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Thursday, June 25, 2009 4:09 PM

Windows 7: Be first. Save half.

You know I love me some Windows 7, and if you’re like me, you’re going to love this too… Pre-order Windows 7 today at Microsoft Store . You'll get it for at least half off and be one of the first to get it. Hurry, quantities are limited.* It's pretty
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Thursday, June 25, 2009 12:11 PM

Mounting .VHDs in Windows 7 \ Windows Server 2008 R2 with a simple mouse-click

One of the coolest features in Windows 7 (all my personal machines at work & home are now Win7 or WS2K8R2, BTW <g>) is the native ability to mount .VHD files (virtual hard drives). As you know if you are a loyal reader (PLUG: if you’re not,
Posted by Trevor Hancock | 3 Comments
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 4:11 PM

Adding external build data to TFS

Wendell Phillips brings us today’s post about adding external build data to TFS. -Trev   I recently found a need to add build data to Team Foundation Server 2008 from an external build process.  TFS ordinarily only maintains and processes build
Posted by Trevor Hancock | 1 Comments
Friday, June 19, 2009 3:21 PM

The TFS Performance Report Pack and SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services

Grant Holliday has created a great set of TFS performance monitoring reports, called the TFS Performance Report Pack. These reports, and instructions for uploading them to SQL Server Reporting Services, are available on his excellent blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/granth/archive/2009/02/03/announcing-tfs-performance-report-pack.aspx
Posted by jimsau | 0 Comments

Attachment(s): SRS2005CompatibleReports.zip
Tuesday, June 16, 2009 1:06 PM

Problems configuring TFS 2010 when resource has underscore (_) in name

A user of TFS 2010 recently reported a problem when configuring it after the installed had laid down the bits. Seems they had installed SQL 2008 to a instance named “TFS_BETA”. They then ran the configuration wizard of TFS 2010 and selected the custom
Posted by CSSTFSBLOG | 4 Comments
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Monday, June 15, 2009 11:30 AM

A few notes on PROXY and Team Foundation Server

Last week saw a couple interesting requests and references around TFS and proxy. I thought I’d share… 1. Augusto Alvarez has a nice post over on his BLOG that details Publishing Team Foundation Server 2005 (Single-Server Mode) with ISA Server 2006 . It
Posted by CSSTFSBLOG | 2 Comments
Friday, June 12, 2009 2:33 PM

TFS 2005 to 2008 Upgrade Best Practices… and some for VSTSWA 2008 as well

The following post come from Vimal Thiagaraj (VIM), a member of our TFS setup and install team. Vim provides us today with a best practices document for upgrading from TFS 2005 to TFS 2008 SP1, and for upgrading\installing VSTSWA (TFS web access) 2008
Posted by CSSTFSBLOG | 1 Comments
Thursday, June 04, 2009 5:04 PM

“Synchronization Engine has Crashed” error when migrating work items using the TFS to TFS Migration Tool

Today’s post comes from Brett Keown. As they worked on a supported issue together, Brett and a recent customer also had the opportunity to speak about the CodePlex “TFS to TFS Migration Tool” . The TFS to TFS Migration Tool is not supported by Microsoft
Posted by CSSTFSBLOG | 0 Comments
Tuesday, June 02, 2009 12:31 PM

TFS 2008 Reports Fix (for issues when using SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services) Released Publically

  http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB969210   As promised some time ago , we have now put this fix up for public consumption. You no longer need to contact Microsoft support in order to acquire this fix. We have also included localized copies
Posted by CSSTFSBLOG | 7 Comments
Monday, June 01, 2009 3:34 PM

BLOGS! BLOOOOGS! Get your BLOGS here!!

There are a lot of BLOGs at Microsoft. Just finding them all can be a challenge, let alone filtering them down to a nice list from which to pick your favorites and those most relevant to you. BlogMS attempts to help you in that. Described as a directory
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Monday, June 01, 2009 3:05 PM

Users of MOSS 2007 – Watch out for SP2 “trial version reset” issue

If you us Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 with your TF server and have applied the recently released Service Pack 2 to it, chances are that the MOSS server now thinks it is a 180 day trial version, and in 180 days client access will be denied.
Posted by CSSTFSBLOG | 0 Comments
 
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