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Ventriloquism: TFS Style
28 July 08 11:45 AM | Adam Singer | 2 Comments   
Quite a long time back, Buck posted about how to recover from the situation where one TFS machine is created as a clone from another. This can lead to clients still showing the project list for one server when the connect to the second. Based on a recent Read More...
Attachment(s): FindTfsGuid.zip
Edifice Reqs II: The SQL
16 July 08 09:00 AM | Adam Singer | 1 Comments   
Back in March, I posted about the requirements for TFS installation. I promised to post about "SQL Server and it's Various Components", but have been tied up with the Visual Studio 2008 SP1 like a Thanksgiving turkey (only not quite as delicious). In Read More...
My service is packed, I'm ready to go
09 July 08 12:12 PM | Adam Singer | 4 Comments   
...installing here, upgrade once more (Adapted from "Leaving on a Jet Plane") A post on the Visual Studio Team System forums reminded me of one very important tidbit of Visual Studio patching. The integration of Team Foundation Server with Visual Studio Read More...
Edifice Reqs
07 March 08 10:16 AM | Adam Singer | 1 Comments   
I'd like to tip my hat to the father of a guy I worked with as a camp counselor one summer long ago for the post title. He owned a demolition company called " Edifice Wrecks ". In our last episode , I described the OSes that the various Team Foundation Read More...
Pre[ranasaurus] Reqs: The OSic Era
04 March 08 01:37 PM | Adam Singer | 3 Comments   
I've seen a bunch of questions over time about what it takes to get Team Foundation Server (TFS) components installed. Because it varies by component, the answer is usually rather lengthy and takes long enough to fully describe that eyes start glazing Read More...
License to Nil
09 February 08 11:54 PM | Adam Singer | 2 Comments   
As a follow up to my explication on the various TFS Editions and a few thread I saw on the Visual Studio Team System forums (including Upgrading TFS 2008 Workgroup to Std. Edition - then TF50626 ), I'd like to point out something about the upgrade from Read More...
Supercalifragilisticexpialidociou-dition
05 February 08 03:43 PM | Adam Singer | 4 Comments   
With Team Foundation 2008 generally available, I've seen a bit of confusion over the various Editions offered. Of course, there's still a bit of confusion over how " Workgroup Edition " relates to workgroup networks, but there's also some missing clarity Read More...
Absence makes the install grow fonder
16 August 07 11:15 AM | Adam Singer | 1 Comments   
As I mentioned in a previous post, our program manager Sudhir is blogging up a storm on all the great new features in Orcas, including remote Analysis Services and Sharepoint. You can also use pre-installed and configured Sharepoint instances, if your Read More...
Great news!
31 July 07 09:45 AM | Adam Singer | 1 Comments   
I'm still alive! Yes, I know you all agree that's great news. At least, I think it's great news so will classify it as such here in my blog. First, a bit of business: Come chat with the Visual Studio Team System product team – This Wednesday Join members Read More...
He who permissions least, permissions best
23 May 07 02:05 PM | Adam Singer | 3 Comments   
I've heard a few questions and comments about our permission model recently. For example, some folks have asked why user in two groups, one granted a permission and one denied the same permission, is denied the permission rather than granted it. The answer Read More...
Can you direct me to Directory Services?
29 March 07 03:15 PM | Adam Singer | 4 Comments   
As with many of my other Administration and Operations posts, this one stems from posts I've seen on the Visual Studio Team System forums . I've read a number of questions where people are having trouble granting their Active Directory users access to Read More...
Random Acts of Group-ness
28 February 07 02:00 PM | Adam Singer | 3 Comments   
Following up from my last post " 'Grep'ing Groups " and this question on the forums, here's a bit of code that will help you add a user to multiple groups across all projects on your server. Say you want to add someone with the domain account "CORPNET\JoeBlogs" Read More...
Attachment(s): AddUserToTFSProjGroups.zip
'Grep'ing Groups
09 February 07 12:05 PM | Adam Singer | 2 Comments   
Man have I been busy. What have I been busy doing? Well, see there's.... actually, I'll let Brian explan as he's already done such an eloquent job at it, with some neat charts and graphs, too. I mentioned in my last post that I have some code that will Read More...
Attachment(s): BuiltinGroupReader.cs
Living Large
08 January 07 11:31 AM | Adam Singer | 2 Comments   
As Brian points out, there are some new Orcas specifications available for TFS. I've been working on the Large Group Sync crew for some time, and am very proud of the end result. What used to wind up as a support call can instead be managed by your Team Read More...
Virtual Green is made of People!
14 December 06 01:45 PM | Adam Singer | 1 Comments   
So you want to run Team Foundation Server , but don't have the physical machine resources. You think- 'hey, isn't Virtual Server a free download now?' You're right! And what's best, TFS works just fine in a Virtual Server. Having done quite a bit of testing Read More...
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