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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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TFS2010: Public Workspaces
Public Workspaces is a feature that we built last year mainly for our internal build lab customers. Before TFS2010, if one user tries to use a workspace that belongs to another user on the same machine, they will receive an error message: No workspace Read More...
Posted 08 November 09 03:35 by grantholliday | 1 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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TFS2010: SQL Queries for TFS Statistics
Brian has been posting TFS statistics from the Developer Division dogfood TFS server for many years.  I’ve updated the queries from TFS2008 to work with Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2. Here are the statistics for the TFS2010 Beta 2 server that Read More...
Posted 23 October 09 01:27 by grantholliday | 1 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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TFS2010: How to make Beta1 SharePoint sites work after upgrading to Beta2
Just like my last blog post on uploading the beta2 process templates to an upgraded beta1 server , I’ll admit that the audience for this blog post is also small. However, we hit this after upgrading our VSTS Pioneer Dogfood TFS server from Beta1 to an Read More...
Posted 31 August 09 02:55 by grantholliday | 0 Comments   
TFS2010: Replacing Beta1 Process Templates with Beta2 versions
Update : It turns out that in the final release of Beta2 (instead of the pre-Beta2 build we’re using), we will rename the existing Beta1 templates to “Process Template X (Beta 1)” and upload new versions of the templates – so this won’t be as painful. Read More...
Posted 31 August 09 02:19 by grantholliday | 1 Comments   
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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VSTS Pioneer TFS2010 Dogfood Server
August 2009 marks an important milestone for TFS Dogfooding at Microsoft. In 2004 there was a dogfood server for parts of the TFS team , then it expanded to all of Team System (VSTS). Then other teams in Developer Division (DevDiv) saw the value of having Read More...
Posted 27 August 09 11:21 by grantholliday | 0 Comments   
How do you update all Work Item Type Definitions on a server?
Today there was a question on one of the lists I’m on, it went something like this: Has anyone written a tool that will batch-update WITD to all team projects on a server? Surely this must be a common scenario? One of the built-in Windows commands that Read More...
Posted 06 July 09 06:28 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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