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Creating a Work Item with defaults in Team Foundation Server

Creating a Work Item with defaults in Team Foundation Server

In some cases you want to be creating a Work Item with defaults in Team Foundation Server so that you can give access to users but also give them guidance on what to fill out.

Issue [ TFS2012.2 ] TF30063 You are not authorized to access

Issue [ TFS2012.2 ] TF30063 You are not authorized to access

If you have TFS 2012 Update 2 (2012.2) installed you might get an error after you move Team Foundation Server from one environment to another  (change domain.)

SharePoint 2013 Issue - After migration from 2010 user permission not working

SharePoint 2013 Issue - After migration from 2010 user permission not working

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.

SharePoint 2013 Issue - Custom Web Part results in Could not load file or assembly after upgrade

SharePoint 2013 Issue - Custom Web Part results in Could not load file or assembly after upgrade

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 specified” when you try to access a page.

TFS 2012.3 Issue - Scheduled Backups gives a TF400998 when reconfigured

TFS 2012.3 Issue - Scheduled Backups gives a TF400998 when reconfigured

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.

Writing .NET in PowerShell and creating TFS Teams

Writing .NET in PowerShell and creating TFS Teams

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. On of my colleagues  today suggested that it was harder to create a new Team programmatically in PowerShell than it would in c#. Well I have been playing with PowerShell a lot recently and I decided to give it a go… And do you know what… it is harder… that is.. until you know how.

Restore TFS backups from SQL Enterprise to SQL Express

Restore TFS backups from SQL Enterprise to SQL Express

You can get an error when trying to restore TFS backups that certain features are only supported on SQL Server Enterprise Edition. If you try to restore a SQL Server database that you backed up from an Enterprise version of SQL Server (and that includes Developer Edition) you may encounter an error when trying to restore that database to another SQL Server that is Standard or Express edition.

Remote Execute PowerShell against each Windows 8 VM

Remote Execute PowerShell against each Windows 8 VM

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. With all of the work going on at the office around PowerShell I wanted to have a go and solve another problem I have. I kept running into an issue when using Hyper-V on my local computer. Every so often, to keep them relent, I need to boot each of the virtual machines and run windows updates. My first thought was to create a PowerShell that would update the them automatically, by then I thought… why can’t I push the script out to each of them.

Enable Feedback support for users in Team Foundation Server 2012

Enable Feedback support for users in Team Foundation Server 2012

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 Service.

Quality enablement with Visual Studio 2012

Quality enablement with Visual Studio 2012

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.

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