Deploying and testing web applications using Release Management

This post details how to author Powershell scripts and configure artifacts in Release Management for performing deployment and validation tasks on target servers. It covers installing DSC modules (specifically xWebAdministration), deploying a website from a TFS build, configuring access to the deployed website, and running automated tests using vstest.console.exe and publishing results to TFS. Prerequisites include WMF 4.0 and vstest.console.exe on target servers. It also outlines how to add deployment scripts to a Visual Studio solution and define Release Management components.