by Martin Hinshelwood
After installing Windows 8 I tried to do a couple of things that I normally do to set up my computer. I went to enable “Remote Desktop”… but there was no options. Hmm… I wanted to make a change to …
by Martin Hinshelwood
When you are running hyper-v you get the option to create private virtual switches to compartmentalise your network coms. if however you are using Windows 8 it may define those networks as “Public Networks” and tighten up your security so …
by Martin Hinshelwood
No I am not leaving Northwest Cadence. No I am not going to work at Microsoft… well I am, kind of. I have just started an engagement that will see me working as a Technical Product Manager as part of …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have not thought about an upgrade from TFS 2008 to TFS 2010 is quite a while as most if not all of my customers have already made the move to 2010. However one of my colleagues asked if I …
by Martin Hinshelwood
You get a “There is not enough free memory to run this program. Quit one or more programs, and try again.” when trying to do activities in Outlook 2013. Figure: Can’t expand folders without an error This affects both the …
by Martin Hinshelwood
If you have not already seen the Office 2013 Preview has been made available on MSDN and on the Microsoft site. The install is ridiculously easy and includes Outlook 2013, Word 2013 and Communicator 2013. These tend to be the …
by Martin Hinshelwood
After installing Office 2013 on a machine with Visual Studio 2012 you get a “The procedure entry point _Atomic_fetch_sub_4 could not be located in the dynamic link library c:Program Files (x86)Microsoft Visual Studio 11.0Common7IDEdevenv.exe” error when trying to load Visual …
by Martin Hinshelwood
As part of my current engagement I will be moving data from FogBugz via a custom CSV Tip Adapter for the TFS Integration Platform. This an adapter I wrote a while ago to facilitate moving data from Excel to TFS …
by Martin Hinshelwood
While running an integration platform import you get a “TF237165: The Team Foundation Server could not update the work item because of a validation error on the server. This may happen because the work item has been modified or destroyed, …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have talked often of the idea of a Project of Projects in Team Foundation Server and with the new feature in Visual Studio 2012 Team Foundation Server I though it would make sense to revisit. I will talk a …
by Martin Hinshelwood
When you are trying to load your custom Adapter you receive a message stating that it does not exist. Figure: AnalysisProvider 06a2457f-ebba-4979-bc5f-0f5006b8b4e6 not found Applies To TFS Integration Tools 2.2, March 2012 Finding If you check the logs you will …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Following on from last weeks successful Upgrading TFS 2010 to TFS 2012 with VSS Migration and Process Template consolidation I finished off the last of the 20-30 Team Project Process Template migration/upgrades to a customised form on the Visual Studio …
by Martin Hinshelwood
As part of the Migration process the TFS Integration Platform does a whole bunch of checks to make sure that what is being written in indeed what we want to write and what the destination is excepting. as a result, …
by Martin Hinshelwood
You get a Unauthorised Access Exception when the TFS Integration Platform tries to write a file to the ‘C:Program Files (x86)Microsoft Team Foundation Server Integration Tools2768.txt’ folder. Figure: Access denied to Program Files? This is a runtime error that must …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Back in Seattle and another awesome engagement, this time with a local company to upgrade their version of TFS from 2010 to 2012 and migrate all of their legacy VSS databases. Additional they want to take advantage of the new …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Issue During a VSS import you get a TF54000 error with a message of “Cannot update the data because the server clock may have been set incorrectly” Figure: TF54000: Cannot update the data because the server clock may have been …
by Martin Hinshelwood
When running a VSS to TFS import using the VSSConverter.exe you may recieve a “TFTF60014: The username domainusername in the user map file c:tempusermap.xml is invalid”. Figure: TF60014 & TF60087: Failed to initialise user mapper Applies to VSSConverter.exe Visual Studio …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I have been onsite this week in California to deploy TFS 2012 and Lab Management for a company in the computer game industry. Because of limited time I am doing the full install in one day and thus will not …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I was actually a little surprised by one of my customers this week. I was there to help them finalise their deployment of TFS 2010 (that they were currently using only for Source Control) and to present the features to …
by Martin Hinshelwood
I will be running a bunch of demos on a couple of weeks with TFS & Eclipse working together. Although I have a cloud instance that I can connect to, what about when I have no network.