The Team Foundation Server Administration workshop is a four-day instructor-led training course that provides participants with a wide range of technical information about the Visual Studio ALM tools, and specifically, how Team Foundation Server provides a fundamental point of integration for the entire suite of development tools and technologies. After the course, participants will have a deeper understanding of how to leverage Team Foundation Server to maximize team collaboration, promote project transparency, and enable development processes to ensure the highest quality software
TARGET AUDIENCE:
This workshop includes content targeted at several different roles in the development lifecycle, including TFS administrators, infrastructure administrators, database administrators, release managers, and project managers. This workshop contains 300-level deep technical content, and requires a working knowledge of Windows Server, SQL Server, and Team Foundation Server
BUSINESS NEEDS:
This course is useful for organizations that use Team Foundation Server to maximize team collaboration, project transparency and software quality.
BENEFITS:
After the course, participants will have a deeper understanding of how to leverage Team Foundation Server to maximize team collaboration, promote project transparency, and enable development processes to ensure the highest quality software.
SYLLABUS:
This workshop runs a full four days. Students should anticipate consistent start and end times for each day. Early departure on any day is not recommended.
Module 01: Overview – Visual Studio ALM tools overview, Visual Studio edition comparison, Team Foundation Server features
Module 02: Version Control – Workspace and shelveset administration, file synchronization and locking, check-in polices, permissions, Branching and merging
Module 03Team Foundation Build – Build controllers and agents, Build process/ reports, MS Build basics, Build verification tests, Gated check-ins, private builds
Module 04: Work Item Tracking – Work item administration, Work item queries, Link types, Work Item Type customization, MS Office integration
Module 05: Team Projects – Team Project portal / dashboards, Process Template customization
Module 06: Security – Group and permissions, Version control security, Distributed services
Module 07: TFS Architecture – Concepts, Team Project Collections, Deployment scenarios, Distributed services
Module 08: Disaster Recovery – Planning, Clustering, Virtualization
Module 09: Configuration – Administration Console, Command-line Tools, Team foundation Power Tools
PRE-REQUISITES:
This workshop contains 300-level deep technical content, and requires a basic working knowledge of Windows Server, SQL Server, and Team Foundation Server.
Product
Team Foundation Server 2010
Duration 4 days
Level 300
119
Visual Studio 2010 ALM Testing Techniques Workshop
The VS 2010 ALM Testing Techniques workshop is a three-day instructor-led training course that provides participants with a wide range of technical information about the Visual Studio 2010 Test Tooling, and specifically, how the integrated tool suite provided in Visual Studio can help testers and developers create and manage robust test suites throughout the Software Development Life Cycle. After the course, participants will have a deeper understanding of how to leverage Visual Studio to thoroughly test their applications and services with the rich set of tooling in Visual Studio 2010.
TARGET AUDIENCE:
This workshop includes content targeted mainly towards testers and software developers who wish to learn scenarios and best practices with Visual Studio 2010. This workshop contains 300-level deep technical content, and prefers that attendees have a working knowledge of Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server.
BUSINESS NEEDS:
This course is useful for organizations that use Visual Studio Team System Test Edition for application development testing and want to learn how to fully leverage the capabilities of the product.
BENEFITS:
After the course, participants will have a deeper understanding of how to use Visual Studio 2010 and the integrated tool suite to help drive quality software development through robust testing techniques.
SYLLABUS:
This workshop runs a full three days. Students should anticipate consistent start and end times for each day. Early departure on any day is not recommended.
Module 1: Overview – Visual Studio 2010 Testing Overview, SKU overview
Module 2: Tester Types - Understanding a Testers Types in Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2010 Test Tools
Module 3: Organizing Tests – Test Project, Test Suites & Test Cases, Test Configuration, Test Reporting/ Tracking Software Quality
Module 4: Manual Testing – Manual Test Work items, Shared Steps, Manual Test Runner, Recorded Actions
Module 5: Coded UI Testing – Recorder, Validation, Techniques, Recorded Actions
Module 6: Web Performance Testing – Validation & Extraction Rules, Components of a Web Test, Data Driven Web Testing
Module 7: Load Testing – Load Testing & Web Tests, Load Testing & Unit Tests, Load Test Results Management, Load Agents/Virtual Users
Module 8: Additional Test Types – Unit Tests, Generic Tests, Ordered Test
Module 9: Visual Studio Lab Management – Lab Manager Overview, Creating & working with Environments, Test Automation
Module 10: Team Build – Team Build Overview, Test automation & Team Build
PRE-REQUISITES:
This workshop contains 300-level deep technical content and prefers that attendees have a working knowledge of Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server.
Product Visual Studio 2010
Duration 3 days
Level 300
120
Windows 7 Application Compatibility for Enterprises Workshop
Windows 7 offers improved security and a greatly enhanced user experience through improvement of existing features and the introduction of many new ones.
Overall, Windows 7 is highly compatible with most of the applications written for Microsoft® Windows® XP, Microsoft Windows Server™ 2003, and their service packs; however due to new innovations and tightening of security designed to increase reliability, some compatibility issues are inevitable.
Windows 7 Application Compatibility for Enterprises Workshop is designed to assist enterprise customers to identify and overcome application compatibility issues that are barriers to deployment of Windows 7.
TARGET AUDIENCE:
Customer development teams who are preparing to test applications which are required to run on Windows 7.
BUSINESS NEEDS:
Enterprise customers preparing to upgrade to Windows 7 and who are running or developing critical line of business software that should be tested for compatibility prior to deployment.
BENEFITS:
Provide enterprise customers with the training they need to assess compatibility between their applications and Windows 7, and to provide solutions to some of the more common compatibility issues.
Teach enterprise customers the best practices for detecting and resolving certain known issues related to Windows 7 compatibility.
SYLLABUS:
Day 1 – Windows Application Compatibility Fundamentals
During Day 1, you will learn to recognize, understand, and troubleshoot the most common compatibility issues and those issues that present the greatest barriers to deployment of Windows 7. We will cover User Account Control (UAC), Windows Resource Protection (WRP), Session 0 Isolation, OS and IE8 Versioning problems, and more. The first day is designed to help you learn to recognize at least 80% of the compatibility issues you may encounter.
Day 2 – Windows Application Compatibility Tools and Techniques
During Day 2, we will introduce you to ACT 5.5, Standard User Analyzer, LUA Buglight, Shims and other tools and techniques to help you diagnose and begin to resolve most application compatibility issues with Windows 7. You should come away with an understanding of how to choose and use the right tools for different scenarios. You will also get some hands on practice and the resources you will need to start helping your customers or testing your applications right away.
PRE-REQUISITES:
This workshop contains 300-level deep technical content, and requires that attendees have a working knowledge of developing and running applications on Windows operating systems.
Product Windows 7
Duration 2 days
Level 300
121
Windows Communication Foundation Workshop
Windows Communication Foundation is a set of .Net Framework 3.5 technologies for building and running connected systems.
It is a new breed of communications infrastructure built around the Web services architecture. Advanced Web services support in Windows Communication Foundation provides secure, reliable, and transacted messaging along with interoperability.
Messaging is not restricted to HTTP transport, but it can also use TCP, Net Named Pipes, MSMQ, Peer Channel, or custom transports.
TARGET AUDIENCE:
The workshop includes content targeted at developers and architects developing distributed applications.
BUSINESS NEEDS:
This course is useful for organizations and teams that are creating distributed application, Web Services and SOA systems.
BENEFITS:
Working with a trained Microsoft delivery consultant, customer‘s development team will gain valuable skills in developing WCF solutions through 4 days of lectures, demonstrations, hands on labs, and Q&A.
SYLLABUS:
WCF.Net 3.5 Workshop Course Outline:
WCF Introduction and Programming Model
WCF Hosting
WCF Management
WCF Reliability / Queuing / Transactions
WCF Migration, Interop, Upgrade, and integration
WCF Customization
WCF Security
WCF Web Programming
WCF Peer Channel
PRE-REQUISITES:
This workshop contains 300-level deep technical content, and requires that attendees have a working knowledge of Visual Studio, VC# (or VB.NET) and Web Services concepts.
Product .NET 3.5
Duration 4 days
Level 300