TFS 2013 Web Access Deployed Tab - visual-studio-2012

I'm trying to understand what the "Deployed" tab is used for in TFS 2013 Team Web Access. There's another similar question here: What is the "deployed" tab for in TFS 2012 Web Access
Some of the information there seems to suggest that TFS Deployer is setting a build quality, but what is it? Another post indicates that it might be for Azure deployments.
Just trying to understand how it works.

When you use the built in Continious Build to Azure build template it will automatically set this for successfully deployments.
You may be able to set this through the API.

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Using VS 2013, publishing a web site to Azure through the wizard, where would I find this website for later management within my MSDN Azure account?

I've recently built an ASP.NET website using C#.
Using the publishing wizard within Visual Studio 2013 I see that I can publish to "Microsoft Azure Websites", and I have done so. It worked great.
However, logging into the Azure account I'm not able to locate this website anywhere so that I may manage it directly, and see what the burn rate (costs) are.
Where are these "Microsoft Azure Websites" stored once they are published, within Azure?
Many thanks in advance.
Bob
Under Web Apps in the old portal and under App Services in the new one.

How to import website created through Azure Portal into TFS project?

I created a website in the Azure portal, but now I can't find out how to import this into a TFS project. I have visual studio 2013. They seem completely disconnected in terms of importing a project from what the Azure portal creates. Thanks!
Jerelo - the way you solve your issue depends what type of website you deployed and how it was deployed originally. Many of the pre-baked Website images for items like Drupal or Wordpess are not designed to be imported into TFS and auto-deployed.
You would need to download your files via FTP (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/kaushal/archive/2014/08/02/microsoft-azure-web-site-connect-to-your-site-via-ftp-and-upload-download-files.aspx) and then setup source-control deployments by selecting the "Set up deployment from source control" option in the Portal.
Visual Studio Online is the only TFS source you'll be able to use right now, otherwise you have Dropbox, Git or Mercurial deployments Detailed options are listed here: https://github.com/Azure/azure-content/blob/master/articles/web-sites-deploy.md

Setting up sharepoint dev environment on azure?

I would like to begin on development for sharepoint.
Instead of setting up a dev environment on premise, I would like to set up one on Azure.
I've found some tutorials http://blogs.msdn.com/b/sharepointdev/archive/2013/09/26/create-sharepoint-2013-development-environments-quickly-on-azure.aspx but each on use Visual Studio RC. When I try to create one with Visual Studio Ultimate, there's no "Configure Developer Desktop" folder and I don't know how to set up tools and which tools?
Do you have a follow up or a virtual drive that I can use?
If you have the chance to have an msdn subscription, you can follow http://visualstudio2013msdngalleryimage.azurewebsites.net/
Best, you can subscribe to an office 365 account and more easily deploy to your new sharepoint site
I have written this in detail using 3 staged approach. The first of the post is available at this link
http://wellytonian.com/2014/10/sharepoint-2013-development-platform-azure/. Basically you can setup a complete SharePoint 2013 standalone server, setup the point to site vpn and connect. Code away :)

Login prompt in deploying report to SharePoint 2013 in integrated mode

I have sharepoint 2013. I have one SQL instance in sharepoint integrated mode and another instance in SSRS native mode on my server.
I get the login failure error.
I am dealing with this failure that is explained in the following solutions. But non of them solved my problem:
I did this solution:
https://stackoverflow.com/a/1445068/779408
and this:
http://ybbest.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/how-to-fix-%E2%80%9Cnot-able-to-deploy-report-to-sharepoint-2010-in-integrated-mode%E2%80%9D/
then I tested this solution:
http://www.thorntontechnical.com/tech/sharepoint/sharepoint-2010-ssrs-integrated-mode-deploy-login-prompt#.U5vQj7EmFKb
and implemented the solution in this:
https://sharepoint.stackexchange.com/questions/16656/not-able-to-deploy-report-to-sharepoint-2010-in-integrated-mode
Now I have the following web application and its Document library
http://test.local:44444/sites/sc1/Reports
But I can not deploy my reports on it.
What should I do now??
This issue normally occurs due to incomplete installation. Ensure that SQL Server Reporting services Add-in for sharepoint is installed. If not, run SQL Server setup again to install the missing add-in. If SharePoint 2013 is missing service pack 1, it may cause errors during configuration.
I would suggest you make use of the release configuration manager. You can create releases such as
LOCAL
REPORT_TESTING
REPORT_STAGING
PRODUCTION
SOME_SHAREPOINT_DEPLOYMENT
Each release type contains it's own instance of configuration values. This would allow the release type to control the deployment. If you are not using SharePoint locally then you can set the LOCAL release configuration to the standard SSRS values on your local machine.
this issue happening when you deployment the SSRS reports on SharePoint mode and configure FBA on the SP server
To solve this issue you must extend the Web Application that include BI Center
I have been facing the same issue,
When creating a new service application in SharePoint using SQL Server Reporting Services Service Application, I forgot to check the Web Application to be Associated.
Solution:
After I checked the Web Application & updated the service application properties, its Working.
Hope it helps someone...

Deploy separate web sites azure

I have a single web project that I want deploy in Azure.
I want to create one IIS web site per country and I want to be able to deploy each web site independently (not all of them at a time). How to do this?
Well,
you have two options:
Use Windows Azure WebSites to host your websites
Use Windows Azure Accelerator for WebRoles or your own project similar to that approach.
However you have to note that the second option is a project that is no longer being supported due to avialability of Azure Websites. With Azure Websites, you can have almost everything you get with the Accelerator. You can host your websites on a dedicated instances, and manage them individually. You can update/deploy your website data via FTP/GIT/TFS/WebDeploy, whichever method you are most happy with. The only downside of websites which I see, is the lack of Startup Tasks and the ability to customize your environment (Windows, IIS settings, etc).
When you have set up your Azure account you can go the the web sites section and start the construction of your Azure web spaces, the interface in the preview is very straight forward to use and intuitive.
For deployment using the publish command in from Visual Studio 2012 (which I found the easiest) here are the steps you will need to undertake:
For each of your countries you will need to set up the web site
in azure.
Then for each of those web sites you have created go
to their dashboard page and download the publish profile settings.
It is these settings that you can import into you Visual Studio
solution by selecting the publish command and browsing for the
settings profile file you downloaded and importing it.
Then in future when
you right click on the web site in your solution and select publish
it will publish to your web site in Azure.
I have created a fictional website for Spain below is the link you will need in order to initiate a publish from Visual Studio.
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For Visual Studio 2010 I met some difficulties trying to publish, in fact the publish profile you can download was not importable to Visual Studio 2010, well at least I could not figure it out.
Instead I created a deployment user by clicking on the 'Reset Deployment Credentials' link on the Azure dashboard (see the link in the image), created the user and then published via FTP from Visual Studio 2010.
What I would like to flag up is the maintenance issue of having one site for each country rather than one site with Localization, (if it is a language issue). A small change multiplied just 20 times for 20 different countries becomes a larger task and if you have lots of little changes it soon becomes a large task to maintain them all.

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