An adoption strategy for testing with Visual Studio 2010
Its hard for developers to work with testers and its hard for testers to work with developers. There are many tools out there to help teams break down those barriers between them and I really like both the features and workflow of Microsoft Test Manager (MTM). While I am not a tester, I am a […]
Visual Studio 2010 Overview – A day in the life of … Plan, Code & Test
This session shows the Day in the Life of a project using TFS from the context of a Developer, Tester, and Program Manager. The purpose of this session is to give a clear picture of how someone in the role of the Developer, the Tester and Program Manager would use TFS in his/her role. Update […]
Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Introduction
A high-level overview of ALM and how the features in Visual Studio 2010 support ALM. This presentation touches on all the features shown in the rest of the deeper-dive sessions. If attendees don’t know which other sessions they want, watching this presentation might help them decide. This post is part of a series of Visual Studio ALM […]
Visual Studio 2010 Overview Webcasts
Over the last year I have delivered a variety of high-level overviews of Visual Studio ALM and the features that are available within it. These are all high level overviews even when talking about specific topics, and I have occasionally had to hand wave where things did not go well (Cough… Sharepoint Dev… cough) but […]
SSRS vs SCVMM – The Kerberos token dispute
I have been working with one of my colleagues, Bryon, over the holidays in order to install both TFS and Lab management at a customer. Now that customer has some awesome hardware, but insisted on a physical TFS server. The DL320 with 18 cores, 42GB RAM and 2TB of storage make a pretty fast TFS […]
Always prompted for credentials in TFS 2010?
Sometimes when you setup TFS you find that your users, or just some of them, are being prompted for credentials. While manageable this is annoying and is not really related to TFS. This is an Active Directory thing and yes, there is a workaround… The best way to fix this is to have […]
Creating a backup in Team Foundation Server 2010 using the Power Tools
Over the last few years the product team has been putting their finishing touches on a backup module for the Team Foundation Server Administration Console. Why you might ask do you need another way to backup? Surely you can just backup the bits? Well, you could, but as TFS has a lot of moving parts […]
Process Template Upgrade #3 – Destroy all Work Items and Import new ones
A little while ago I was looking into the best options for upgrading a process template but still keep your data intact, but there is still a little bit of ambiguity on how that is achieved. Lets look at the #3 option from that set in a little more detail. This solution assumes that you […]
Not just happy, but ecstatic
As a consultant I have customers. Unfortunately being a consultant rather than a contractor has the down side that I hardly ever here from my customers after my engagement ends. I just noticed an email from one of my more challenging engagements in the UK for a company that specialises in deploying solutions in Microsoft […]
Testing with Test Professional 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate
On Monday 24th October one of our consultants, Dan Wood, is presenting our course on Testing with Visual Studio ALM. The course is running on Monday 24th October and I managed to get NWC to provide 10 additional seats for you guys at the discounted rate. If you are in Europe then it is a […]