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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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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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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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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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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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