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Release Management for Visual Studio - Not Working


Anybody able to successfully install/configure Release Management Server for TFS/Visual Studio 2013?

Went through simple install of SQL Express 2014/Release Management Server on both Win 8.1 Pro and Win Server 2012 R2 and the attached image is the result.

Interface appears to be missing many components, as if permission or some other IIS setting is incorrect.

Tried in both Chrome and IE with the same result.

Used default install settings (Network Service account) and currently running SQL Express on same machine as Release Management install.

Release Management Screenshot


Solution

  • This is the interface for RM's Release Explorer and it does look like that, unbelievable as it may seem. All this will change with new RM components in TFS 2015 - check out Donovon Brown's talk at Build 2015 for a preview.

    Back to the root of your issue, which is that Release Explorer is only a minor part of the RM stack. Have you installed the RM client (a WPF application) which is the main interface for configuring RM? My continuous delivery with TFS blog post series here has all the details you need.