Hello, this is Bryon Surace again. I’m a senior program manager on the Windows virtualization team at Microsoft.
http://blogs.msdn.com/lab_management/archive/2009/10/20/announcing-visual-studio-team-lab-management-2010-beta2.aspx , the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4 beta 2 became available for public download. Part of this release is the Beta 2 version of Visual Studio Team System 2010 Lab Management ; an integrated solution to give you all the benefits of virtualization for application lifecycle management. Congratulations to the Visual Studio Lab Management team for reaching this milestone!
Beta 2 Improvements:
§ Simplified Virtual Environment creation
§ Lab Environment Viewer with full-screen capability
§ Manual and automated testing in virtual environment
§ Build-deploy-test workflow for virtual environments
§ Enhanced workflow process parameters UI and report
§ Network isolation with support for domain controller VMs
§ Setup & Config – verification and auto provisioning of accounts
§ Virtual Machine templates
§ “In-Use” support for shared environments
The main features of Lab Management are:
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Easily manage more complex test configurations
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Lab environment as a first class entity for managing multi-machine test environments
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Setup multiple configurations for testing quickly
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Consistent, reliable access to test environments
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Create multiple copies of test environments for parallel testing
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New “clean” environment in minutes
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Environment snapshot: lightweight and efficient
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Facilitates exploratory testing
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Scheduled build/test cycle on steroids
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Snapshot to clean environment
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Build triggered app deployment
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Testing in more realistic environment
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Rich bugs with environment snapshot
- reduce the number of no-repro bugs
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx – you can download all the required components from there. This https://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4/10-4-Episode-33-Downloading-and-Installing-Visual-Studio-2010-Beta-2/ can guide you through the download and installation process of TFS. And check out the http://blogs.msdn.com/lab_management/ .
Thank you,
Bryon Surace
