Couple of days ago I was trying to provision my Release Definitions variables in my VSTS/TFS projects via PowerShell. As this turned out not to be a trivial Web-Request and as some of the calls I discovered are not yet documented, I decided to share my findings with you. In the following lines I’ll show […]
Introduction If redundancy and performance are the thing you are looking for your TFS application tier setup, for sure you stumbled upon the term Network Load Balancing (NLB). Microsoft describes the benefits of such a setup and prerequisites in the document named How to: Create a Team Foundation server farm (high availability), thus I will […]
Since the version 1.4.0 XL TestView started exposing several functionality via REST API. This is inline with other XebiaLabs products and it is a welcome characteristic. If you tried invoking a web request towards your XL TestView server, you may be surprised that the authentication fails (no matter the usual technique of passing the credentials). […]