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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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Build not set indefinitely by RM

The combination of XAML build definition that is triggering a release was setting the build to be retained indefinitely. The new non-XAML build doesn't get set to be retained indefinitely by the TFS RM releases. Am I missing something or I have to…
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The item MY_ARTIFACT_NAME in container XXX could not be found

When attempting to configure MS Release Manager based on the tutorial Deploying your applications to Azure, modified per Error when using Publish Build Artifacts on the host agent, I receive the following exception: The item MY_ARTIFACT_NAME in…
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What permissions are required for a Release Management 2013 vNext release using Powershell

I've configured the deployment to a web server using a service account. On the target machine remote powershell is enabled and the account has been added to the Remote Management Users group. I initiate a release and the following error occurs. If I…
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TFS to Release Management - Release from Build

I am so close yet so far from getting my Visual Studio (MVC) application released through TFS & Release Management. I am using Version 2013 and have my build definition setup as follows: As you can see it is using the TfvcTemplate.12.xaml as its…
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Issue deploying SSRS reports with Release Management

We are trying to use Microsoft Release Management 2013 Update 4 to deploy our SSRS reports. The problem we are having is when using the Reporting Services Deployer tool there is the -o option which states "Brute force item replacement by deleting…
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Release Management 2015 with TFS 2015 Build vNext

We are trying to use Release Management for Visual Studio 2015 and Team Foundation Server 2015 to build and eventually deploy from our Code System to our QA System. We have defined 2 different types of builds in TFS 2015 (The new scriptable build…
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TFS 2013 Release Management Client not communicating with Server

I am trying to configure Release Management Client to work with a Release Management Server for Microsoft TFS 2013 on a Windows Server 2008 R2 Standard. I installed (without any errors) the following two from our subscription…
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What is the difference between a component, tool, and action in Release Management 2015?

I'm trying to use Release Management as the tooling to build releases, but I'm having a hard time understanding what the difference between a component, tool, and action really are. Can someone break down the differences between these three concepts…
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How to connect to Release Management to TFS when both TFS and Release Management servers are on different network

I have a following setup: TFS and Release Management Server are setup on different servers (not in same network) TFS in DOMAIN1 RM Server in DOMAIN2 (totally separate/untrusted from DOMAIN1) RM Server is connected to TFS using DOMAIN1\RMService…
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Release Management Azure Website

How can I publish to an Azure Website (NO VM!) using Microsoft Release Management. At the moment, ms release management only seems to support deploying to Azure VM's. I like MS Release Management system as it lets me control my deployment…
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Release Management timeout after two hours during a "deploy using PS" action

At my work, we use Release Management (Visual Studio 2013) to deploy various websites, webservices, winservices and databases through the use of "Deploy Using PS/DSC" PowerShell scripts. Since we don't have direct access to our database servers, we…
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Deploy using VSO RM to Azure Linux with PS/DSC

I have setup a Linux Srv in Azure with OMI/PSDCS and trying to deploy with VSO Release Management. I have created an Azure environment (I won't allow mw to create a Standard Env) and solved all certificate issues so far. Now it's failing because RM…
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Release Management for Visual Studio 2013 - Release Exception

Getting the following error after a successful MsBuild on a TFS Build Server: ERROR: Value cannot be null. Parameter name: The attribute 'BuildNumber' is not part of this XElement at…
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How to deploy with Release Management to remote datacenter

We are running TFS and Release Management on premises, and i want to deploy my applications to a remote datacenter. Access is over the internet, so there is no windows shares available. I am using the vNext templates, and afaik RM seems to only…
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Release Management for Visual Studio - How pipeline works with DEV/QA/Production Branches?

We have separate TFS 2012 branches setup for each environment (DEV/QA/PROD). Changes are checked-in to DEV branch which triggers a release via RM for Visual Studio 2013 Update 4 to the DEV server. Current release template has Build Definition from…
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