This blog has long been a combination of professional and personal posts, insofar as I post about my personal projects and not gossip, but I've decided to split the two apart. From now on this blog will cover technologies I support at work and my personal...

I've been researching an issue today relating to a problem with SSRS 2005, the symptoms are as follows; 1. "Report server is not responding" error in the browser when connecting to the Report Manager website. 2. The following message in an ASP.NET...

I had a particularly tricky case recently that took a while to track down the cause, sharing in case it helps save anyone a few weeks of thier time and thier blood pressure! Symptoms An SSIS package fails with the following error; Executing the...

This is another post that is for my own reference though likely useful to a number of people is on on the topic of SSRS logging. For the most part all the information you will need is at the following link; http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms157403...

I've recently moved to the SQL Developer Team and I'm currently building a one stop SQL machine with SQL 2005, 2008 and 2008 R2 (all 64bit versions) side by side and I've come across an issue installing SSRS 2005. There are plenty of blog posts out there...

A quick update to my previous post regarding installing TFS 2020 Beta2 on Windows Home Server, the recently released RC installs as easy and the steps to enable secure remote access are the same. Regards, Jason

It is with great pleasure that I can announce that the Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 VM Factory guidance has shipped!  This is the first Rangers Project I contributed to that has shipped so it is with no small pride either! http...

Howdy, For those who may have noticed a decrease in the number of non-TFS related posts on here you may be interested in heading over to my personal blog. I've decided to separate professional and personal projects so most of my Home Server and Media...

Updated: This precedure also works for TFS 2010 RC using the latest bits. After many attempts to install TFS 2008 on WHS I ended up giving up on the whole idea. Reporting Services and WSS kept throwing up roadblocks periodically and seemed to make...

I’ve just installed TFS 2008 SP1 (slipstreamed) and could connect to my new server however could not create team projects.  Having run the BPA and it come back clean I was a little baffled until I stumbled upon the IIS role and spotted the “HTTP...

Is easy.  Very easy in fact, upgrade isn’t much more difficult either!  There is a fantastic video showing how to download and install the bits need to test VSTS 2010 beta 1 at the 10-4 home on msdn.com http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4/10...

Power Pack 2 has been released, huzzah!  There are a lot of new features in the box for remote access but my favourite has to be the Media Centre Connector.  This enables your Media Centre to access your Home Server shares a lot easier, including...

Just came across a great project to create a number of customer build tasks for TFS Build.  It is quite in depth and includes the ability to zip files produced by the build and use FTP to transfer files from within the build definition. http://msbuildtasks...

A nice guide someone just pointed out to me on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms244674.aspx Seems to be a great guide to troubleshooting data warehouse issues, I guess the clue was in the name :)   Jason

I’ve been thinking about the “little guys” of late and solutions not always available to the small dev groups, offsite backup being one of these. Windows Live Mesh is a solution I’m using for my photo library as the Live Desktop has 5GB of online storage...

Allow and Deny permissions can cause confusion in TFS, for the most part deny overrides allow which means an Admin can lock themselves out of a project if they are not careful.  I’ll reference the other blogs I’ve read with regards to explaining...

Nine times out of ten most TFS related Reporting Services 2005 issues can be resolved by resetting everything back to the original settings. Follows is a guide on how to do excatly that. Please ensure you back everything up before doing this and it is...

Under some situations you may come across an issue that requires you to delete and recreate the data sources for Reporting Services 2005 for your instance of TFS. An example would be where you need to rebuild your server from a backup but for whatever...

As I mentioned some time ago I have been writing a few documents to compliment the official documentation. I figured I would start with a flourish and post this document first. I have pasted the Abstract below as a taster for the rest of the document...

This post is more for myself than anyone, it is a collection of links difficult to find that are nevertheless very useful. If they can help others as well then all the better. Team Foundation Server Customizable Team Foundation Build Targets Team...

There is a feature of TFS that allows all commands run through it logged to an internal database. This is the TfsActivityLogging database and one of its key features is that it can never grow to large. If enabled, activity logging will log all commands...

Regular readers of my blog will know I've been a fan of Foldershare on Home Server for a while now. The main reason for this is a simplified version of "Offline Files" that works across the internet. It also works as a nice backup when remote access fails...

Not the snappiest of titles though if you are debugging Win32 applications, COM servers or just see a random error code in your event log these two mapges may be of help... HRESULT Values Win32 Error Codes I'll try and come up with something more...

Another trick I use in Virtual Server is the use of differencing disks. A differencing disk is one that inherits it's contents from a parent disk, a powerful tool when used to the ful. For example, I have a blank installation of Windows Server 2003 SP2...

Recently I've been working on SQL mirroring with TFS and concentrating on worst case scenarios, when the principle data tier goes down. The whole point of mirrors with TFS, as I understand it, is high availability. With regards to setting up mirroring...