Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management

Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management functionality is released as part of this general distribution release update. This update contains fixes and updates to the Lab Management functionality to improve performance, stability, usability and diagnostic information. The following is a list of major fixes in this update:

• Improves performance for Lab Management Workflow Wizard.
  
• Improves performance for running automated test cases on Network Isolated Lab environments.
• Fixes an issue in which a Test Controller service account that is the same as a Lab Service account causes issues with environment capabilities.
• There is a new Expression Encoder 4.0 based Video Diagnostic data adapter to collect video recording when you perform tests. This diagnostic adapter replaces the Windows Media Encoder base video diagnostic adapter. This functionality is also available as a separate update.  For more information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:  
  2160831 Update for Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Video Data Adapter

Note You need to install this update on all of your client machines running Microsoft Test Manager, Test Controller, Team Foundation Server, build and virtual machines. This update is required to use the final release version of the Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management functionality. Please make sure that required software components from the release version of Visual Studio 2010 are installed before you install this update.

Update information

The following files are available for download from the Microsoft Download Center:

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For more information about how to download Microsoft support files, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

119591 How to obtain Microsoft support files from online services

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Prerequisites

To install this update, you must have Windows Installer 3.1 or a later version installed on the computer. To obtain the latest version of Windows Installer for the computer, visit the following Microsoft website:

Command line switches for this update

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Restart requirement

You do not have to restart the computer after you apply this update if the affected files are not being used.

Update replacement information

 This update does not replace any other hotfixes.

Update removal information

To remove this update, use the Programs and Features item in Control Panel.

File information

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