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Replying inline in Outlook with [Name]:
Did you know that there’s a feature in Outlook that prefixes your name automatically when you reply inline like this? When you reply to somebody and start replying inline, it automatically changes the font to a new color and prefixes it with [GrantH] Read More...
Posted 05 May 09 05:27 by grantholliday | 1 Comments   
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Hosted Team Foundation Server
Since the Readify TFSNow! hosted TFS offering that I helped to build is no longer in operation, people have asked if there is anybody else doing it. There are three partners that I know of that offer to run and maintain Team Foundation Server in the cloud Read More...
Posted 02 December 08 06:56 by grantholliday | 4 Comments   
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OzTFS, OzMOSS and OzSilverlight are moving to a new mail server
Status update: OzTFS, OzMOSS and OzSilverlight have been migrated. Please note the new addresses that you need to send mail to. These three mailing lists are a valuable resource to the Australian community as well as the global community. Please bear Read More...
Posted 01 December 08 11:58 by grantholliday | 2 Comments   
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Asus Eee PC Netbook
In my recent trip to Australia , I had some time to walk through the shops. One of the things that really caught my attention was the Asus Eee PC . (It’s pronounced “e p c”). I’d heard about these low-cost, low-power netbooks before but I’d never considered Read More...
Posted 27 November 08 07:56 by grantholliday | 3 Comments   
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TFS and the OWASP Top 10 Threats
My first MSDN document has been published. Team Foundation Server (TFS) and the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Top Ten describes how TFS complies with the ten most common threats for web applications. Recently, our sales guys were working Read More...
Posted 26 November 08 07:06 by grantholliday | 1 Comments   
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Remotely connecting to a Hyper-V virtual machine with networking disabled
In a previous blog post, I explained the steps to convert the VS2010 CTP VPC from Virtual PC to Hyper-V . When using virtual machines, sometimes you don’t want them to be connected to any network. This is especially true with the Team Foundation Server Read More...
Posted 10 November 08 10:59 by grantholliday | 1 Comments   
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Querying Perfmon data from SQL
In a previous post I talked about Relogging Perfmon binary log files to SQL . The next obvious step is to query the data from the database. There are two ways to do this: Use Perfmon itself to connect to the SQL data source Use another tool to query the Read More...
Posted 07 November 08 04:41 by grantholliday | 9 Comments   
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Script to configure SQL Server Maximum Memory
I’ve often got SQL Server running on my workstation, laptop or VPC and find that it just soaks up all my memory. This script sets the maximum limit: USE [master] GO -- Set max server memory limit EXEC sp_configure 'show advanced options', 1 RECONFIGURE Read More...
Posted 03 October 08 05:38 by grantholliday | 0 Comments   
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Relogging Perfmon binary log files to SQL
Lately I’ve been doing quite a bit of work with Performance Monitor (or PerfMon for short) to monitor some performance counters on a collection of servers. PerfMon has the ability to log it’s counter collections directly to a SQL ODBC data store. The Read More...
Posted 23 September 08 07:05 by grantholliday | 10 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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