Repost: What I learnt extending my VSTS Release Process to on-premises Lab Management Network Isolated Environments
This a a repost of a guest article first posted on the Microsoft UK Developers Blog: How to extend a VSTS release process to on-premises Note that since I write the original post there have been some changes on VSTS and the release to TFS 2015.2 RC1. These mean there is no longer an option to pull build artifacts from the an external TFS server as part of a release; so invalidating some of the options this post discusses. I have struck out the outdated sections. The rest of the post is still valid, especially the section on where to update configuration settings. The release of TFS 2015.2 RC1 actually makes many of options easier as you don’t have to bridge between on premises TFS and VSTS as both build and release features are on the same server. ...