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TFS 2010: What Service Packs and Hotfixes Should I Install?
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Team Foundation Server 2010 was released in April 2010. Since then, there have been a number of important Service Packs, Cumulative Updates and hotfixes that have been made available based upon internal usage at Microsoft and customer feedback via the...
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Team Build 2010: Associate Changesets and Work Items with a Dummy Build
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Jason Prickett has a blog post called Creating Fake Builds in TFS Build 2010 . It includes code for creating a dummy build service host, build controller, build definition and then a build result ( IBuildDetail ). One thing that isn’t shown is how to...
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TFS: Empty Process Template
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Over the last few years, I've occasionally had a need for an empty or minimal process template. For example: You are setting up a sync with the TFS Integration Tools and you want to do a "context sync" (i.e. let the tool copy the Work Item Types...
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IntelliTrace for Azure without Visual Studio
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11 months ago
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IntelliTrace is a very useful tool for diagnosing applications on the Windows Azure platform. It is especially invaluable for diagnosing problems that occur during the startup of your roles. You might have seen these sorts of problems when you do a deployment...
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TFS2010: Test Attachment Cleaner and why you should be using it
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11 months ago
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[Update: 1 Nov 2011] There is an update available for TFS 2010 SP1 that prevents many of the large test attachments being stored in the database in the first place. You can download it from KB2608743 or read more about it on Annuthra's blog post: Reduce...
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TFS2010: Update Activity Logging Cleanup Interval
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over 2 years ago
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Every command that a user executes in TFS is logged to the database. This is very useful for investigating performance issues and other things. I’ve blogged before about how to query this table for TFS2008. Those same queries work for TFS2010 as well...
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Getting Started with TFS Hosting from DiscountASP.NET
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over 2 years ago
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With the recent reorganization of SPLA prices for Team Foundation Server, there’s been some new offerings in the Hosted TFS space. I’ve blogged about other TFS hosting services in the past and there’s a list of the companies that provide...
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SharePoint 2010 Error: HTTP Error 400. The size of the request headers is too long
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over 2 years ago
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Recently I started seeing this error on our internal TFS SharePoint sites. These sites use the Excel Dashboards and if I opened more than a few sites at a time, I would start getting the following popup error: Unexpected callback response! Error...
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Monitoring the TFS Data Warehouse - FAQ
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over 2 years ago
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This blog post describes how to interpret the Data Warehouse & Cube status reports included in the Administrative Report Pack for TFS2010 . Should I expect some processing jobs to fail? Why might most processing jobs fail? Why might many...
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Administrative Report Pack for Team Foundation Server 2010
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over 2 years ago
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One of the key components of TFS is the Data Warehouse, which is made up of a relational database and an Analysis Services cube . In general, people don’t have a problem with the performance or operation of our Data Warehouse. However there were...
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How to: Copy very large files across a slow or unreliable network
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over 2 years ago
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To prepare for the DevDiv TFS2010 upgrade we had to copy 8TB of SQL backups about 100 miles across a WAN link so that we could restore it on our test system. The link speed was reasonably good and the latency fairly low (5ms), but when you’re dealing...
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TFS2010 Upgrade: Compatibility of tools
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over 2 years ago
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When you upgrade from Team Foundation Server 2008 to 2010, one of the things you need to check is the compatibility of the tools that people rely on and use the server with. Without careful preparation this can have a significant impact on your user's...
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TFS2010: How to query Work Items using SQL on the Relational Warehouse
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over 2 years ago
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In John Socha-Leialoha's blog post on Upgrading Team Foundation Server 2008 Reports to 2010, Part I , there is a hidden gem: For the first time, writing reports against the warehouse using SQL is officially supported . As a rule of thumb, you’ll generally...
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TFS2010: How to enable compression for SOAP traffic
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over 2 years ago
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When we upgraded our internal servers to TFS2010, some of our remote users noticed that HTTP compression was used for some traffic, but not all. HTTP compression was enabled for file downloads from source control and for web access pages but we weren...
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TFS2010: Large & Resumable Check-in Support
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Problem The DevDiv mainline contains over 200GB of content and more than 1.8 million files. Any version control operations that had to deal with this amount of content would occasionally run into two problems: If the number of pending changes is more...
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TFS2010: DevDiv TFS Server Upgraded
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Back in April, the week before the VS2010 worldwide launch we successfully upgraded the server to TFS2010 RTM. Because this is such a large server and almost 4,000 people in the division depend on it for their day-to-day work, it took a couple of months...
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TFS2010: Create a new Team Project Collection from Powershell and C#
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over 2 years ago
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Team Foundation Server 2010 has the great new Administration Console, however one of the shortcomings of it is that you have to run it on the TFS Application Tier itself. The team wants to have a tool that allows remote server administration, however...
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TFS2010: Warehouse and Job Service Administrator Reports
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over 2 years ago
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The new TFS Administration Console will show you very basic information about warehouse & cube processing. However, it doesn’t show you anything about the queued & executing jobs. These are both gaps that I hope we address in the shipping...
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TFS2010: Invoking TFS web services using PowerShell
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over 2 years ago
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In this blog post, I’m going to show you how to invoke the Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Web Services remotely using Windows PowerShell 2.0. There are some TFS administrative functions that can only be performed remotely using the TFS ASMX web services...
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TFS2010: What happens to subscriptions after an upgrade?
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over 3 years ago
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Both TFS2008 and TFS2010 allow users to create subscriptions to events. These can be Work Item events, CheckIn events and others. They are created via the ‘Project Alerts’ option in Team Explorer or Web Access, or the ‘Alerts’ feature in the Team Foundation...
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TFS2010: Object Model API changes after Beta 2
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over 3 years ago
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Update: You should read this post in conjunction with Taylor's blog post: Introducing the TfsConnection, TfsConfigurationServer and TfsTeamProjectCollection Classes Based on feedback that we received both internally and externally we decided to make...
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TFS2010: Older clients not able to connect
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over 3 years ago
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When the Forward Compatibility GDR for Visual Studio 2008 shipped, a change was made to the Team Foundation Server 2010 code that blocks incompatible clients. That means that after TFS2010 beta2, clients that don’t have a forward-compatible patch installed...
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Multi-threaded robocopy for faster copies
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over 3 years ago
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Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 include an updated version of Robocopy that includes a multi-threaded copy feature. /MT [:n] :: Do multi-threaded copies with n threads (default 8). I’ve been using this for a while now and I’ve been seeing excellent...
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TFS2010: Troubleshooting SharePoint Dashboards data source problems
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over 3 years ago
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In the TFS 2010 release, if you have the Enterprise features of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) configured (i.e. Single Sign-On and Excel Services), then you can make TFS Excel Reports available to your users via a web site. This is very...
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VSTS Pioneer TFS2010: SQL Backups
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over 3 years ago
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( See this summary on the VSTS Pioneer dogfood server and all the other posts .) Having an adequate backup strategy for your Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server is a very important part of any deployment. I’ll share with you how we are...
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