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TFS2010: What happens to subscriptions after an upgrade?
Both TFS2008 and TFS2010 allow users to create subscriptions to events. These can be Work Item events, CheckIn events and others. They are created via the ‘Project Alerts’ option in Team Explorer or Web Access, or the ‘Alerts’ feature in the Team Foundation Read More...
Posted 10 December 09 09:48 by grantholliday | 0 Comments   
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TFS2010: Object Model API changes after Beta 2
Based on feedback that we received both internally and externally we decided to make a rather significant change to the TFS client object model.  This change centers around the TeamFoundationServer, TeamFoundationApplicationInstance and TeamFoundationServerBase Read More...
Posted 07 December 09 11:41 by grantholliday | 0 Comments   
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TFS2010: Older clients not able to connect
When the Forward Compatibility GDR for Visual Studio 2008 shipped, a change was made to the Team Foundation Server 2010 code that blocks incompatible clients. That means that after TFS2010 beta2, clients that don’t have a forward-compatible patch installed, Read More...
Posted 07 December 09 11:08 by grantholliday | 0 Comments   
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TFS2010: Troubleshooting SharePoint Dashboards data source problems
In the TFS 2010 release, if you have the Enterprise features of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) configured (i.e. Single Sign-On and Excel Services), then you can make TFS Excel Reports available to your users via a web site.  This is very Read More...
Posted 03 December 09 02:13 by grantholliday | 0 Comments   
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VSTS Pioneer TFS2010: SQL Backups
( See this summary on the VSTS Pioneer dogfood server and all the other posts .) Having an adequate backup strategy for your Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server is a very important part of any deployment. I’ll share with you how we are running backups Read More...
Posted 13 November 09 02:29 by grantholliday | 0 Comments   
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VSTS Pioneer TFS2010 Dogfood Server: Statistics October 2009
( See this summary on the VSTS Pioneer dogfood server and all the other posts .) As with the last few months, October was another busy month for dogfooding TFS. Since the Pioneer server has been such a success for Work Item Tracking and Source Control, Read More...
Posted 06 November 09 01:21 by grantholliday | 0 Comments   
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TFS2010: Diagnosing Email and SOAP subscription failures
Sometimes emails alerts such as "Work Item Changed" will fail to send.  Sometimes SOAP (web service) subscriptions will not be called correctly. To diagnose these, you can look in the tbl_JobHistory table in the Tfs_Configuration database. Read More...
Posted 28 October 09 06:33 by grantholliday | 3 Comments   
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VSTS Pioneer TFS2010 Dogfood Server: Upgrading
( See this summary on the VSTS Pioneer dogfood server and all the other posts .) One of the major goals of the Pioneer Team Foundation Server is to upgrade it to early builds so that we can get some “bake time” with them and feel confident with what we’re Read More...
Posted 19 October 09 01:58 by grantholliday | 0 Comments   
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VSTS Pioneer TFS2010 Dogfood Server: Statistics September 2009
( See this summary on the VSTS Pioneer dogfood server and all the other posts .) September was a busy month for dogfooding TFS – all of the VSTS team were completely moved across and on 9/17 we upgraded to an almost final TFS2010 Beta 2 build. Here are Read More...
Posted 19 October 09 12:13 by grantholliday | 1 Comments   
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TFS2010: Installing pre-requisites from the command line
On the Team Foundation Server team, there is a new build of the server every night that comes out of our build lab. These vary in quality throughout the development cycle and the QA teams look at them and rate them as “Self Test”, “Self Test (with workarounds)”, Read More...
Posted 18 October 09 11:31 by grantholliday | 0 Comments   
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Scripting Team Project Creation in TFS2010
In TFS2008 SP1 and the subsequent power tools release it was possible to create a team project from the command line. You can read Will-Peter’s detailed blog post on Creating a Team Project from the command line in TFS2008 . In TFS2010, it’s still not Read More...
Posted 25 September 09 02:17 by grantholliday | 1 Comments   
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VSTS Pioneer TFS2010 Dogfood Server: Statistics August 2009
(This blog post is part of a series of posts on the new VSTS Pioneer TFS dogfood server .) Everybody loves statistics, so here are the statistics for the first month on the VSTS Pioneer server. Recent Users: 415 Work Item Tracking Users with Assigned Read More...
Posted 27 August 09 02:44 by grantholliday | 0 Comments   
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VSTS Pioneer TFS2010 Dogfood Server – Hardware & Topology
(This blog post is part of a series of posts on the new VSTS Pioneer TFS dogfood server .) While running the main TFS server for ~3,500 users in Developer Division we got a pretty good idea of the hardware required to support our enormous number of files, Read More...
Posted 27 August 09 11:23 by grantholliday | 3 Comments   
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TFS Adoption at Microsoft – May 2009
As promised last week in my Dogfooding TFS show on the RadioTFS podcast , here is the latest on TFS within Microsoft that myself and Brian have posted about in the past . May had the all-time peak in the total number of unique active users with 15,613. Read More...
Posted 23 June 09 06:26 by grantholliday | 4 Comments   
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RadioTFS Podcast on Dogfooding TFS
Last week I sat down (virtually) with two of our Team System MVP’s - Martin Woodward and Paul Hacker . We had a good chat about TFS at Microsoft which you can listen to on show #22 of the RadioTFS podcast . Play now: Radio TFS #22: Dogfooding TFS with Read More...
Posted 23 June 09 06:22 by grantholliday | 1 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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