Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management Release Version
Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management Release Version
I’ve heard this question a lot –> Release Version??? I’m already using Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management… You are using the Lab Management “Release Candidate” version… 
When Microsoft release Visual Studio they define Lab Management capability to be “Release Candidate” quality rather then “Released” quality because didn’t got enough customer feedback to feel really confident that it was 100% ready for prime time.
Microsoft announced that Lab Management will not be sold as a separate product, but instead will be available to Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN and Visual Studio Test Professional with MSDN subscribers.
In addition, Microsoft will announce the general availability of Lab Management as “end of August.”
What is Lab Manager: (Read More)
Microsoft’s Visual Studio Lab Management solution extends the existing Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management platform to enable integrated Hyper-V based virtual machine management. Lab Management automates complex build-deploy-test workflows to optimize the build process, decrease risk and accelerate your time to market. Organizations can reduce development and testing costs associated with setup, tear down and restoration of virtual environments to a known state. Lab Management streamlines the collaboration between development, QA and operations to help organizations achieve a higher ROI and realize the benefits of Microsoft’s entire ALM solution. Lab Management enables testers to file rich bugs with links to environment snapshots, which enable developers to quickly debug complex environments.
If you want to try out Lab Management scenarios, you can download a preconfigured VHD which has all lab management components installed and configured from http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=195885
Lab Management Home Page - http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/solutions/software-quality/lab-management
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