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VSTS Rangers Projects – TFS Migration Tools: Query => Is the migration from one process template to another a plausible scenario?

This post invites you for input on a possible scenario we are considering as part of the guidance for the VSTS Rangers TFS Migration Tools project, which is listed as one of the VSTS Rangers initiatives mentioned in the index post here . We would appreciate Read More...
Posted Friday, July 31, 2009 2:11 AM by willys | 10 Comments

VSTS Rangers Projects – Virtualizing the Deployment of VSTS 2010: Query => Which image flavours are “crucial” and which are “would be nice”?

This post invites you for input on a number of possible image scenarios we are considering as part of the guidance for the VSTS Rangers Virtualizing the Deployment of VSTS 2010 project, which is listed as one of the VSTS Rangers initiatives mentioned Read More...
Posted Friday, July 31, 2009 2:08 AM by willys | 2 Comments

VSTS Rangers Projects – A few “fun” pictures from TechReady where the VSTS Rangers cooked up a storm

Just a humorous update, proving that the often serious VSTS Rangers can also cook up a storm and have fun. Enjoy some of the snapshots made during TechReady9 VSTS Rangers sessions: << Bijan, chief and father of the VSTS Rangers Mike, from the TFS Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 30, 2009 9:09 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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VSTS Rangers Projects – Virtualizing the Deployment of VSTS 2010

With TechReady about to start and many (we hope) discussions around the VSTS Rangers projects to spin up, we are wondering at the back of our minds whether we are on the right track and addressing all the requirements. As you know from previous project Read More...
Posted Monday, July 27, 2009 2:11 AM by willys | 0 Comments
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VSTS Rangers Projects – What’s on the menu? Introducing delicious “Chalk Talk Cafe Menus” …

Bijan had a great idea to create “menus” for the upcoming Chalk Talk sessions at TechReady 9, starting on Monday 26th July. It is T-2.5 days and counting … :) … here are five of the exciting menus:   TechReady9 is a recurring Microsoft-internal training Read More...
Posted Friday, July 24, 2009 9:59 PM by willys | 0 Comments

TechReady9 – Two VSTS sessions you should not miss at the event!

I just watched one of our dry-run sessions, during which “the” Cameron demonstrated the power of architecture explorer , drilling down to class and method level, use of name filtering , the historical debugger and the test impact features in a precision Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 22, 2009 4:28 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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VSTS 2010 – Have you noticed the new “personalised” alert option?

In Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2008 we had the following email alert options in team Foundation Server (TFS): In TFS and VSTS 2010 BETA-1 we have a more personal email alert option available for the builds :) The journey of discovery as part of our Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 22, 2009 2:44 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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VSTS Rangers Projects – TFS Migration Tools initiative feedback … thereafter 2 weeks of possible radio silence

We are ramping up for TechReady9, as mentioned in VSTS Rangers Projects – VSTS 2010 ‘101’ Guidance is evolving , and have just frozen and uploaded the early bit for the TFS Migration Tools as well. We have a number of green robots ( traffic lights on Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 18, 2009 7:40 PM by willys | 0 Comments

VSTS Rangers Projects – TFS Migration Tools: Is it feasible to move from TFS 2008 to 2010 and back to 2008?

We recently received the question in terms of the TFS Migration Tools “ Can I migrate from TFS 2008 to TFS 2010 ”, for which the answer was easy: Yes . The next not so obvious question we received was “ Can I migrate from TFS 2010 to 2008 ”. It is not Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 18, 2009 7:39 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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VSTS Rangers Projects – VSTS 2010 ‘101’ Guidance is evolving

Before you go for an eye test or dig out your microscope to decipher the content of the next image … stop. The intention is not to show you the detail, because we are still in the process of revising and finalising the content, but to support the transparency Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 15, 2009 9:06 PM by willys | 0 Comments

VSTS Rangers Projects – TFS Migration Tools: Getting Started Questions

As part of the VSTS Rangers initiative we created a “Getting Started” guide for the TFS Migration Tools. The document serves as a entry point to the solution, giving the user a walkthrough of the main artefacts of the platform, and will also be re-used Read More...
Posted Sunday, July 12, 2009 4:05 PM by willys | 0 Comments

Migration and Integration Solutions Page appears on MSDN

Yesterday a new page emerged on MSDN here . It consolidates information related to conversion to and integration with Team Foundation Server (TFS), embracing tools from Microsoft, partners and the community, as well as supporting services. It includes Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 11, 2009 4:00 PM by willys | 0 Comments

VSTS Rangers Projects … so who is contributing?

Instead of rambling about the VSTS Rangers projects or some of the nitty-gritty details, it is time to switch the hat and focus on the “humanoid” factor. The question as to what makes the people “volunteering” to work on VSTS Rangers projects is best Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 09, 2009 4:00 AM by willys | 0 Comments
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Agile Vancouver Community Event … a summary of an exceptional event

The event Agile Vancouver – Scrum at Microsoft took place last night and I counted 98 attendees, which brought the total attendance to a nice 100 with the two presenters included. The presenters Gabe Brown and Adam Meltzer from Microsoft, gave us an exceptional Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 08, 2009 8:42 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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VSTS Rangers Projects – Dogfooding VSTS 2010 BETA-1: Two hiccups you should not stress over

As part of the VSTS Rangers projects we have been dogfooding the VSTS 2010 BETA-1 release extensively and here are two issues we picked up and reported … both of which are resolved and will be available in future releases. In the meantime, be aware of Read More...
Posted Monday, July 06, 2009 5:04 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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VSTS Rangers Projects – Learnings from Virtualising the deployment of VSTS adventure

While we have not yet embraced Windows Server 2008 R2 as we are in a frozen state for the upcoming TechReady9 (TR9) event, we are investigating a future migration to Windows Server 2008 R2 and the new Hyper-V features. See Description of methods to upgrade Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 02, 2009 8:33 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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