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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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Permissions required for Team Build Retention Policy in TFS2008
I got a question from one of our internal email lists today: Our TFS build service is owned by a generic build account – domain\tfsbuild. We have retention policy set up to retain a fixed set of builds. The old builds were deleted when viewed via Team Read More...
Posted 25 June 09 04:34 by grantholliday | 1 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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Visual Studio Team System 2010 Team Foundation Server Beta 1 Installation Problems
First of all, see my last post Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1 Download Links for all the download links and installation docs. Also check out Brian Keller’s post on Using a download manager to quickly download Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 . We greatly Read More...
Posted 20 May 09 12:38 by grantholliday | 8 Comments   
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What’s the difference between tf workspace /delete and tf workspaces /remove?
Today I needed to delete multiple workspaces. There are two separate commands for dealing with workspaces. The first is the “ tf workspaces ” command: tf workspaces /remove :(*|workspace1[,workspace2,...]) /server:(*|server) The second is the “ tf workspace Read More...
Posted 14 October 08 05:59 by grantholliday | 1 Comments   
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Book Review of Team Foundation Server 2008 in Action
Earlier in the year I was contacted by Manning Publications to participate in the Manning Early Access Program (MEAP) . They provided me with an unedited draft of a new book " Team Foundation Server 2008 in Action " (ISBN 1933988592) by Jamil Azher and Read More...
Posted 30 August 08 09:16 by grantholliday | 3 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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