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2019 1

  1. Next chapter

2018 37

  1. Follow the ALM | DevOps Ranger blogs and twitter feeds
  2. Kanban Board Tools Extension Now Available
  3. Modern Security- & Load-Testing with VSTS when bound to on-premises
  4. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Shimail Gillani
  5. VSTS Gems - Preview Features
  6. Announcing the deprecation of a number of guidance and tools
  7. VSTS Gems - Analytics Extention #1 - Analytical widgets
  8. Refreshed VC, VSTS, and DevOps articles and a call for feedback!
  9. Recent work on the Countdown Widget for VSTS
  10. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Art Garcia
  11. VSTS Gems- Chain related builds
  12. Yet another CI/CD post - Java, Apache spark, Cloudera, Azure and TFS
  13. VSTS Gems - Marketplace, the one stop location for added functionality
  14. Our April champion is Mikael Krief … again … for his continued passion to deliver value to our users
  15. How we checked and fixed the 503 error and Performance issue in our Azure Function
  16. devconf’s log #3 – Sessions, Cubes, and lots of collaboration
  17. devconf discussions – What is DevOps?
  18. devconf discussions – Feature Flags
  19. VSTS Gems- Release gates
  20. How we deliver the DevOps VSTS Bot
  21. We have an idea … now what?
  22. VSTS Gems - Manual step in release management pipelines
  23. VSTS Gems- Identify stale branches
  24. Post 2- Value Stream Mapping for ALM Ranger’s VSTS Extensions Work Stream
  25. How to analyze your open source project with SonarCloud and VSTS
  26. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Oren Novotny
  27. VSTS Gems- Branch filters in environment triggers
  28. VSTS Gems- Identify flaky tests
  29. Office UI Fabric for VSTS Extensions – Converting Existing Extensions
  30. Updates from the DevOps VSTS Bot
  31. VSTS Gems- Three ways to beef up your boards
  32. Value Stream Mapping for our VSTS Extensions
  33. VSTS Gems- Skip scheduled builds if nothing has changed in the repo
  34. Using the NavigationService in your VSTS and TFS extension
  35. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Jose DelaCruz
  36. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Michael Thomsen
  37. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Richie Lee

2017 79

  1. Feature Flags Performance Testing
  2. Roll-up Board Widget goes wide
  3. Roll-Up Board widget extension supports feature flags
  4. Office UI Fabric for VSTS Extensions – Extension Time
  5. Office UI Fabric for VSTS Extensions – a few moving bits
  6. Office UI Fabric for VSTS Extensions – Typescript tools
  7. Office UI Fabric for VSTS Extensions – Getting Started
  8. Office UI Fabric for VSTS Extensions
  9. How do I roll-back a VSTS extension when I am using a CI/CD pipeline?
  10. Our journey to WhiteSource and OSS security, licensing and quality checking
  11. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Geoff Gray
  12. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Ken Muse
  13. VSTS Bot is now in Preview
  14. Azure Functions – Integrating monitoring with Application Insights
  15. Empowering the community with our OSS projects
  16. Azure Functions – CI / CD DevOps Pipeline
  17. Roll-up your backlog board on your dashboards
  18. Azure Function - Integration tests automation
  19. Our September champion is Jeffrey Opdam, for his passion for the VSTS–Bot
  20. How do I report an extension issue effectively?
  21. Please uninstall our deprecated extensions!
  22. Why we’re using AWS, not Azure, to store our OSS releases
  23. Azure Function - Provisioning and configuring our Azure Function infrastructure
  24. Azure Functions - Prepare for continuous delivery
  25. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Jesse Powell
  26. Deprecating our Folder Management extension
  27. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Lia Keston
  28. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Henry Been
  29. How Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) makes an enterprise agile
  30. Our journey of a continuous transformation to a DevOps culture
  31. Resolution for WhiteSource “Unhandled: error is not defined” and “where’s my project” issues in our CI/CD pipelines
  32. Building VSTS Extensions with feature flags – Part 3
  33. Meet your hidden enemy- FOBO
  34. Building VSTS Extensions with feature flags – Part 2
  35. Our June champion is Edward Fry, for his passionate analysis of our transition
  36. A really COOL feature we noticed on VSTS – New Release Definition Editor
  37. Building VSTS Extensions with feature flags
  38. Visualize the health of your CI/CD pipelines
  39. Help us refine our extensibility focus and energy from gap filling to enablement
  40. What is in the latest releases of the VSTS extension generator?
  41. Manage your open source usage and security as reported by your CI/CD pipeline
  42. How to integrate Application Insights monitoring in your VSTS extension
  43. How to create or upgrade your VSTS extension in 4 steps
  44. Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Champion of Champions 2017 award
  45. Our April champion is Mikael Krief, for his tenacity and passion with the generator-vsts-extension
  46. Debug Yeoman team-services-extension in 5 steps
  47. Setup a CI/CD pipeline with package management for your VSTS extension
  48. Where can I find the Visual Studio ALM Ranger bits? Bookmark one URL!
  49. Breakpoint Generator extension is open source
  50. Set up a CI/CD pipeline with unit testing and code coverage for your VSTS extension
  51. What we delivered in latest releases of the VSTS extension generator
  52. Introducing the ALM | DevOps Rangers – VSTS Bot
  53. Set up a CI/CD pipeline to run automated tests efficiently
  54. Set up a CI/CD pipeline for your VSTS extension
  55. Set up a CI/CD pipeline for your Yeoman generator package
  56. How to implement feature flags and A|B testing
  57. Roadmap for the generator-vsts-extension
  58. Why we broke generator-vsts-ext and created generator-team-services-extension
  59. Authoring our guidance in the open … valuable? … will you engage with authors?
  60. Generate Team Services extension starter kit with the Yeoman generator VSTS-EXT
  61. Team Services extensions update + a call for your help!
  62. Visualize the health of your builds – latest sneak preview of the Team Project Health extension
  63. Our January champion is Chris Mason – for energetically pushing the project train into motion
  64. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Wennder dos Santos
  65. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – David Kalmin
  66. Effective feature isolation with TFVC – what do you think of the work-in-progress sandbox?
  67. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Jeffrey Opdam
  68. Our December 2016 champ is Mattias Sköld for running circles around our extensions
  69. We’re discussing a common VC question – to fork or not to fork a Git repository
  70. Visualize the health of your builds - a sneak preview of the Team Project Health extension
  71. Offline Test Execution
  72. Announcing Version 1.0 of SonarQube ARM Template
  73. Announcing Version 1.0 of SonarQube ARM Template
  74. Contributing to the VSTS Developer Tools Build Tasks extension
  75. Manage your open source usage and security in your pipeline
  76. Importing from JIRA to VSTS
  77. We’d like to hear what you think of our Ranger program
  78. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Chris Boretos
  79. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Nandu Muralidharan

2016 77

  1. Sending Email Notification from VSTS/TFS Build
  2. Rub on a little DevOps in Portugal - Event Summary
  3. Testing a Team Services extension and tracking code coverage
  4. Early Overview: Kanban Board Configuration Export Extension
  5. DevOps sticker or (temporary) tattoo?
  6. Sharing our experience of self-organizing teams
  7. VSS Web Extensions SDK Update (version 1.108.0) - Breaking Changes
  8. Where are we in Donovan’s [from 0 to DevOps] world?
  9. Our November 2016 champ is Hosam Kamel for making an impact on numerous (most) projects
  10. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Rolf Huisman
  11. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Prasanna Ramkumar
  12. Visual Studio ALM Rangers em Portugal / Português
  13. The secret sauce to managing our backlog and TODO lists
  14. Our October 2016 champ is Steve St Jean with his ARM template for a Secure SonarQube installation project
  15. Are you looking for our articles, guidance, samples, tools, or videos?
  16. Why we love being early warning Canaries
  17. Artifacts and guidance for Azure DevTest Labs
  18. Getting started with DevTest Labs Custom Artifact Development
  19. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Brian A. Randell
  20. Easily deploy SonarQube Server in Azure
  21. Understanding Lead and Cycle Time with our part-time community
  22. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Shmulik Ahituv
  23. Our August 2016 champ is Taavi Kõosaar with his Work Item Visualization extension
  24. Application Insights tokenization for Visual Studio Team Services extensions
  25. Switch from push to pull communication
  26. Transformation from a secret society to a community
  27. Do You Have What It Takes To Be a Ranger?
  28. Pin a detailed view of your work item(s) on your dashboard
  29. Extensions for TFS and Team Services on the marketplace
  30. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Igor Rosa Macedo
  31. Why are we open sourcing our extensions?
  32. Why are extensions requesting permissions to access resources?
  33. See how many build minutes are being used by users, build definitions, and team projects with the Build Usage extension
  34. Extension updates to add feedback section and squash more bugs
  35. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Rodrigo Antunes
  36. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Chris Mason
  37. The new Branching Guidance for Team Foundation Server, Team Services, and others
  38. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Jonas Weibel
  39. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Daniel van der Starre
  40. Release Management Workflow Migrator v1
  41. Release notes for the latest tools and extensions (aka.ms/vsarreleases)
  42. Why is my work item not showing up on the board or in an unexpected swimlane?
  43. Raspberry Pi2 Codify Build Lighting up the Microsoft Vancouver (aka.ms/mvbuildlight)
  44. Roll-up your backlog board and display an aggregated view on your dashboards
  45. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Gregory Ott
  46. Sample Data gets you started with Agile and SAFe on Visual Studio Team Services
  47. Running SonarQube behind an IIS Reversed Proxy
  48. TFVC Branch Hierarchy Visualization extension revised
  49. What do you think of our definition of done (DoD) for Extensions? (aka.ms/vsarDoD)
  50. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Kees Verhaar
  51. I need an on-prem version of the Visual Studio Team Services extension!
  52. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Derek Keeler
  53. Planning … it’s all about people!
  54. A really COOL feature we noticed on Visual Studio Team Services … boards becomes alive
  55. Two COOL features we noticed on Visual Studio Team Services … welcome Testers!
  56. Latest Folder Management extension closes our oldest extension debt
  57. File owner extension
  58. Azure Active Directory (AAD) Authentication Plug-in for SonarQube
  59. TFVC Branch Visualization extension
  60. Sample data widget
  61. Our first steps of embracing DevOps when building Visual Studio Team Services Extensions
  62. Three COOL features we noticed on Visual Studio Team Services
  63. Ranger Jan-Feb 2016 Flash – Welcome new guidance and widgets!
  64. Print cards v2 extension
  65. Show area path dependencies extension
  66. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Kevin Mack
  67. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Ed Elliott
  68. What do you think of the new crisp and practical guidance?
  69. Publishing widgets
  70. Issues and resolving them
  71. Developing the widget
  72. Getting started with widgets
  73. What happened when the Test Case Explorer extension hit turbulence
  74. Visual Studio ALM Rangers - Champion Awards 2016
  75. Folder Management Extension v1.1.4 published, by Wouter de Kort
  76. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Sohail Tahir
  77. Ranger December 2015 Flash – Last deliverables before rebooting into the new year

2015 68

  1. Continuous Testing - A practical guide with concepts and approaches
  2. Extensions 101 – Attempting to visualize the main processing flow
  3. Extensions 101 – But it worked yesterday … now what?!?
  4. Print Cards journal is now included with the source code
  5. Release Management Workflow Migrator
  6. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Paymon Parsadmehr
  7. Three COOL features we noticed on Visual Studio Team Services
  8. Ranger November 2015 Flash – Surfacing after two really busy (behind the scenes) months
  9. Explore the “Surface Owner” VSTS Extension - 2. Fix the scope using a storyboard
  10. What do you think of changes to our tooling and guidance solutions page?
  11. Visual Studio Team Services Extensions from the Rangers
  12. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Edward Fry
  13. Automated testing implemented at Universidad Rafael Landívar
  14. Ranger September 2015 Flash – The start of content alignment and discoverability.
  15. Two more COOL features we noticed on the Visual Studio Online Kanban board
  16. Version Control Guidance – Frequently Asked Questions
  17. Version Control Walkthrough (TFVC) Part 4 – Explore the diff and merge tools
  18. Version Control Walkthrough (TFVC) Part 3 – Use the local workspace in offline mode
  19. Version Control Walkthrough (TFVC) Part 2 – Use the local workspace in online mode
  20. Version Control Walkthrough (TFVC) Part 1 – Create a new local workspace
  21. Explore the “Surface Owner” VSO Extension - 1. Getting started
  22. Version Control Walkthrough (Branching Strategies) Part 5 - Servicing & Release Isolation
  23. Version Control Walkthrough (Branching Strategies) Part 4 - Release Isolation … audit alarm
  24. Version Control Walkthrough (Branching Strategies) Part 2 - Development Isolation … welcome branching
  25. Version Control Walkthrough (Branching Strategies) Part 1 - MAIN Only and Simplicity Rules
  26. Version Control Guidance – Alternative Branching Strategies
  27. ¿Habla Español? … Git para usuarios de TFVC
  28. Why you should not DELETE after a MOVE if history is important to you!
  29. Flash August 2015 – Resuming adventures after a warm summer break
  30. Introducing the team – Oleksandr Shamrai
  31. Publishing Visual Studio Online extensions within the preview
  32. Folder Management Extension and our “Ninja Geek”
  33. TFS Upgrade - Post Upgrade Checklist
  34. TFS Upgrade - Long Lead Checklist
  35. TFS Upgrade - Long Lead Preparations
  36. TFS Upgrade - Short Lead Checklist
  37. TFS Upgrade - New Elements of TFS 2015 that influence an upgrade
  38. Flash July 2015 – Summer break with a sprinkle of readiness events and other spices
  39. Introducing the team – Igor Shcheglovitov
  40. Learn how to implement the DevOps model of expedited software development
  41. Test Planning and Management Guide - Updated
  42. Version Control Guidance – Visuals to decorate your office wall or hide cracks in the wall resembling complex branches
  43. Five more COOL features we noticed on Visual Studio Online today
  44. Flash June 2015 - The first extension has landed
  45. Folder Management – Visual Studio Online Extension, by Wouter De Kort
  46. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Etienne Tremblay
  47. Integrating SonarQube and Reporting Services, by Vinicius Moura
  48. Flash May 2015 – Wave of innovation and happy anniversary!
  49. The end of Version Control Guidance? A pinch of nostalgia and future plans.
  50. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Mikael Krief
  51. Seven major checkpoints involved in starting an ALM Rangers project – Checklist
  52. Seven COOL features we noticed on Visual Studio Online today
  53. VSO Status Inspector – A walk through on creating a Visual Studio extension to track VSO Status, by Utkarsh Shigihalli
  54. Visual Studio ALM Ranger Champion Awards 2015
  55. Rolling triages and fire-and-forget projects enable us to increase responsiveness and diversity
  56. More formats for “Managing agile open-source software projects with Microsoft Visual Studio Online” eBook
  57. Custom champ t-shirt for Jim Szubryt
  58. Ranger Flash April 2015 - Gearing up to major events and the project rename
  59. Kudos and custom champ t-shirts for Hosam, Josh, Mattias and Vladimir!
  60. Extracting effective permissions from TFS - sample update v1.2
  61. What do you like and dislike with the latest Version Control guidance?
  62. Understanding the Visual Studio ALM Rangers
  63. Library of tooling and guidance solutions (aka.ms/vsarsolutions)
  64. How to raise an idea on UserVoice
  65. Introducing the team (aka.ms/vsarindex)
  66. VS and TFS community widgets (aka.ms/widgets)
  67. Library of videos and publications (aka.ms/vsarpublications)
  68. Champion awards (aka.ms/vsarchampions)

2012 1

  1. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Taavi Kõosaar

2009 1

  1. Under Construction