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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 - Seperation of release responsibilties

I've been looking at improving the deployment strategy in our department and the latest TFS release management tools look great for this. Allowing multiple release stages, and authorisations for that stage; however but the company I work for has…
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Team Foundation Server 2013 Release Management Scheduled Deployments

With TFS2013's new Release Management, is it possible to deploy at a given date/time, as in scheduled releases. For minimized impact on users in Production, we'd like to be able to deploy during down time (during the night for example).
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Is it possible to use build or release metadata as a configuration parameter in a release template?

Is it possible to use (TFS) build, or (InRelease/Release Management) release metadata - especially e.g. release name, or changeset number - as the value of a configuration variable for an activity in InRelease/TFS Release Management? For example, is…
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Release Management - Continuous Integration

I've configured Release Management to pick up when source is checked in and deploy the code. However, I am having a problem: System.Web.Services.Protocols.SoapException: Server was unable to process request. ---> System.Exception: Package location…
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ERROR: The account running the TFS build service (***\TFSBuildServices) needs to be added as a system user in the Release Management Server

I am getting an error as mentioned below, when triggering the build from TFS to deploy through Release Management aka In Release. *ERROR * The account running the TFS build service (TFSBuildServices) needs to be added as a system user in the Release…
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How can I configure in MS release manager to call a stored procedure as part of automation build deployment

As part build automation I need to execute a stored procedure (on daily basis) from Microsoft Release Manager , what is the best possible way to do it ?
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Multiple continuous deployment triggers in VSTS but not in TFS 2017

We have just recently upgraded from TFS 2015.2.1 to TFS 2017 and were hoping that we get the possibility to have multiple build definitions as a trigger for a release definition. This feature seems to be available for VSTS (according to…
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How can a release be reverted back to the previous one in ms release management 2013?

I have a release template which is triggered from TFS build but if a release fails in release template how can i revert back the deployment with the previous build and previous release.
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Does Microsoft Release Management 2013 needs sysadmin access?

Getting the below error during password change of account in RM 2013 configuration, " User XXX should be a sysadmin for SQL Server Instance YYY to perform the database configuration" I checked with our DBA he has removed sysadmin access for the…
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Visual Studio Team Services: Agents Configuration for different environments in release definition

I am using Visual Studio Team Services, Release management and Continuous integration on the cloud. My release definition contains two environments: Dev and PRO. I want to know what the possible configuration if i don't want to buy a license. we…
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Release management not triggered when setting configuration to Release

I divide this to two issues , but solving any one of them will solve the other. Issue 1: When I use the section at the bottom of the following picture and add "configurations to release", the build is not triggering release management. I queried the…
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TFS 2013 Build definition with dynamic solution count

I am trying to set up a build definition in TFS 2013 which is triggered via CI watching a branches folder. It needs to determine which branches were involved in the checkin which triggered, then compile each and place in the drop…
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Microsoft Release Management 2013 access username of the user triggering the release

I am trying to add a step to execute a powershell script to the release management release template to send customized email on each release. I want to pass in the username of the user who triggered the release, are there any inbuilt variables that…
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Jenkins - Release management integration

we run builds on Jenkins and would like to deploy artifacts using a Microsoft release management (TFS 2017.2). So far seems easy, but the problem is that we use folders within the Jenkins so the Release Management cannot see all jobs and see only…
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How to use Deployment agent with TFS 2015 (update 3)?

I wonder is there possibility to use Microsoft deployment agents with TFS 2015 (update 3) release management? The situation is that client doesn't provides any access to her network (except VPN connection). In that case I can't use WinRM to deploy…
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