Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 goes RTM by the end of month. Also available will be rollup of TFS fixes/updates since its RTM

bharry's WebLog - Lab Management News

“There’s some exciting news about Visual Studio Lab Management today.  You may recall that when we released VS/TFS 2010, we declared the Lab Management capability to be “Release Candidate” quality rather then “Released” quality.  I’ve mentioned before that the reason for this was that we just hadn’t gotten enough customer feedback to feel really confident that it was 100% ready for prime time.  In truth, it really wasn’t usable in Beta 1.  In Beta 2, it wasn’t bad but it relied on adoption of TFS and the new Visual Studio Test Professional capabilities and we just didn’t see enough people get that far before VS was ready to release.  Over the past several months, we’ve been working with early adopters, diagnosing any issues they hit and fixing all the bugs.  In all we’ve fixed a few dozen since the Release Candidate.

And the great news is it’s now ready for the big leagues! :)  So, announcement #1 today at VSLive! (in Dave Mendlen’s keynote) is that Visual Studio Lab Management will “RTM” by the end of August.  There will be an update available that can be applied to your TFS server, your Test Professional client and any build/lab agents that are installed.  This patch includes not only all of the Lab Management fixes but also all of the TFS improvements that we’ve made since release (I blogged a list of them here).  It's a single patch to update all of your installs and it’s such a useful patch, we are exploring putting it on Microsoft Update as an optional update to make it even easier to discover and install. [GD: Emphasis added] …”

… I mentioned the other day in a post that we have a lot of stuff coming out this summer.  Last week I talked about the roll up QFE for TFS, yesterday I talked about VS LightSwitch, today Lab Management and we’re not done yet.  There’s more I’ll be talking about in the coming weeks.  Keep your seat belt buckled.

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Nice. We’re in the process of moving to TFS2010 and Lab Management is one of the things we’re including (we’re in the hardware acquisition phase right now) so the timing on this is great… I am looking forward to using this in my day to day world.

 

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