September 2007 - Posts

"The Rename Problem"
27 September 07 06:46 PM | mmitrik | 1 Comments   

One of the migration tools that has been around as long as TFS is the VSSConverter utility.   Some time after the release, when TFS adoption started to grow, and VSSConverter usage started to grow, a strange issue began to be reported by customers: Read More...

Windows Live Writer
18 September 07 12:00 AM | mmitrik | 0 Comments   

I just found out about Windows Live Writer (http://get.live.com/betas/writer_betas ), so I'm giving it a test drive.  Hopefully it will do a better job at managing 5 blogs than me. So far it has appeared to work fine on one of my SharePoint blogs, Read More...

Migrating ClearCase Branches to TFS
13 September 07 09:43 PM | mmitrik | 2 Comments   

After working with several customers on their migrations from ClearCase to TFS, it was evident that one of the big challenges of migrating between such vastly different version control systems was determining an appropriate branching structure. This was Read More...

Filed under: Migration Tools, ClearCase

TFS Migration Tool for Rational ClearCase Released
13 September 07 09:29 PM | mmitrik | 1 Comments   

At last, the migration tool for Rational® ClearCase® is available for free download. This tool provides the ability to migrate ClearCase data to TFS, and it also provides a service that will keep items in sync between TFS and ClearCase. Together, these Read More...

Filed under: Migration Tools, Synchronization, ClearCase