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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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WebApp deployment to Azure

I'm trying to deploy a build to Azure WebApp. In Azure (http://manage.windowsazure.com) I linked the web app to my Visual Studio Online(VSTS) account. In VSTS I've created a release definition with a single task (Azure Web App Deployment); the task…
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MS Release Management System Variables

I am using Release Management 2015 and doing Agent deploys. I want to access the TFS Build Number and use it as part of my deployment. The RM documentation says that starting with RM 2013 U4, system variables are available for use. The…
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Release Management Continues Release on Error

I'm using Release Management 2015 along with a vNext release template. It appears that event when components are placed in a single Sequence control flow container, a failure in a component deployment does not stop the deployment. Instead, the…
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Releasing multiple projects for one solution

I have a Visual Studio solution with one SSRS project, two SSIS projects, one SSAS project and one SQL Server project. I'm using TFS2013 Update 4. I'd like to deploy this solution using TFS Release Management in two environments. First environment…
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RM + DSC to node in untrusted domain

So I mention the untrusted domain aspect because I went through all the hoops around credential delegation and trusted hosts lists etc to allow me to successfully push a DSC configuration from my RM server to a target node (not using RM, just native…
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User needs to be granted the Release Manager role to update the existing database

I moved an existing RM database over to a new environment and installed RM. However, when configuring, I get the error, "The User ____ needs to be granted the Release Manager role to update the existing database for Release Management." I had…
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Error in TFS Release Management Server after Upgrading to Update 3

Some weird and unexplained error logged in InRelease aka (Release Management) server event log after upgrading Release Management Update 1 to update 3. Below error started getting logged only after upgrading to Update 3. Even though we started the…
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Release Management vNext component deployment location

Is there a way to modify the target location of the deployments for vNext templates? They all go to the following default location. C:\Windows\DtlDownloads\ComponentName Also, is there a way to acquire the name of the vNext deployment component…
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What do the "Parallel", "Sequence", and "Manual Intervention" actions do?

I would like to learn best practices in creating release template with MS Release Management. What is the use of control flow tools red marked in the below screen?
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Using Microsoft Release Management with Team City

Is it possible to use Microsoft Release Management Server with the build artifact output from a Team City build? And perhaps optionally have Team City trigger the first step in a release? I've only seen documentation which steps though builds with…
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When should I "Release" my builds?

We just started using Visual Studio Release Management for one of our projects, and we're already having some problems with how we are doing things. For now, we've created a single release stage, which is responsible for deploying our build…
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Microsoft Release Management timeout during deploy step

We're using Microsoft's Release Management to deploy our web application to our test environment (QA). It is a straight-forward MVC.Net web application. Our build generates a web deploy package and we have a command script that sets some parameters…
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Using Microsoft Release Management to Deploy Azure Cloud Services

Is there any published guidance for using Release Management (formerly InCycle's InRelease) to deploy Azure Cloud Services? Specifically, I'm interesting in the agent license issues (as you're deploying not via an agent on the machine but via a…
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InRelease- Release Management Licence issue using with TFS2012

We installed the latest version of Release Management from MSDN and connected it to our TFS 2012 Server. The migration to TFS 2013 is scheduled to a later point. After one week we are getting the following error in the logs: License for Release…
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Anyone successfully implemented MS InRelease for automated deployments?

Just looking for feedback on anyone who is currently using InRelease for deployment scenarios in an enterprise application? InRelease has been recently acquired by microsoft and have a trial up there at the…
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