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August 2009 - Posts

VSTS 2010 101 Guidance get’s the thumbs up for BETA-1

In June we introduced Steven and the “Steven Scenario” here , which was the core reason for this ambitious initiative based on Steven’s request: “ Can you tell me about TFS and VSTS in 5 minutes ”. Two months later, on Friday August 28th, we forwarded Read More...
Posted Monday, August 31, 2009 4:58 PM by willys | 2 Comments

Silent (Passive) Office Installation using PowerShell

As part of our VSTS Rangers automation exercise, I was confronted with two basic questions: How do I install Microsoft Office silently? How can I install Office, then Project and then Service Pack 2 sequentially using Powershell? To tackle the first hurdle Read More...
Posted Friday, August 28, 2009 9:29 PM by willys | 0 Comments

New VSTS Rangers Project - VSTS 2010 "DataDude" Guidance

Lee is heading up this exciting project. Included in this post is the vision and the objective of the project, whereby I am more than happy to discuss more details with you if needed. For the sake of text re-use, all text indicated in italic has been Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 27, 2009 5:58 PM by willys | 0 Comments

TFS Migration Tools – More questions, news and stats

More questions?!? We received another batch of interesting questions and I would like to summarize them here and include the answers, courtesy of Bill and his team, and VSTS Rangers working on the exciting initiative. Does the migration toolkit support Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 27, 2009 5:32 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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Presentation Skills … a la Chuck … part 1

Charles , alias Chuck , who works with us in the DevX Customer and Project Management team, is hosting internal, interactive, informal, invaluable and fun presentation skills sessions. Chuck and his sessions are truly amazing and therefore you should Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 27, 2009 5:31 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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TFS Migration Tools – Session Re-Run Feedback and some interesting dogfooding stats

Thanks to everyone who attended our TFS Migration Tools TR9 re-run and a special thanks to Bill Essary and his team for supporting the VSTS Rangers “again”. Apart from me running on my server after re-installing my laptop with Win7 over the weekend and Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 22, 2009 6:58 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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The new SA Architect community site emerges

Driven by Robert , the new SA Architect community site has emerged in South-Africa. Please visit the site and let us know what you think. The SA Architect community is servicing the South-African architecture community, is hosting the popular quick reference Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 22, 2009 6:55 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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VSTS Rangers Site is Live!

We have been working to create a home for the VSTS Rangers and their projects, to recognize the phenomenal contributions made by Team System experts and to better understand the interest in our VSTS Rangers projects. Thanks to Sharon , we now have our Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 22, 2009 3:31 AM by willys | 0 Comments
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Virtualizing VSTS 2010 Guidance – how is the automation going?

The Virtualizing VSTS 2010 project is well under way and apart from working on virtualisation guidance around TFS and VSTS, we are also automating the creation and configuration of the VSTS Rangers base image. We are investigating a number of automation Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 20, 2009 1:27 AM by willys | 0 Comments

VSTS Rangers Projects – summary of projects covered on this blog

This post is simply a collection of the various posts that covers VSTS Rangers projects. Last update posted on: 16 November 2009.   … these are released projects which have been covered on this blog, click URLs for more information. VSTS Ranger Projects Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 20, 2009 1:28 AM by willys | 0 Comments

When you question whether you are setting a good example for your kids…

When I finally their found my youngest son, snoring away in front of their PC at 5AM in the morning, I started to wonder if we are setting a good and healthy example for our kids :) He obviously wanted to finish whatever he was busy with on the PC, but Read More...
Posted Friday, August 14, 2009 12:01 AM by willys | 3 Comments
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Ramon puts Brazil on the TFS map with the “Managing software projects using Visual Studio Team System” book

Ramon Durães , Team System MVP,  has just announced that his book “Managing software projects using Visual Studio Team System” has been released in Brazil. The book’s menu is very exciting and includes a tour through VSTS: Application lifecycle management Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 13, 2009 3:02 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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VSTS Rangers Projects Status: Current Projects on path of completion and new projects lurking over the horizon

It is an exciting time of the year in which we are busy completing a batch of strategic guidance projects aimed at team Foundation Server (TFS) and Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2010. We are well on track to release as planned with TFS|VSTS 2010 BETA-2, Read More...
Posted Wednesday, August 12, 2009 7:05 AM by willys | 0 Comments

TFS Migration Tools: Wandering into the caves of migration scenarios

In recent posts  we looked at the configuration file ( VSTS Rangers Project - TFS Migration Tools: Configuration Demystified ) and some getting started questions ( VSTS Rangers Projects – TFS Migration Tools: Getting Started Questions ). The theme Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 09, 2009 5:02 PM by willys | 0 Comments

Abbotsford International Air show … leaving the laptop at home for the day :)

I enjoyed an entire day disconnected from the bits & bytes world, enjoying the Abbotsford International Air show this weekend. It was an interesting, hot-dog filled and spectacular day of flight from the old days, the current and the future. Here Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 09, 2009 5:00 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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VSTS Rangers – Introducing the VSTS Rangers recognition program

We recently asked the MVPs and Community Leads who are currently contributing to VSTS Rangers projects for input as to what is important to them and what we should consider as part of a recognition program. We listened, analysed the feedback and are in Read More...
Posted Friday, August 07, 2009 4:07 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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VSTS Rangers – What’s on the remaining 2009 menu?

At TechReady 9, our VSTS Rangers chief, introduced the chef’s menu in the Chalk Talk (CT) sessions. The top chef was, as mentioned previously, Bill Heys who cooked up a storm in the Branching Guidance CT as shown in the illustration below: … master chef Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 06, 2009 10:13 PM by willys | 0 Comments

VSTS Rangers Projects – TFS Migration Tools: Where has the link relationship vanished and why?

Dogfooding “ Rocks ”. While dogfooding the TSF Migration Tools Getting Started Walkthrough for the umpteenth time, I was suddenly staring at a problem I had never seen before and one that I could not understand. What followed was a restore of base snapshot Read More...
Posted Monday, August 03, 2009 6:46 AM by willys | 0 Comments
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VSTS Rangers – Who are the experts? The VSTS Rangers, the field engineers or the product group?

I have been mulling over a comment (there is always the one) in our VSTS Rangers session feedback for some time, trying to figure out how we can address it in future TechReady events. It was last night, after dropping off our son at the airport and watching Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 02, 2009 3:32 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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After six months … how is it going with my VSTS Rangers Assimilation and bubbling (r)evolutions?

Strange accent … or “you talk funny” as my son would say During the past few TechReady days, I realised that accent and communication amongst different cultures from countries all over the world within Microsoft can be a challenge, especially at conferences Read More...
Posted Sunday, August 02, 2009 7:01 AM by willys | 1 Comments
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VSTS Rangers @ TR9 … the last day and all in all a successful event!

The VSTS Rangers @ TR9. Top left is Bill , middle is Pramod during his Upgrade session and on the right Mike . On the bottom, starting from the left is Bijan , James , Ted (Team System MVP), Anthony (Team System MVP) and Willy. Ted and Anthony supported Read More...
Posted Saturday, August 01, 2009 6:44 AM by willys | 0 Comments
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