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Rangers Virtualization factory … how easy is it to use it?

How difficult is it to create a single server (ATDT) Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Ultimate 2010 image, once you have access to a Rangers Virtualization factory? Well, judge by yourself by looking at the step-by-step guide which I extracted Read More...
Posted Friday, December 04, 2009 5:01 PM by willys | 0 Comments

Rangers Visual Studio 2010 Architect Edition Guidance: Kickoff!

The latest Rangers project just “kicked off” this morning and my next dev lead adventure. Included in this post is the motivation, the vision and the objective of the project, whereby I am more than happy to discuss more details with you if needed. For Read More...
Posted Monday, November 16, 2009 6:59 PM by willys | 0 Comments

VSTS Rangers – New Quick Reference Posters on the Horizon

Here is a list of new quick reference posters that will be making an appearance in the specified projects shortly. We hope that these visualizations will add to the guidance documentation that they are part of … note that these are thumbnails and no attempt Read More...
Posted Monday, November 09, 2009 11:38 PM by willys | 0 Comments

Would it not be great if I could install a Team Foundation Server environment with minimal intervention?

Some good questions … to get the wheels turning: Why are we wasting time on building installations and especially virtual images manually … not once, but multiple times by multiple people? Would it not make more sense investing the energy in adding value Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 27, 2009 4:30 AM by willys | 0 Comments

TFS Integration Platform – VSTS Rangers Log 20091022 … A minor mission update

If you have perused TFS Integration Platform – VSTS Rangers Log 20091014 … the mission and the results to date … the mission and the results to date you have a good understanding of what has transpired. To visualise the previous post, I created the following Read More...
Posted Friday, October 23, 2009 8:34 PM by willys | 0 Comments

TFS Integration Platform – VSTS Rangers Log 20091014 … the mission and the results to date

The Mission When I started at Microsoft back in January, I was briefed on a number of strategic projects I would be responsible as the development lead. The TFS Integration Platform (TIP) was one of the projects, although it was still known as the TFS Read More...
Posted Friday, October 23, 2009 8:30 PM by willys | 0 Comments

Q&A: Why is my VSTS Rangers Image factory based installations running slow as a snail going up-hill?

This is one of probably many question and answer (Q&A) posts focused on the VSTS Rangers Image factory, which I will be introducing on Monday next week. As part of the dog fooding and testing, we have encountered some interesting “self inflicted features” Read More...
Posted Saturday, October 17, 2009 8:23 PM by willys | 0 Comments

Certified Scrum Developer course … we can finally remove the duck tape :)

In September we had the privilege of attending an alpha version of the Certified Scrum Developer (CSD) course, which is jointly developed by Microsoft,  MVPs such as our esteemed Richard and Mike , and the Scrum Alliance . We have finally been advised Read More...
Posted Friday, October 16, 2009 7:47 PM by willys | 0 Comments

TFS Integration Platform – Why are my labels not moving? Question & Answers 5

Common question : “Does the TFS Integration Platform support labels?” Current answer : The current versions of the TFS Synchronization and Migration Toolkit and the latest TFS Integration Platform do not support the migration and/or synchronization of Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 14, 2009 5:47 AM by willys | 1 Comments

TFS Integration Platform – System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Could not allocate space for object … Questions and Answers 3

The past few days have been spent with hectic testing in terms of a number of VSTS Rangers Projects that are on the verge of bubbling to the surface. One of them includes the TFS Integration Platform initiative, where our focus has been primarily on the Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 08, 2009 7:50 PM by willys | 0 Comments

TFS Integration Platform – Summary of Links

As with SDLC and with the VSTS Rangers projects, I am creating a treasure map (more like Willy’s cheat sheet to counteract lack of indexing memory) of links relating to the TFS Integration Platform and the associated VSTS Rangers initiatives. Note that Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 07, 2009 5:10 PM by willys | 0 Comments

Brian the video “Guru”

I had the pleasure of working with and watching Brian Keller record our VSTS Rangers TFS Integration Platform videos today. This dude is a wizard and in my humble opinion is ready for the Oscars for the quality, the special effects and simply the ease Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 06, 2009 1:18 AM by willys | 0 Comments

New VSTS Rangers Project - VSTT 2010 "Team test" Guidance

Geoff 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 Wednesday, September 30, 2009 4:16 AM by willys | 0 Comments

TFS Migration Tools: Should we opt for migration or synchronization? Part 1

With Team Foundation Server 2010 lurking over the horizon, there are many of us thinking “how will we move from our TFS 2005 and TFS 2008 environments to TFS 2010”. A valid and good question and one that has been the topic of a number of posts around Read More...
Posted Saturday, September 19, 2009 3:26 AM by willys | 0 Comments

VSTS Rangers Projects – VSTS 2010 101 Guidance BETA-2

Good news, Steven has given us the thumbs up for BETA-2, after already giving us the same positive feedback for BETA-1 at the beginning September. He thought we could not improve or impress him any further … as always, the VSTS Rangers proved him wrong Read More...
Posted Thursday, September 17, 2009 7:50 PM by willys | 0 Comments
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