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Queensland Spotlight on Mobility Program (Brisbane) -Chance to win a free Palm Device!

Thursday 5 June 2008 there will be a Presentation on the Microsoft Mobility Program at the Brisbane Convention Centre.

The Program is a competitive initiative amongst Microsoft Queensland Partners to develop the best mobility solution. The finalists will present their innovative mobility solutions and YOU get to choose the winner!
Come along also for your chance to win many giveaways, including one of the very latest Windows Mobile device from Palm (RRP $999)!
This year our keynote speakers are:
· Peter Grant, State Director, Microsoft – Queensland, Northern Territory and Pacific Islands
· Grace Kerrison, Mobile Communications Business Director, Microsoft – Australia and New Zealand
Agenda:          7:45am | Registration & Exhibition | Light Breakfast
8:15am | Welcome & Introduction
              Spotlight 2008 Overview
              Partner Solutions Showcase
Audience Voting
What is ‘Extending the People-Ready Business’?
Winner Announcement
10:00am | Close
To Register:    Places are limited, so please send in your RSVP by Thursday 29 May - REGISTER HERE
This invitation is open to all Microsoft Partners and Customers, so please feel free to pass this onto your colleagues and customers that may be interested in attending this unique and exciting event. If you experience any problems registering or have any questions, please contact our program manager, Yen Ngo on v-yengo@microsoft.com.

 

 

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Another new Rosario Specification Released: Team Foundation Server Properties

The new Rosario specification can be found here: Team Foundation Server Properties 

Remember new specifications are always getting put up at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/bb936702.aspx

and feedback can be supplied at: Discuss and Provide Feedback Here

Demo Competition at the Brisbane UserGroup

Anthony Borton is running a demo competition at his usergroup in Brisbane - should be a lot of fun if you happen to be around!

What’s in it for you?

You’ll have the opportunity to be in the running for some unbelievable prizes – including the Grand Prize of a trip to Tech.Ed 2009 in Los Angeles, a Media Center PC and Visual Studio Team Suite 2008 plus MSDN Premium Subscription.

You’ll also have the adoration of all those present at the user group meeting on the day and the chance of getting a roaring round of applause J

Why should I attend?

Come along and support your fellow user group members. Learn what they have found to make their jobs easier with VSTS2008, SQL2008 or WIN2008. <bribery>There are also bags of goodies to give out on the day and there’s enough for everyone that attends</bribery>

Meeting details

QVSTSUG June meeting
Friday 13th June (1 week later than usual)
7:30-9:00am as usual

You can find out more about this promotion on the Heroes Happen Here website at http://www.microsoft.com/australia/heroes/community.aspx

To volunteer to present a demo during our next meeting, please email Anthony@qvstsug.org asap to reserve a spot.

TechEd Australia site is live

The boys in Australia just launched the Teched Australia site:

http://www.microsoft.com.au/teched/

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Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Update

The Team Foundation Team has just updated the the much loved Team Foundation Server Power Tools:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/tfs2008/bb980963.aspx

 

Also one of our MVP's (Ed Blankenship ) ran into a problem uninstalling the December Power Tools version with a 1001 error. Below are the steps to follow if you receive Error 1001 uninstalling the December 2007 Power Tools. 

 

Issue

See Error 1001 attempting to uninstall the December 2007 release of the Team Foundation Power Tools

Solution – Repair then Uninstall

Go to Control Panel, Add Remove Programs.

Select the Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2008 – December 2008 release

Press Change

Select the Repair option.  Press next.  Complete the repair.

After the above is finished, Attempt the uninstall (i.e. press the remove button)

Cause

September 2007 Power Tools was previously installed and removed. The September power tools uninstall process is removing files needed by the December 2007 uninstall.

Brian Harry's blog now in Japanese?

I have only done the first couple of posts but still pretty cool!

Check it out at:

http://blogs.msdn.com/tfsjpn/default.aspx

 

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The MVP's are in town this week!

Been a busy weekend! 

The MVP's are in town this week and as a gift for coming out we are getting them all external hard drives. I even volunteered to fill with content for them; -just wish i had done the math of how long it takes to put 50gb on 100 hard drives!   Just to make matters more interesting the company put the MVP and Team System logos on the wrong size drives! (there were supposed have been 320gb and they shipped 250gb)

Not certain what we are going to do about that as i am NOT going to copy the content over again!

Also had Brian Keller over yesterday to school us in Rock Band and Anthony Borton is over tonight to help me empty the liquor cabinet, fill the hard drives and build the MVP sign stands - shouild be a fun night!  (Just hope nobody gets back out the Rock Band stuff or won't get anything done!

 

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Australia QLD usergroup this Friday

The next meeting of the QLD VSTS Users Group is scheduled for this coming Friday, 18th April. Come along and hear Carl Rogers tell us all about Improving Team Productivity via Process Enactment with Team Foundation Server.

Venue:                                Microsoft Theatre 1, Level 9 Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle Street Brisbane QLD 4000

Time:                   7:30am Brekkie, 8:00-9:00 Presentation

RSVP:                   Please RSVP by clicking the following link and registering to attend. This new system will help streamline the registration and catering for the meetings. If you have any problems with the new registration system, please email Anthony@qvstsug.org and let me know.

Register for this event by clicking here

Session Details:

Improving Team Productivity via Process Enactment with Team Foundation Server

Session Abstract:

Process MeNtOR TeamGuide leverages the infrastructure provided by Team Foundation Server to provide a dynamic process composition capability that accelerates team productivity.
This presentation will demonstrate how to define, publish, compose and execute your application development process that fits the size and style of your project – regardless of whether your process is based on SCRUM, Prince2 or CMMI.
The presentation will highlight the new features within Release 2 of Process MeNtOR TeamGuide for VS2008.

Speaker:             

Carl Rogers – Object Consulting

Carl Rogers is a Principal Consultant and Process Development Architect for Process MeNtOR®, Object Consulting’s own component-based software development methodology and a strategic piece of intellectual property for the company.

Carl has over 20 years of experience in information management and analysis gained across the finance, defence and commercial airline industries. He has worked with the major software development methodologies and technologies and thrives on aligning business processes to appropriate technologies in order to deliver innovative solutions.

In addition to managing Process MeNtOR, Carl works within Object’s Capability Improvement Division focussing on delivering properly planned, managed and tracked capability improvement initiatives to improve an organisation’s ability to deliver quality software.

Carl holds a Bachelor of Science from the University of Melbourne and a Graduate Diploma in Information Technology from the University of Southern Queensland. He is a member of the Australian Institute of Management (AIM), International Institute of Business Analysis (IIBA), and an Associate Member of the Australian Computer Society (ACS).

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MSDN Usergroup Queensland "A Case Study: Using TFS to support long-running deployment projects".

I have sat in on this presentation and it is definitely worth doing -if you are in Australia-grin

Title: "A Case Study: Using TFS to support long-running deployment projects".

Synopsis:
The Sunshine Coast Regional Council is half of the way through deployment of a new records and document management system, a project that is planned to take up to another two years.  This session will focus on how TFS has been used to support the development cycles, and to support the system customisations and custom tool development associated with the project.  Experiences installing, configuring and upgrading TFS, customising task templates, introducing new users, working with "template" tasks and developing tools that interact with TFS will be covered, as well as general Q&A on a real-world small-team project.

Dylan will also share his experiences with upgrading from Visual Studio 2005 to Visual Studio 2008.

About Dylan:
Dylan is The Sunshine Coast Regional Council's Integration Analyst, and leader of the council's EDRMS Project Technical Team

 

Date: Tuesday 15 April
Time: 17:30 for 18:00 - 19:30
Location: Microsoft Brisbane office, Level 9, Waterfront Place, 1 Eagle St, Brisbane

These details are also on our website at www.qmsdnug.org.

RSVP
All welcome.  Bring your colleagues.  If you haven't already done so, an immediate rsvp by email to mike@fitzsimon.com.au will help with planning.

New CTP's for Work Item Web Access and Team System Web Access 2008

Hakan Eskici and TFS team just released a CTP for Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 and Work Item Web Access.

Team System Web Access (TSWA) 2008 SP1 (CTP)

Work Item Web Access (WIWA) 2008 (CTP)

New P and P application block: Unity Application Block

 

The Unity Application Block (Unity) is a lightweight, extensible dependency injection (DI) container. It facilitates building loosely coupled applications and provides developers with the following advantages:

· Simplified object creation, especially for hierarchical object structures and dependencies;

· Abstraction of requirements; this allows developers to specify dependencies at run time or in configuration and simplify management of crosscutting concerns;

· Increased flexibility by deferring component configuration to the container;

· Service location capability; this allows clients to store or cache the container.

·          MSDN site: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc468366.aspx

·   Community Forum: http://codeplex.com/unity

Great slide deck on "What is new in VSTS 2008"

Just trolling the next for VSTS content and stumbled on Martin Woodward's presentation:

Team Foundation Server 2008 - What's New Talk

With out a doubt my favourite slide in the presentation is slide 15:

"Team Build 2008 / 2005 Compatibility" slide which does a gap analysis of what is new.

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I need to create a slide that captures the features for Arch, Data, Dev and Test roles that mirrors this this design!

New episode of Radio TFS

In this episode the boys are talking about Visual Studio Team System 2008 Development Edition.  "Looks" to be  a good one!

http://www.radiotfs.com/2008/04/01/RadioTFS04VisualStudioTeamSystem2008DevelopmentEdition.aspx

Enjoy!

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