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Release Management Client for Visual Studio 2013 Requirements and Licenses


We are trying to figure out if we can make use of Release Management for our Continuous Integration / Continuous Deployment needs.

It says that the Release Management Client requires VS 2013 Premium/Ultimate/Test. Does it mean it's only the person who is configuring the build needs to have such version and other developers can still use their VS 2013 Pro?

Does the Release Management Server for TFS 2013 has it's own license which is different from Microsoft Deployment Agent 2013?

Does the product now supports Visual Studio Online? If it helps, we have a TFS proxy and build server in-house.

Thanks


Solution

  • To answer the only technical question you asked: Release Management does not support Visual Studio Online at the moment.

    You can read the licensing information here, which pretty clearly answers the questions you have: http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/products/how-to-buy-release-management-vs.aspx