It’s that time again; get ready to upgrade to TFS 2015
With the release of Team Foundation Server 2015 CTP you should be starting to plan your upgrade strategy. It’s going to be a tough one but you should get ready […]
Could not find mappings for all states defined in ‘Test Suit’ work item type
After upgrading to TFS 2013.3 you get some reports of errors in MTM from your users. Specifically they get a “Could not find mappings for all states defined in ‘Test Suit’ work item type” error when connecting. I have also seen “TF400860: TestManagement: Version 19, MinVersion: 19” in some cases in the web access.
You can’t use WITADMIN on versions older than TFS 2010
I encountered a bit of a red herring today when I was trying to rename a Work Item Type Definition (WITD) and received the message that you can’t use WITADMIN […]
Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 supports 2010 Build Servers
Did you know that Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 supports 2010 Build Servers? Being able to connect TF Build 2010 Controllers to TFS 2010 is opening up upgrade paths for customers that are currently blocked from upgrading to TFS 2012.
Upgrading to Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 1 in production – DONE
Although many of my customers have been having a go at installing Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 1 themselves one or two have had issues. While these issues […]
Get a free Team Companion licence for Visual Studio 2012 Launch?
I recently posted on Requirement management in the modern application lifecycle and in that post I mentioned a product called Team Companion from Ekobit. Well, to celebrate its 5th anniversary […]
Deploy from Visual Studio 2012 to iOS, Windows Phone, Android and Windows
Today I saw a demonstration by ITR Mobility of their line of business application support for having one code base, written in C# that can be deployed to practically any […]
Upgrading from TFS 2008 to TFS 2010 Overview
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 […]
One Team Project to rule them all
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 […]
VSS Converter – Issue: TF54000: Cannot update the data because the server clock may have been set incorrectly
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 […]