Course:

Course Description

The course covers creating and managing your organization’s VSTS account as well as how to add users and manage licenses. It looks at security and setting up your source control repositories. You’ll learn how to work with both hosted build/release infrastructure as well as using on-premises build/release agents.

Finally, the course looks at the new process templates and how to customize them to meet your team’s needs.

This course combines both technical presentations as well as hands-on lab exercises designed to ensure attendees gain a solid, practical understanding of how to administer VSTS for modern software development teams.

Outline

Module 1: Setting Up a VSTS Account

Creating a VSTS account
Changing account owner
Renaming your account
Delete or recover account
Connecting clients to VSTS
Integration with Azure Active Directory
Understanding account billing

Module 2: Creating and Managing Team Projects

Creating team projects
Renaming and deleting team projects
Understanding and configuring teams
Configuring notifications

Module 3: Configuring Users and Security

Overview of VSTS security
Adding or removing users in your VSTS account
Configuring security using team project groups
Fine-grain security options

Module 4: Source Control Configuration

Creating and managing repositories
Cloning a GIT repository
Importing source code into a TFVC repository

Module 5: Process Customization

Understanding process templates
Understanding inherited templates
Basics of template customization
Adding modifying fields
Customizing a work item form
Creating a custom work item type

Module 6: Build Automation

Overview of build infrastructure
Overview of hosted build services
Installing and configuring private build agents
Scaling your build infrastructure

Module 7: Managing Extensions

Introduction to the marketplace
Approving extensions
Installing extensions

Audience

This course is designed for team members responsible for the configuration and administration of their organization’s VSTS account.

What You Will Learn

At the completion of this course, attendees will be able to:

Manage a VSTS account
Create and manage team projects
Configure teams
Add/remove users and assigned licenses
Configure appropriate security
Manage source control repositories
Configure build/release using a hosted agent pool
Install and configure on-premises agent pools
Install extensions from the Visual Studio Marketplace
Understand the new process template model
Implement work item customizations

ALMAV: Azure DevOps Configuration and Administration (Formerly VSTS)