How to perform Lab management operations in Build and Release.

This post details the migration of Lab Management features from deprecated XAML builds to the modern Build/Release hub in TFS and VSTS. It explains how to leverage the SCVMM extension and task for environment creation and management (VM creation from templates, start/stop VMs, checkpoint management), build-deploy-test automation (replacing XAML build definitions with Release definitions and tasks for deployment and test execution), and self-service creation of network-isolated environments using SCVMM Network Virtualization. It provides step-by-step guidance and screenshots for implementing these functionalities within the Build/Release pipelines.