Sign In
Grant Holliday's Blog
Common Tasks
Blog Home
Email Blog Author
OK
RSS for comments
RSS for posts
Atom
Search
Advanced search options...
Search In:
Everything
Blogs
Forums
People
Groups
Places
Pages
Date range:
All Time
Last Year
Last 6 Months
Last 3 Months
Last Month
Last Week
Last Two Days
Tags
Azure
Other
Performance
Pioneer Dogfood
PowerShell
TFS
TFS at Microsoft
TFS Proxy
VS2010
VSTS Administering
VSTS Building & Releasing
VSTS Developing
VSTS Planning & Tracking
VSTS Version Control
Monthly Archives
Archives
January 2012
(3)
February 2011
(2)
November 2010
(1)
October 2010
(1)
August 2010
(1)
July 2010
(2)
May 2010
(5)
April 2010
(1)
February 2010
(2)
January 2010
(1)
December 2009
(5)
November 2009
(3)
October 2009
(5)
September 2009
(1)
August 2009
(5)
July 2009
(1)
June 2009
(5)
May 2009
(4)
February 2009
(1)
January 2009
(1)
December 2008
(4)
November 2008
(9)
October 2008
(5)
September 2008
(7)
August 2008
(4)
July 2008
(12)
June 2008
(15)
June, 2008
MSDN Blogs
>
Grant Holliday's Blog
>
June, 2008
Subscribe via RSS
Sort by:
Most Recent
|
Most Views
|
Most Comments
Excerpt View
|
Full Post View
Grant Holliday's Blog
Team Foundation Server and Hyper-V Virtualization
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Grant Holliday - GrantH
1
Comments
Now that the final Hyper-V virtualization bits for Windows Server 2008 are available people have started asking if Team Foundation Server will be supported as a guest virtual machine. Yes, Hyper-V will be officially supported ( more on Brian Harry’s blog...
Grant Holliday's Blog
New VSTS & TFS Training courses coming up around Australia
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Grant Holliday - GrantH
1
Comments
Microsoft Learning are due to release two new courses on Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server in the next month or so and a fellow Australian and Team System MVP – Anthony Borton is the guinea pig to deliver them in Australia . 6214 -...
Grant Holliday's Blog
Multi-Value Controls in Work Items
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Grant Holliday - GrantH
1
Comments
A Multi-Value control is one which accepts multiple values (duh!). This is useful if for example a bug belongs to multiple components. Such a control is not available out of the box with TFS2005 or TFS2008. Fortunately CodePlex comes to the rescue again...
Grant Holliday's Blog
How to: Move your TFS server to a friendly name
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Grant Holliday - GrantH
1
Comments
As more and more people adopt Team Foundation Server around the world, teams are finding that they’re out-growing their initial hardware. Then what happens is the IT Infrastructure guys say that there’s no more room in the existing data center. Strangely...
Grant Holliday's Blog
Troubleshooting connections to TFS
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Grant Holliday - GrantH
13
Comments
In my current and previous lives , one of the problems I get involved in is when people can’t connect to Team Foundation Server for some reason. Usually the following occurs: “It was working yesterday but not today” “I...
Grant Holliday's Blog
How to: Move work items between team projects
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Grant Holliday - GrantH
5
Comments
I’ve written about this previously but it’s worth a re-mention. It is not possible through the Work Item Object Model (API) or otherwise to move a work item between two team projects. The reason for this is that each team project maintains...
Grant Holliday's Blog
Synchronizing a file share with source control
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Grant Holliday - GrantH
1
Comments
A question came up the other day: I have a directory structure checked into TFS version control. I’d like to synchronize this with another directory that is not under source control. Before starting, I have to refer you to the Visual Studio...
Grant Holliday's Blog
Team Foundation Server Proxy blog
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Grant Holliday - GrantH
2
Comments
Before I joined Microsoft I hadn’t had any exposure to Team Foundation Server Proxy. As you know from Brian’s blog post on the internal dogfood TFS deployment here there are a number of proxy servers deployed – India, Singapore, Europe, North Carolina...
Grant Holliday's Blog
How to: Copy and paste workspace mappings
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Grant Holliday - GrantH
2
Comments
One of the very little known tricks when dealing with Workspace mappings in TFS Source Control is that you can actually copy & paste working folders . This can be useful if you need to share workspace mappings between team members. You can just copy...
Grant Holliday's Blog
How do you install Team Build?
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Grant Holliday - GrantH
0
Comments
The first step should always be “Am I licensed for it?”. This is something you’ll have to determine for yourself but the answer is usually yes. Refer to the Visual Studio 2008 Team System Licensing White Paper for all the details. Here’s an except: ...
Grant Holliday's Blog
Parallel builds of solutions within one Team Project
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Grant Holliday - GrantH
4
Comments
With Visual Studio Team Build 2008 there is no way to run two builds from within the same Team Project at the same time , although two builds in different Team Projects can run in parallel. Update: I got a few questions about this above statement and...
Grant Holliday's Blog
How to: Make Team Build get a previous version
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Grant Holliday - GrantH
7
Comments
In Team Build 2008 there is a property called GetVersion . Here’s what the description from Aaron Hallberg’s blog says about it: GetVersion . Passed to the Version property of the Get task. Defaults to SourceGetVersion (see below), but can be overridden...
Grant Holliday's Blog
TFS Orcas SP1 & Rosario Evaluations & Hints
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Grant Holliday - GrantH
1
Comments
One of the Team System MVPs – Willy-Peter has put together a PDF giving you a walk through of the most recent Rosario CTP . What I love about this is that it’s very easy to consume and pass on to others. Also included is an overview of what to expect...
Grant Holliday's Blog
When does the VSTS Codename “Rosario” April CTP VPC Expire?
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Grant Holliday - GrantH
3
Comments
One of our newly awarded Team System MVP’s Mitch asked me today when the Visual Studio® Team System Code Name "Rosario" April 2008 CTP (VPC Image) expires. Answer : Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 5:31 PM Seattle time (which is Wednesday, October...
Grant Holliday's Blog
Hello
Posted
over 4 years ago
by
Grant Holliday - GrantH
6
Comments
You might remember me from such blogs as OzGrant.com , mailing lists such as OzTFS.com , the Team System MVP's list and the world's first hosted Team Foundation Server - TFSNow.com . Just over two months ago I interviewed for a position on the VSTS team...
Page 1 of 1 (15 items)