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In researching how to deploy MOSS into a customer's data centre, I needed to find out exactly what and how was being communicated between the various MOSS servers. Surprisingly, Microsoft.com is a bit light on details, although there is a reasonable "security
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After an extended absence, I returned to hacking customising TFS Process Templates today. Last time I dabbled in this space, the Process Template Editor was a standalone application. It's now part of the excellent Team Foundation Power Tool. One problem...
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Perhaps I've been living under a rock, but today I was shown a neat script for IIS 6 that displays the process IDs and related application pools for all IIS worker processes. The script is "iisapp.vbs". It's just the trick when trying to discover which
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It's that time of year where I really need to move on my training objectives I set out at the beginning of year. In a rush of blood, I decided to update my .NET certifications to the latest and greatest. One question that comes up in discussions from
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A couple of days before Christmas, I found myself in the emergency department of my local hospital with an Atrial Fibrillation . Think of it as feeling like you're running a marathon while you're lying still. To correct the problem, my doctor decided
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This is great news. I've been waiting on this one for a while. I'm currently pondering what one of my major customer's application delivery methods might be in the future. This is another option to throw into the mix. Details can be found at AJAX : The
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We had a great turnout this morning. Thanks to everyone that attended. If you haven't had enough of me, attached is my slide deck (as an mht file) on "Migrating VS2003 Users to TFS Source Control". For those that couldn't make it, this outlines some of
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Last week I found myself creating a custom work item and needed to add a few new fields to TFS. That wasn't anything special in itself, but when I decided to change the names of my new fields (I'm blonde after all), things became more interesting. It
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Recently I joined a newly formed Enterprise Architecture team. I've never been in on the ground floor before, so it's an interesting experience. One thing that kept coming up in our planning discussions was a need to list/record the application assets
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Just in case you missed it... Check out Nils' blog . It looks like I'm going to be one of the first bunnies to present. Hmmmm, where to start? I think Grant and I should be able to come up with something from our recent migration gig. We're 2.5 months
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One of the great things about TFS is that you can place the "crown jewels" of your development activities in a single safe location. The consequence for me is that I'm somewhat paranoid about using a production TFS installation for TFS R&D activities.
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TFS is a large product. Not a day goes by for me without discovering something new. With this size and complexity comes the potential for a significant administrative burden. Create a team project here, assign some permissions there, and the poor TFS
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So one week on, how did it pan out? In short, not bad... not bad at all. We had about 100 users come on board on Day 1. We saw a reasonable amount of load on the TFS servers for about 4 hours, as users populated their workspaces. After that (and subsequent
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This is a follow-up to my last post where I'll talk about the highlights and lowlights of our TFS deployment project. So how were the requirements met? Yes, we used VSSConverter. It turns out that that it's quite a resilient tool. We managed to import
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In this post, I'll outline the TFS deployment project I've been working on over the last 2 months (as part of a dedicated team). Future posts will cover some of the bumps we've run into along the way. Here's the story... The source for one of my customer's
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