by Martin Hinshelwood
Users coming from a SharePoint 2010 system that try to access SharePoint 2013 after a migration receive a “this site has not been shared with you” message. This mean that they are not able to authenticate to SharePoint 2013.
by Martin Hinshelwood
After an upgrade of a SharePoint 2010 content database to SharePoint 2013 you may get an error message “Could not load file or assembly ‘MyCustomWebPart, Version=1.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, Public Token=6912jju2191j213ggv10’ or one of its dependants. The system cannot find the file …
by Martin Hinshelwood
After a server migration Scheduled Backups gives a TF400998 when you try to reconfigure it. You may also see timeouts and errors when trying to add Team Foundation Console Users.
by Martin Hinshelwood
Did you know that you could be writing .NET in PowerShell? PowerShell can be used to instanciate and call any .NET object and that includes the TFS API.
by Martin Hinshelwood
You can get an error when trying to restore TFS backups that certain features are only supported on SQL Server Enterprise Edition.
by Martin Hinshelwood
Running a remote execute PowerShell against each Windows 8 VM on your Hyper-V host can help you maintain the guest VM’s in a minimal amount of time.
by Martin Hinshelwood
The focus of this article is to show you how to easily enable feedback support for users in Team Foundation Server 2012 with a few simple permissions. This works great with Team Foundation Server and even better with Team Foundation …
by Martin Hinshelwood
In the modern application lifecycle one of the key messages is one of quality enablement. Quality will be the key differentiator between you and your competitors over the next few years and the old excuses are just that… old.
by Martin Hinshelwood
When you are doing a Source Control migration using the TFS Integration Platform you receive a “unable to find a unique local path” runtime conflict.
by Martin Hinshelwood
Configure Test Plans for web access in TFS 2012.2 is a little tricky and we need to be very specific on how we configure it so that our Team can see the right test Plans.
by Martin Hinshelwood
You may get an exception when working with Areas or Teams in Team Foundation Server 2012.2 that results in an Object not set to instance of object with TF51011, TF400898, TF53010 & TF30065 errors.
by Martin Hinshelwood
You may get a “workspace already exists” when you have VS 2008 or VS 2010 installed as well as VS 2012 and you try to connect them to TFS 2012.
by Martin Hinshelwood
For a long time now I have been searching for that perfect domain that epitomised the vision, the why, of what I am trying to achieve with my customers and the industry at large. Now I have found it in …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Northwest Cadence has been working hard with customers to improve their release management in Team Foundation Server 2012. While on the surface it looks like TFS 2012 has little in the way of support for release management, you would be …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Upgrading your process template from MSF for Agile 4 to Visual Studio Scrum 2.x can be a daunting and scary task. While you do need to be careful it is relatively simple to achieve safely.
by Martin Hinshelwood
In the last wave of updates to Team Foundation Service the product team has added a new “staging location” and we now have an un-versioned repository in TFS 2012.
by Martin Hinshelwood
When you are running a build you get a “TF215097 an error occurred while initializing a build for build definition” message and you don’t even get a build number.
by Martin Hinshelwood
Are you worried that you will not be able to migrate from http://tfs.visualstudio.com when they start charging for it and you don’t want to pay? Fear not as we have the technology to migration from TF Service to TF Server …
by Martin Hinshelwood
Working within a single Team Project with Team Foundation Server 2012 provides a lot of benefits. There are however many design consideration for working within a single team project and we need to consider all of the complexities that is …
by Martin Hinshelwood
By the time you hit the AgentScope activity in a TF Build workflow you are already running on the agent and if you have things you need to configure you need to figure out some way to reserve an agent …