Review Part 3: Two Months with Intel Haswell Harris Beach SDS Ultrabook
Now that I have had two months with the Intel Haswell Harris Beach SDS Ultrabook I thought that it would be a good idea to give you an update. You can check out Part #1 & #2 below however in this post I want to concentrate on Windows 8.1 with the SDS.
PowerShell TFS 2013 API #1 - Get TfsCollection and TFS Services
Have you ever wanted to use PowerShell to interact with the TFS 2013 API? Well I have been working through a few scenarios and wanted to get them to you so that I can get some feedback.
Granting access to Team Foundation Server 2012 for diagnostic troubleshooting
In TFS 2012 the product team added a way to get to the tbl_Command information without needing to connect directly to the SQL Server and having access to the tables. This was an awesome add as being able to diagnose server issues and troubleshoot user reported problems makes us a little more efficient.
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Issue [ TFS 2013 ] TF255466 A previous update or installation requires a restart
After you have installed SQL Server 2012 Service Pack 1 you may encounter the error “TF255466 A previous update or installation requires a restart” when trying to install TFS 2013.
What's new in Visual Studio 2013 and TFS 2013 RC
As you may have noticed the Visual Studio team has just put out a Release Candidate to the log awaited Visual Studio 2013 and TFS 2013. If you have been unable to install Visual Studio 2013 RC on Windows 8.1 Preview then you want to immediately get to grips with the new features. I would recommend that you have a look at What’s new in Visual Studio 2013 Team Foundation Server Preview for two reasons. I am going to assume that you have seen the aforementioned features and it should give you some idea of the pace of features improvement you get by being on the same cadence as the TFS product team.
Upgrading from the TFS 2013 Preview to TFS 2013 RC
With the TFS 2013 RC being made available I need to upgrade one of my main customers from the TFS 2013 Preview. I have been working with a fairly progressive customer that has no qualms to using the latest version of any software as long as it is supported. They have around 500 developers in Team Foundation Server and 2-3TB of data. No that was not a typo. Although they have 500 active engineers there are around 9000 user accounts that have permission to TFS. This is the Engaging with complexity – TFS Edition customer that was moving through many environments. They since managed to streamline their processes and I have been working with them for a while. We have done maybe 10 to 15 upgrades of the 2TB collection across five separate environments over the last few months practicing for the production move. All with Team Foundation Server 2013 Preview. And we have had no problems at all. Indeed when we moved to 2013 many of the issues that we had disappeared.
Unable to install Visual Studio 2013 RC on Windows 8.1 Preview
When you try to install Visual Studio 2013 RC (or Visual Studio 2013 RC Team Foundation Server) you get the message “Error: This version of Team Foundation Server is not compatible with Windows 8.1 Preview”
Professional Scrum Foundations coming to Glasgow, Scotland in November 2013
For too long has Scotland been ignored in Professional Scrum Training. I am not sure if there has ever been a Scrum.org course held here as I could not find one and the last time Ken was here was way back in 2004.
Review Part 2: Developing with Intel Haswell Harris Beach SDS Ultrabook
It has just over a month since I received my Intel Haswell Harris Beach SDS Ultrabook from Intel to review and I have to say that I love this little laptop. I have been trying to use it exclusively and have done pretty well.
There is no "do agile" there is only "be agile"
I commented on Scrum is hard to adopt and disruptive to your organisation before and I think that for most companies this is just beyond their comprehension. They are fundamentally misunderstanding agile and trying to do agile rather than be agile.
