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Team Foundation Server administration and setup

January 2007 - Posts

How to handle VSSConverter UserMap.xml files for users who no longer exist
When running the VSS to TFS converter (VSSConverter.exe) one of the most common questions I hear is how to create a UserMap.xml file for users who are no longer with the company or have had their accounts renamed. My first suggestion is that any customer Read More...
WSS Rant – Linking to the latest version of a sharepoint document considered harmful. (Lessons 6 and 7)
SharePoint does not have persistent hyperlinks for all document revisions. More specifically – SharePoint has two methods for linking to documents: the canonical path and the revision paths. The canonical path is the latest copy of the document at the Read More...
WSS Rant - finding out what changed is much more difficult then it should be. (Lessons 4 and 5)
In my previous rant I made this statement (quoted out of context): Migrating WSS content to TFS? Piece of cake. Just enumerate each WSS change and replay the action in TFS. If you are doing an incremental migration then just enumerate those changes that Read More...
New Years without snow is ... great. (Want to find out?)
Happy New Year and all that. I spent the long weekend at Myrtle Beach soaking up rain or sun - depending on the moment you checked. I’ve been out of Fargo for a year now, after nearly 30 years living in Minnesota and North Dakota . I wasn’t timid about Read More...
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