Azure DevOps Configuration & Admin. (Formerly VSTS)

This course is designed for organizations that are adopting Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and need staff skilled in how to configure and administer their VSTS account.

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.

Course Objectives:

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

Audience

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

Pre-requisites

Attendees should be familiar with Visual Studio and have used Visual Studio Team Services.

Modules

• Module 1: Setting Up a VSTS Account
• Module 2: Creating and Managing Team Projects
• Module 3: Configuring Users and Security
• Module 4: Source Control Configuration
• Module 5: Process Customization
• Module 6: Managing build and release resources
• Module 7: Managing Extensions