After nearly 10 years at Microsoft I've decided that it is time to move on to another opportunity. I drafted a long post about how I joined Microsoft and what I've learned during that time, blah blah blah. It was turning in to a Minnesota Goodbye ...

I normally don't do link dumps - but came across several new (and one updated) links that made it into my bookmarks and that I wanted to share. Want to expose TFS over the internet or otherwise use FQDN? First read this: http://blogs.msdn.com...

Symptoms Do you have an error during installation that looks something like this: Does your log file contain an error that like this: [Info   @08:19:12.404] Starting website 8080 [Error  @08:19:12.705] PRODUCT ISSUE: UNHANDLED EXCEPTION...

Please note: this post applies only to Team Foundation Server 2010 (Beta 1 to current).  It does not apply to TFS 2005, 2008 or any future version (though I suspect that any future version would have similar capabilities). Were you asked to enable...

I wanted to read Twitter.com search results (tweets) using C#.  I started by deciding that a tweet looks something like this: public class Tweet { public string Id { get ; set ; } public DateTime Published { get ; set ; } public string Link...

Prior to using Hyper-V as part of my daily development and test efforts I wasted man weeks every year.  I lost days at a time configuring machines and recovering from updated NDP builds.  I wasted hours every week repeating the same steps over...

I just installed Windows 7 beta on a Hyper-V VM (1GB RAM, single proc, 127 expandable drive) and found that the calculator has changed and I like it. Beyond Standard and Scientific there are two new modes, Programmer and Statistics. Programmer supports...

Brian Randell has been hard at work putting together a holiday surprise we all will enjoy. New Virtual PC/Server and Hyper-V images with VSTS and TFS and a 12/31/2009 expiration date. Please see his blog post for the full details - I will re-post a little...

The VSTS Ranger team has released TFS Branching Guidance II . This document describes pragmatic branching practices that are based on the real world experience of TFS professionals inside and outside of Microsoft. What's new? I'l just repeat their information...

I hate repetitive tasks - especially ones that are easily automated. Generating code coverage runs using mstest is an example of that. The goal was to create a script that could do that following: 1) Validate that the input binaries were available...

I'll be available to talk about TFS admin scenarios at PDC - my hours are: Monday - 12:30 - 6:00 in the VSTS Lounge Tuesday - 12:30 - 6:00 in the VSTS Lounge Wednesday 10:00-12:30 in the VSTS Lounge and Ask The Experts from 5:30-9:00PM I won...

Coming to PDC? Interested in Team Foundation Server Setup, Configuration and Administration? Stop by the PDC Lounge and let's chat! I'll post the hours I'll be available tomorrow.

Since life can't be all Team Foundation Server and rainbows I've started getting serious about learning more about Ruby and the Rails framework. To keep the TFS focus on this blog I've started a new blog dedicated to non-TFS tech topics http://www.GhostOnThird...

When installing a service path on Team Foundation Server one of the first things that needs to happen is that TFS is "quiesced" - which basically means "to make quiet" - i.e. it's running but it's not accepting new client connections. The tool that does...

At this time 98 people have downloaded the TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit . Ok - some of you are saying "100? What's the big deal? A picture of a rabbit with a pancake on it's head gets more downloads every hour!" And they would be right...

Interested in writing a migration tool targeting (or synchronizing with) Team Foundation Server version control or workitem tracking? Then check out the pre-release of the TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit on CodePlex! http://www.codeplex...

As Matt noted on the migration blog a working copy of the toolkit specification has been released. You can download it and leave feedback from this link: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa948851.aspx If you have feedback on migration scenarios...

When running the VSS to TFS converter (VSSConverter.exe) one of the most common questions I hear is how to create a UserMap.xml file for users who are no longer with the company or have had their accounts renamed. My first suggestion is that any...

SharePoint does not have persistent hyperlinks for all document revisions. More specifically – SharePoint has two methods for linking to documents: the canonical path and the revision paths. The canonical path is the latest copy of the document...

In my previous rant I made this statement (quoted out of context): Migrating WSS content to TFS? Piece of cake. Just enumerate each WSS change and replay the action in TFS. If you are doing an incremental migration then just enumerate those changes...

Happy New Year and all that. I spent the long weekend at Myrtle Beach soaking up rain or sun - depending on the moment you checked. I’ve been out of Fargo for a year now, after nearly 30 years living in Minnesota and North Dakota . I wasn’t timid about...

If I could do it all over again I would take auto shop class in high school. I didn’t know it at the time but I really enjoy automotive technology. I have bought several text books used in automotive tech classes and read them cover to cover several times...

As Matt has mentioned on the TFS Migration blog we’re working on a migration toolkit and, specifically, a sample converter tool to keep WSS document libraries in sync with a location in the TFS source control server. One of the most common questions...

This week is the one year anniversary of my move from the Fargo, ND office and the Business Framework team to the Durham, NC office and the Team Foundation Server Version Control team. I’ve spent the last few days reflecting on the last year. This is...

This week is the one year anniversary of my move from the Fargo, ND office and the Business Framework team to the Durham, NC office and the Team Foundation Server Version Control team. I’ve spent the last few days reflecting on the last year. This is...