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February 2008 - Posts

Tuesday, February 26, 2008 9:37 PM

Are you affected by display name change in TFS?

In an earlier post , Dan had posted the details on how a display name change in Active Directory doesn't automatically get updated in all the areas in TFS and about the retroactive tool to fix this issue. If you are a TFS administrator who has had to
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Sunday, February 24, 2008 3:00 PM

Demo - tutorial 2: Building TFS reports using Excel and Excel Services

Here's another demo from the same reporting talk I presented sometime last year (video #1 available here ). This demo shows building TFS reports in Excel that go against the TFSWarehouse Cube. Excel 2007 had some great features that make building such
Posted by Ameya | 3 Comments
Friday, February 22, 2008 8:38 PM

Demo - tutorial: Building a TFS report using Report Designer

I gave a talk to an internal team sometime last year on building TFS reports. The talk was recorded and I rediscovered that video a few days ago. I did a couple of report-building demos during the talk. Here's one of them:       Ameya Bhatawdekar
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Thursday, February 21, 2008 4:50 PM

OranTech Project Party

Technorati Tags: Project Server , Connector , OranTech , ProjectParty This week I met the team from OranTech and saw a demo of their ProjectParty solution. ProjectParty connects Project Server 2007 and with Team Foundation Server 2005.  It synchronizes
Posted by Ameya | 3 Comments
Wednesday, February 13, 2008 12:15 PM

Can I move work items assigned to one user to another using TFSWitDisplayNames tool?

Short answer is - no. This post is the result of a question from one of our customers who had the following scenario: 1. They have an external developer with a domain account (domain\JohnDoeExternal) 2. The developer gets hired by the company, so they
Posted by sunder | 2 Comments
Tuesday, February 12, 2008 12:50 AM

As of Today TFS Cube Report in Excel

This walk through shows you how to get started using Excel to build a TFS report displaying Cube data relative to today. When you build a report using an Excel Pivot Table often you want to filter that data by a date relative to today. For example you
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Friday, February 08, 2008 5:07 PM

Work Item Tracking usability improvements - Part 2

In Part 1 , I covered the following usability improvements we made in TFS 2008: drag-and-drop attachments , field name in tooltip , drag-and-drop columns and MRU field list . Here are the rest of the features. Project scoped field list The list of fields
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Friday, February 08, 2008 5:06 AM

Value Propositions, Experiences and Features revisited

A long time ago, I wrote a post on the internal project management processes we are using in Developer Division.  It was all about Value Propositions, Experiences and Features .  A year later, I'd like to revisit that and dive into the process
Posted by sbhatia | 4 Comments
Thursday, February 07, 2008 8:01 PM

We're hiring in Program Management too!

In my earlier post on hiring , I mentioned that there were a couple of job positions that hadn't made it to the external job site yet. Well, the position on Program Management has made it now!  [ Link to apply (Job code: 211115)] And the description:
Posted by sbhatia | 1 Comments
Thursday, February 07, 2008 12:34 AM

FAQ #6: How do I change the frequency that the reporting warehouse updates?

This tip comes from Markus Hain : The default update frequency is 3600 seconds (1 hour), below are the steps to change the time. 1. Log on to the application tier of Team Foundation Server. 2. Start Internet Explorer. 3. In the Internet Explorer Address
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Wednesday, February 06, 2008 9:39 AM

FAQ #5: How do I destroy work items or work item types?

In order to destroy work items or work item types, you'll need TFS 2008 and you'll need the TFS 2008 Power Tools . There are two commands: DestroyWI: You can use this to destroy one or more work items. DestroyWITD: You can use this to destroy an entire
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Tuesday, February 05, 2008 6:29 PM

FAQ #4: How do you change to format of a date on a work item?

Recently, we were asked: A customer wants to format the dates in the Work Item to the format of DDMMMYYY (e.g. 05Feb2008) instead of the standard MMDDYYYY (e.g. 02032008) This answer comes from Aliaksei Baturytski on our team: You can change the way date/time
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Sunday, February 03, 2008 3:37 AM

Radius 90 v2 from 90 degree software has Analysis Services Support!

Last month, 90 degree software released their Radius 90 v2. The Radius tools are all about making report design and analysis simple. Radius 90 has an easy-to-use Fluent UI style made popular by Office. One of the key additions was the support of Analysis
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Friday, February 01, 2008 11:49 PM

FAQ #3: How do I find the location of the OLAP cube?

I've heard this one a couple of times and asked it myself a couple of times.  When I use Excel to do an analysis of the project data, I need to connect to the OLAP cube (Data->From Other Sources->From Analysis Services). I get a dialog that
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