June 2008 - Posts

Team Foundation Server and Hyper-V Virtualization
Now that the final Hyper-V virtualization bits for Windows Server 2008 are available people have started asking if Team Foundation Server will be supported as a guest virtual machine. Yes, Hyper-V will be officially supported ( more on Brian Harry’s blog Read More...
Posted 27 June 08 12:28 by grantholliday | 1 Comments   
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New VSTS & TFS Training courses coming up around Australia
Microsoft Learning are due to release two new courses on Visual Studio Team System and Team Foundation Server in the next month or so and a fellow Australian and Team System MVP – Anthony Borton is the guinea pig to deliver them in Australia . 6214 - Read More...
Posted 26 June 08 09:09 by grantholliday | 1 Comments   
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Multi-Value Controls in Work Items
A Multi-Value control is one which accepts multiple values (duh!). This is useful if for example a bug belongs to multiple components. Such a control is not available out of the box with TFS2005 or TFS2008. Fortunately CodePlex comes to the rescue again Read More...
Posted 26 June 08 09:05 by grantholliday | 1 Comments   
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How to: Move your TFS server to a friendly name
As more and more people adopt Team Foundation Server around the world, teams are finding that they’re out-growing their initial hardware. Then what happens is the IT Infrastructure guys say that there’s no more room in the existing data center. Strangely Read More...
Posted 26 June 08 08:56 by grantholliday | 1 Comments   
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Troubleshooting connections to TFS
In my current and previous lives , one of the problems I get involved in is when people can’t connect to Team Foundation Server for some reason. Usually the following occurs: “It was working yesterday but not today” “I haven’t changed anything” "Team Read More...
Posted 26 June 08 08:30 by grantholliday | 6 Comments   
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How to: Move work items between team projects
I’ve written about this previously but it’s worth a re-mention. It is not possible through the Work Item Object Model (API) or otherwise to move a work item between two team projects. The reason for this is that each team project maintains it’s own definition Read More...
Posted 26 June 08 08:14 by grantholliday | 4 Comments   
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Synchronizing a file share with source control
A question came up the other day: I have a directory structure checked into TFS version control.  I’d like to synchronize this with another directory that is not under source control.  Before starting, I have to refer you to the Visual Studio Read More...
Posted 26 June 08 08:03 by grantholliday | 1 Comments   
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Team Foundation Server Proxy blog
Before I joined Microsoft I hadn’t had any exposure to Team Foundation Server Proxy. As you know from Brian’s blog post on the internal dogfood TFS deployment here there are a number of proxy servers deployed – India, Singapore, Europe, North Carolina. Read More...
Posted 26 June 08 06:41 by grantholliday | 2 Comments   
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How to: Copy and paste workspace mappings
One of the very little known tricks when dealing with Workspace mappings in TFS Source Control is that you can actually copy & paste working folders . This can be useful if you need to share workspace mappings between team members. You can just copy Read More...
Posted 26 June 08 06:07 by grantholliday | 1 Comments   
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How do you install Team Build?
The first step should always be “Am I licensed for it?”. This is something you’ll have to determine for yourself but the answer is usually yes. Refer to the Visual Studio 2008 Team System Licensing White Paper for all the details. Here’s an except: It Read More...
Posted 26 June 08 07:43 by grantholliday | 0 Comments   
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Parallel builds of solutions within one Team Project
With Visual Studio Team Build 2008 there is no way to run two builds from within the same Team Project at the same time , although two builds in different Team Projects can run in parallel. Update: I got a few questions about this above statement and Read More...
Posted 26 June 08 07:29 by grantholliday | 4 Comments   
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How to: Make Team Build get a previous version
In Team Build 2008 there is a property called GetVersion . Here’s what the description from Aaron Hallberg’s blog says about it: GetVersion . Passed to the Version property of the Get task. Defaults to SourceGetVersion (see below), but can be overridden Read More...
Posted 26 June 08 12:35 by grantholliday | 3 Comments   
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TFS Orcas SP1 & Rosario Evaluations & Hints
One of the Team System MVPs – Willy-Peter has put together a PDF giving you a walk through of the most recent Rosario CTP . What I love about this is that it’s very easy to consume and pass on to others. Also included is an overview of what to expect Read More...
Posted 23 June 08 10:54 by grantholliday | 1 Comments   
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When does the VSTS Codename “Rosario” April CTP VPC Expire?
One of our newly awarded Team System MVP’s Mitch asked me today when the Visual Studio® Team System Code Name "Rosario" April 2008 CTP (VPC Image) expires. Answer : Tuesday, September 30, 2008 at 5:31 PM Seattle time (which is Wednesday, October Read More...
Posted 20 June 08 12:03 by grantholliday | 3 Comments   
Hello
You might remember me from such blogs as OzGrant.com , mailing lists such as OzTFS.com , the Team System MVP's list and the world's first hosted Team Foundation Server - TFSNow.com . Just over two months ago I interviewed for a position on the VSTS team Read More...
Posted 18 June 08 02:18 by grantholliday | 5 Comments   

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Grant Holliday

I'm a former Team System MVP who relocated from Australia to Redmond, Seattle.

I'm working on the team that supports and promotes TFS for Microsoft's internal customers.

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