Neno Loje and Charles Sterling (Chuck) organized a phenomenal first day at the summit, which involved cramming 50+ passionate technology gurus into one room, running quick and focused sessions, with short breaks …all coordinated and enforced by Neno....

In January 2010 we welcomed two new MVPs who were active ALM Rangers … see Rangers … two exciting new Microsoft Most valued Professionals (MVP) Nominations! Go South-Africa GO! for details. We have just realised, that another ALM Ranger, who was nominated...

In January I had the privilege of  hosting a one hour talk at the Southpointe Academy , to share my excitement with the information technology world and my career as Visual Studio ALM Ranger.  Below, in italic , is an article written by Steve...

Closing loop by sharing findings in terms of a migration on our test sandbox environment, in the hope that it may help others struggling with similar anomalies of migrations. Context The test sandbox allows us to perform migrations from Rational ClearQuest...

We have just delivered some Rangers awareness sessions at TechReady (Microsoft internal event) and as part of our transparent process :) we would like to know whether there are any sessions that you would like us to repackage and redeliver as a community...

We are excited to announce a small, yet razor-sharp-focused Rangers project. It is a out-of-band solution project, which is planning to see release 1.0 released as a Rangers project and Release 2 and beyond as community projects. The initial team will...

We have just closed a support thread where a user was only seeing the TFS 2010 adapters in the drop down lists of the TFS Integration administration tool. Where are the TFS 2008 adapters … they are on the system, but cannot be selected and configured...

In Rangers Build Customization Guide – Status Update: ALPHA Release under magnifying glass we introduced the first ALPHA release of the build customization guidance, which by the way, is already in its fifth revision and proceeding towards the magical...

I recently saw an interesting question in a support thread, where the question was “ we want to be absolutely sure that no matter what it will not make any changes on the XYZ server ”. Looking at the following illustration we are configuring a migration...

We are please to announce a sequel to our blockbuster project http://tfsbranchingguideiii.codeplex.com/ . Abstract The abstract below has been copied “as is” from Bijan’s announcement email: We are planning the fourth...

When configuring a Rational ClearCase migration session you are currently confronted with the choice of three adapters. So which one should you select? First, let us discuss some of the migration strategies (Recap) It is important to consider migration...

January 2011 Projects News CodedUI After a short suspension during December due to other commitments, this project has been kicking-off again. Word4TFS The project was suspended in December and most of January while the core team was negotiating...

During a migration process a number of conflicts might occur such as runtime, version control or work item tracking conflicts. They should always be expected and additional time for conflict resolution needs to be taken into consideration when planning...

The TFS Integration Tools offer us user value mapping and the Lookup Service when we need to map users from the source to the target systems. While options are great, we need to decide when to use one or the other or both of these technologies. Let’s...

The Rangers have made their first appearance in the MSDN Magazine ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/default.aspx ) with a discussion on branching and merging. Next time we will be visiting Team projects and Team project Collections. See you ...