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A couple of weeks ago I did an upgrade of a customer’s TFS 2008 installation. The pre-requisites for the assignment was: - Migrate from single server 2008 SP1 TFS to dual server setup of TFS 2010 - New hardware - WSS 3.0 I was...

Several customers that I work with have external partners they work with, most of the time these partners have domain accounts with the customer and some kind of VPN connection so working with TFS is not a problem. It is however not uncommon that the...

If you want to get up to speed on WCF it has come to my attention through my friend Willy-Peter that Juval Löwy will hold one of his WCF Master Classes in Zürich the end of June. As I have understood from friends and colleagues that have attended previous...

Preparing a demo of VSTS DB Edition for a customer the other day I ran in to some problems with creating a isolated sandbox environment. The scenario I wanted to solve was to have a separate deployment configuration for my sandbox where I re-created...

I was on a conf call the other day where I got a question regarding how the interaction works between the TFS AT and the source control proxy. The biggest issue was how the proxy keep track of that the request for a file from source control is from an...

The VSTS Rangers in cooperation with VSTS MVPs, Microsoft Services, and VSTS Product Team has released v2 of the TFS Branching Guide. You can get it from Codeplex http://www.codeplex.com/TFSBranchingGuideII . This is a great piece of guidance in...

This is a post describing an issue a Swedish customer asked me about in the spring of 2008 that is described here . Since I still see questions on this I decided to post it here as well. The problem is that when trying to access SharePoint from the...

Today I decided to create a TFS 2008 VPC environment using Windows Server 2008 and SQL 2008. In general I have to say that the installation went pretty smooth. I created a slipstream installer according to the instructions in the installation guide...

I have been helping a customer with moving their TFS 2005 server to new hardware and then upgrade it to 2008. I wanted to share some of the things I learned during this. This are things that all are documented in blogs, forums etc. but I wanted to...

My friend Willy-Peter is conducting a survey on what Value adds the community around VSTS|TFS wants to see in the future. Take the opportunity to influence the decision.

So, Then it has finally become my turn to start blogging. I have thought about it for a long time now but haven't come around to actually do something about it. This, my first blog post ever is just to describe who I am and what I do. My name is...