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Microsoft Release Management is a tool that allows you to automate the release and deployment cycle of software. It is part of Visual Studio / Team Foundation Server 2013 and beyond.

Microsoft Release Management was originally a tool called InRelease, created by InCycle Software. Microsoft acquired the tool in mid-2013 and integrated it into Visual Studio / Team Foundation Server 2013.

The software consists of three components:

  1. A server
  2. A client
  3. A deployer agent

Using the client, you connect to your release management server and configure what applications you're deploying, how they should be deployed, and what servers they should be deployed to. In addition, you can specify who within your organization is responsible for approving each stage of your release.

This application has been deprecated as of 2015. It is no longer receiving new features or updates, and has been entirely replaced by Azure Pipelines.

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TFS Release Management - Monitoring a build drop location, or scheduling a release

Is it possible to schedule a recurring release from within Release Management? I'd like to be able to step away from RM and have it automatically push a release using the latest build from the path's specified build drop location. Also - is it…
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How can I change the default temp directory used by Release Management Server 2013 Release 4

Release Management Server defaults to the system drive in the current users local temp directory. I was scanning through its various configuration files but I could not seem to figure out if you can repoint its working directory to another drive.…
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How to access tfs variables from a component using a custom powershell script for Visual Studio Release Management 2013 Release 4.0

My version of Visual Studio 2013 Release Management Client/Server is Release 4.0. I am using the ReleaseTfvcTemplate.12.xaml template. Is there any way to access the system variables from a release management component (deployer configuration) when…
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Release Management Tokenization - how to access Build number as a Token within Component

The footer of my application currently contains Release information that is set in the web config. Right now, after every release, I manually update this config value to REL 2.0.1 or 2.0.3, etc. The build that we use in our RM path is always named…
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Deployment agent connection error in release management :Received Exception : System.UnauthorizedAccessException

I am trying to connect my Deployment agent to RM client from different domain. I created a shadow account and all other .Still it is not working. I am able to connect with same domain. My RM client and server is in same machine (VM). and my…
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How do I use global configuration variables within "Action" arguments?

After setting up a copy of the Inventory > Actions > Deploy Using PS/DSC (Standard Server) action I can't figure out how to use a global configuration variable in the argument list. The global variables I would like to use: (from Administration >…
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Agent based release templates, hard coded values configurable?

My Release templates consists of couple of hard coded values like Installation Path, documents folder paths etc. To create a new template, i need to change those values in so many places and it's very time consuming for bigger templates. I have…
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Connect Deployment Agent to Visual Studio Online if not part of domain

I'm installing the Microsoft Deployment Agent 2013 onto an Azure VM. In order to connect to my Release Management Server ( Visual Studio Online in my case ) I need to authenticate either as local system or with a custom account: So with my…
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How to create a folder with a date or build number using Agent-based template in MS Release Management

Using agent-based release templates, not vNext, how do I configure a "Create Folder" item so that it incorporates the date into the folder name, e.g. "C:\inetpub\wwwroot\backups\MyApp\02-03-2015\". Preferably, I would like the build number instead…
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Error on create Release from build

I am trying setup Release Management with TFS 2013 using build template "ReleaseTfvcTemplate.12.xaml" but when I set up to carry out the release occurs the following error: "ERROR: The account running the TFS build service (Domain\User) needs to be…
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How change default value drop folder in Release Management

I'm configuring Release Management 2013, I search issue: My TFS create drop folder like this: \ServerName\DropFolder\Project\Project_20141230.1 But when I start release in Release Management, It try search in this drop folder:…
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MS Release Management upgrade from 3 to 4

I am using Release Management Update 3 with TFS 2013. I would like to upgrade to Release Management Update 4. Questions Do i need to uninstall and install new set up of RM update 4? I have my release templates and other settings in my current…
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Continuous delivery with Microsoft Release Management

I'm doing a graduation project where I'm supposed to automate the deploy cyclus within the company I'm working. The tool they want to use is Microsoft Release Management. However, when i look further into the features that Release Management has,…
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How do I export and import Release Management 2013 templates

Is there any way to import / export a release manager 2013 template? I can't seem to find anything (other than backing up the whole database) and we'd like to have some means of rolling back to a previous version of a template (or at least comparing…
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MS Release management data release to multiple databases

I am using DACPAC deployer to deploy my DB schema using MS Release management and TFS build.I have some configuration tables and the data in these tables should be synchronized with each destination DBs. A data script file is added in my SSDT…
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