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Brian Harry mentioned this on his blog , and similarly, I’ve frequently been asked about integration and options for developers building solutions in Dynamics. We’ve finally got an answer, and this whitepaper talks about setting up the solution
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From one of my colleague, Mohammad Akif , comes this year’s Aspiring Architect series… Aspiring Architect Series 2008 Last year we held a Web Cast series for aspiring architects that was attended by over 1200 individuals and covered a number of strategies
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Very cool. Another series from Programmer’s… May 22: Why Team Development? Why Microsoft Visual Studio Team System? In this first 1-hour webinar session – we will introduce the basic concepts and practices of collaborative software development.
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These guys really know their stuff… Osellus has been on board with VSTS since before we shipped, and they focus on the process portion of the tooling, both from a expertise, and a product point of view. Check out http://www.starshot.com/microsoft/Osellus/May29/index.html
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Yes, it’s true. Sometimes our developer tools licensing can be thought of as complicated. This whitepaper gives an overview of the licensing for VSTS, and describes some typical deployment scenarios as examples. Download details: Visual Studio Team System
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A common request from customers is a way to manage moving web applications and configuration from development to staging, to production, etc…. This tool, created by Microsoft, seems to fit the bill: Microsoft has created the Microsoft Web Deployment Tool,
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"If you are deploying SharePoint, you really need to load test the servers before putting them into production to make sure you've sized your servers properly." That statement about says it all. The MOSS perf team has released sample web tests and load
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You know, in my job at Microsoft Canada, I get the pleasure of working with lots of really awesome partners and customers. It's sometimes nice to take a step back and review how really amazing some of our closest VSTS partners are... InCycle Software
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I get this question a lot, and I thought I'd post the stuff you need here. It's also part of the core documentation… Managing and Resetting Service Accounts and Passwords See Also Send Feedback Team Foundation Server includes several services and service
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Not sure how many people had issues with this, but it seems our webcast registration page was only showing new webcasts up to March 11th, so if you went to sign up for one more recently, you had no link with which to register... it's now fixed: This session
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This is nice.,.. a new set of VSTS/TFS VPC images, with the VSTS 2008 Hands-on labs is now live. The updated image expires December 2008, which gives folks a LOT of time to try/learn/test VSTS and TFS. As I mention on my webcasts , and in customer meetings,
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Some neat updates have been posted to the VSTS "Rosario" specifications. In particular, the three new ones: Codename “TFS Bug Submission Portal” Power Tool for Team Foundation Server 2008 Send Mail from TFS Core Linking Work Item Tracking Check them out
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Well, spring is coming like a lamb this year. Still have snow on the ground (STILL) and got another dusting last night. Familiar sounds are abound. For my beloved Toronto Maple Leafs, it's been a story of too little, too late. They've been excellent for
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Jelle's tool looks wicked ... a great utility when managing regular builds and trying to ensure high quality, particularly in continuous integration scenarios... BuildCop is a tool that analyzes MSBuild project files (interactively or during e.g. a daily
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For some reason, the list below (thanks Jonathan ) was eluding me when I was creating my "OpenInBlend" context menu for Visual Studio 2008. I post it here for posterity, as well as hoping others find it easier to locate than I did: public readonly static
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