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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
Tuesday, September 15, 2009 3:13 PM

Unable to Create Team Projects On a Fresh Install of TFS 2008 SP1 on IIS7; TF201072

I’ve just installed TFS 2008 SP1 (slipstreamed) and could connect to my new server however could not create team projects.  Having run the BPA and it come back clean I was a little baffled until I stumbled upon the IIS role and spotted the “HTTP
Posted by Jason Neave | 0 Comments
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 6:18 PM

VSTS 2010 Beta 1 Installation

Is easy.  Very easy in fact, upgrade isn’t much more difficult either!  There is a fantastic video showing how to download and install the bits need to test VSTS 2010 beta 1 at the 10-4 home on msdn.com http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4/10-4-Episode-20-Downloading-and-Installing-Visual-Studio-2010-Beta-1/
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Wednesday, April 01, 2009 11:22 AM

Windows Home Server Power Pack 2 and Recorded TV

Power Pack 2 has been released, huzzah!  There are a lot of new features in the box for remote access but my favourite has to be the Media Centre Connector.  This enables your Media Centre to access your Home Server shares a lot easier, including
Posted by Jason Neave | 1 Comments
Thursday, March 19, 2009 4:48 PM

Custom Build Tasks

Just came across a great project to create a number of customer build tasks for TFS Build.  It is quite in depth and includes the ability to zip files produced by the build and use FTP to transfer files from within the build definition. http://msbuildtasks.tigris.org/
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Thursday, March 19, 2009 2:55 PM

Troubleshooting the TFS Data Warehouse

A nice guide someone just pointed out to me on MSDN: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms244674.aspx Seems to be a great guide to troubleshooting data warehouse issues, I guess the clue was in the name :)   Jason
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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:
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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
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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
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Friday, July 25, 2008 1:46 PM

Windows Home Server and Live Mesh

Regular readers of my blog will know I've been a fan of Foldershare on Home Server for a while now. The main reason for this is a simplified version of "Offline Files" that works across the internet. It also works as a nice backup when remote access fails
Posted by Jason Neave | 2 Comments
Friday, July 25, 2008 1:08 PM

Win32 Error Codes and HRESULT Definitions

Not the snappiest of titles though if you are debugging Win32 applications, COM servers or just see a random error code in your event log these two mapges may be of help... HRESULT Values Win32 Error Codes I'll try and come up with something more interesting
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