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Friday, October 30, 2009 10:41 PM

Installing TFS 2010 Beta2 on Windows Home Server

After many attempts to install TFS 2008 on WHS I ended up giving up on the whole idea.  Reporting Services and WSS kept throwing up roadblocks periodically and seemed to make it more hassle that it’s worth.  From the first rumbling I heard internal
Posted by Jason Neave | 3 Comments
Monday, January 26, 2009 3:03 PM

TFS Backup to Live Mesh

I’ve been thinking about the “little guys” of late and solutions not always available to the small dev groups, offsite backup being one of these. Windows Live Mesh is a solution I’m using for my photo library as the Live Desktop has 5GB of online storage
Posted by Jason Neave | 1 Comments
Wednesday, January 21, 2009 2:37 PM

TFS Permissions: Allow vs. Deny (and a fix)

Allow and Deny permissions can cause confusion in TFS, for the most part deny overrides allow which means an Admin can lock themselves out of a project if they are not careful.  I’ll reference the other blogs I’ve read with regards to explaining
Posted by Jason Neave | 1 Comments
Tuesday, December 02, 2008 2:55 PM

Resetting Reporting Services 2005 for Team Foundation Server

Nine times out of ten most TFS related Reporting Services 2005 issues can be resolved by resetting everything back to the original settings. Follows is a guide on how to do excatly that. Please ensure you back everything up before doing this and it is
Posted by Jason Neave | 1 Comments
Tuesday, December 02, 2008 2:39 PM

Recreating SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 Data Sources for Team Foundation Server

Under some situations you may come across an issue that requires you to delete and recreate the data sources for Reporting Services 2005 for your instance of TFS. An example would be where you need to rebuild your server from a backup but for whatever
Posted by Jason Neave | 1 Comments
Thursday, November 27, 2008 1:39 PM

Team Foundation Server 2008 Disaster Recovery

As I mentioned some time ago I have been writing a few documents to compliment the official documentation. I figured I would start with a flourish and post this document first. I have pasted the Abstract below as a taster for the rest of the document:
Posted by Jason Neave | 1 Comments
Attachment(s): Disaster Recovery Plan for Team Foundation Server 2008.docx
Wednesday, October 22, 2008 12:04 PM

Useful Links

This post is more for myself than anyone, it is a collection of links difficult to find that are nevertheless very useful. If they can help others as well then all the better. Team Foundation Server Customizable Team Foundation Build Targets Team Foundation
Posted by Jason Neave | 0 Comments
Friday, September 19, 2008 9:58 AM

TFS Activity Logging

There is a feature of TFS that allows all commands run through it logged to an internal database. This is the TfsActivityLogging database and one of its key features is that it can never grow to large. If enabled, activity logging will log all commands
Posted by Jason Neave | 0 Comments
Wednesday, June 04, 2008 9:02 AM

How To: Failover a Mirrored Data Tier when the Principle Data-Tier is Not Available

Recently I've been working on SQL mirroring with TFS and concentrating on worst case scenarios, when the principle data tier goes down. The whole point of mirrors with TFS, as I understand it, is high availability. With regards to setting up mirroring
Posted by Jason Neave | 0 Comments
Thursday, May 15, 2008 5:02 PM

Testing TFS in a Virtual Environment

I've been a long standing proponent of virtual environments, for creating isolated test environments or sandboxing test rigs they simply can't be beaten. To that end I thought I would share some of the tricks I have used with the many virtual servers
Posted by Jason Neave | 1 Comments
Thursday, March 27, 2008 7:06 PM

Upcoming TFS Tutorials

I am currently writing a few tutorials for common issues I see with my customers TFS instances, so far I have the following which I will be putting online soon; Reinstalling WSS 2.0 SP2 Checking user permissions within WSS 2.0 Recreating SQL Server Reporting
Posted by Jason Neave | 1 Comments
Thursday, January 17, 2008 10:46 AM

TFS Version Checking and Trial Extention Tool

Brian Harry has released a new version of the TFS Version Checking tool, more information below. http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/01/15/checking-your-tfs-version-and-extending-trials.aspx Not much in this post as this is more for my reference
Posted by Jason Neave | 0 Comments
Friday, January 11, 2008 4:22 PM

Team Development with TFS Guide

Came across this very lengthy, detailed guide on Team Development With TFS and thought I would share it with the class... http://www.codeplex.com/TFSGuide A remarkable amount of information in the guide, enough that I haven't read enough to give a brief
Posted by Jason Neave | 1 Comments
Friday, December 21, 2007 12:53 PM

Team Foundation Server - Overview

I just received a question from a friend of mine, James Alderman (there's your mention James ;) ) asking me what Team Foundation Server is and considering I have had similar questions from my new users on my server for the Dashboard Project I thought
Posted by Jason Neave | 2 Comments
Thursday, December 20, 2007 5:37 PM

Team Foundation Server Administration Tool

Found a nice little tool on CodePlex that I will be looking at further as this project continues; Team Foundation Server Administration Tool http://www.codeplex.com/TFSAdmin It's a nice little app that allows you to see all of the users on each of your
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