Chicago Visual Studio ALM User Group 27th March
It has been a while since I was at the Visual Studio ALM User Group in Chicago . This time I will be giving a demonstration of the new Work Item Tracking features of Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 which includes Kanban Columns & Work Item Tags as well as a peek at Teams without Areas.
Windows Server 2012 Core for dummies
This is a short idiots guide to setting up Windows Server 2012 Core. Windows Server 2012 Core allows you to use less memory by getting rid of some peskie UI bits and bobs. Setting it up however is a little more challenging.
Guide to ChangeServerId says mostly harmless
If you are cloning your TFS collection then you have to run ChangeServerId. It is reasonably well documented for this senario but what other reasons might you have to run it.
Improvements in Visual Studio ALM from the ALM Summit
There were many new improvements in Visual Studio ALM that were announced at this years ALM Summit event that I can only pick a few to highlight as my favourites. Brian Harry did the keynote on the second day and almost immediately announced Visual Studio 2012.2 CTP 2 and a bunch of new features some of which were made available in TF Service ( http://tfs.visualstudio.com ) immediately.
The TFS Automation Platform is dead, long live the TfPlugable
The TFS Automation Platform is dead, long live the TfPlugable! It has been a long time since I have talked about the TFS Automation Platform that I had almost forgotten about it myself. It was almost two years ago that I spoke to Willy about an ALM Rangers project to build a solution to dynamically deploy plug-ins for TFS, kind of like Nuget for TFS Extensions.
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 are easily resolved it is sometimes nice to have someone else who has done the same thing a bunch of times take the rains.
TFS 2012 Update 1 - TF400432 We were unable to connect to the SharePoint Central Administration
When running the upgrade from Team Foundation Server 2012 to Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 1 you get a TF400432 error stating that the Team Foundation Server configuration was unable to connect to SharePoint administration site.
Teams without areas using a team field in TFS
Did you know that you can use Teams without areas using a team field in TFS? There are numerous reasons to do this but the decision should not be taken lightly.
Quality Centre to Team Foundation Server in one complex step
We have had a large number of customers over the years that desperately want to move from Quality Centre (now HP ALM) to… well… anything else to be honest. The current leader in the ALM space just happens to be my favourite tool, Team Foundation Server, and so I am continuously on the lookout for tools that can help us migrate from whatever the customer is using to Team Foundation Server.
TFS 2012 Update 1 - TF255430: the database was partially upgraded during a failed upgrade
You get an error while upgrading Team Foundation Server 2012 to Update 1 with a “TF254027: You must correct all errors before you continue”, “TF255375: the configuration database that you specified cannot be used” and a “TF255430: the database was partially upgraded during a failed upgrade”.
