The Rangers shipped Visual Studio 2010 TFS Upgrade Guide

Finally!!! I got a TFS 2008 setup (multi-server environment) here and we’re in the process of tackling the (historically that is) dreaded TFS upgrade…so it simply just couldn’t  come at a better time!

Pure Gold: Visual Studio 2010 TFS Upgrade

Visual Studio 2010 TFS Upgrade Guide
Welcome to the Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 Upgrade Guide. This guide covers scenarios which may be encountered during and after the upgrade process. It provides examples of most common and potential issues. It covers scenarios related to general Upgrade Process, Work Item Templates, Reports, and Enterprise TFS Management (ETM). Although this guide refers to TFS 2008 scenarios, almost all the concepts apply also to TFS 2005.

Visual Studio ALM Rangers
This guidance is created by the Rangers who have the mission to provide out of band solutions for missing features or guidance. This content was created with support from Microsoft Product Group, Microsoft Most Valued Professionals (MVPs) and technical specialists from technology communities around the globe, giving you a real-world view from the field, where the technology has been tested and used.

What is in the package?
A single document with the following contents:
1 Introduction
2 Upgrade Process
3 Scenarios
3.1 Upgrading Projects from Multiple TFS 2008 servers into one TFS 2010 server
3.2 Upgrading severs when SQL Mirroring is enabled
3.3 Recovering system if upgrade fails midway
3.4 Updating Team Project Portal for an existing Team project
3.5 Splitting Team Project Collection into Multiple Collections
3.6 When I move a Team Project Collection, how do I move the reports?
3.7 Bringing Workgroup Machine inside Domain
4 Frequently Asked Questions
4.1 Can I use a TFS2008 Process Template to create team projects in TFS 2010
4.2 How can I enable Agile Workbooks in upgraded Projects
4.2.1 Enabling the Product Backlog Workbook
4.2.2 Enabling the Iteration Backlog Workbook
4.3 How can I enable Test Case Management in upgraded project
4.4 How can I enable Branch Visualization in upgrade projects
4.5 How can I enable Lab Management in upgrade projects
4.6 What is WIT Admin Tool
4.7 What happens to my custom reports created in TFS2008 post upgrade?
4.8 Will my old TFS2008 reports work post upgrade?
4.9 Can I add a new Database to my existing TFS 2010 farm?
4.10 Error bringing cloned Team Project Collection online
4.11 Move Team Project Collection Database from one Database server to another Database Server
4.12 How to enable the TFS reports if the WSS server is upgraded to MOSS server?
4.13 How to Move Team Projects from one Team Project Collection to another
5 References

LIDNUG: What’s new in C# 4.0 with O’Reilly author and MVP, Joe Albahari

The Linked .Net Users Group is putting on a huge range of “shows” in the next couple of months – starting with an absolute kick-ass presentation by Joe Albahari (www.albahari.com) the author of C# 3.0 in a Nutshell and the upcoming of C# 4.0 in a Nutshell, plus not to forget he’s the creator of one of the best LINQ tools out there – LINQPad.

yes, i know that it’s on Australia Day here, but it’s at 7AM – not quite drunk yet and what better way to kick off the day with some supreme geekdom!

About the event:

Title What’s new in C# 4.0
Venue Live Meeting
Date January 26, 3PM PST
Cost FREE (duh!)
Presenter Joe Albahari (http://www.albahari.com)

joseph_albahari Joe Albahari, author of C# 3.0 in a Nutshell, is a software architect and developer with 17 years' experience in the health, education and telecommunication industries.

He is currently a Systems Architect at Technosis in Australia.

Joe has a keen interest in LINQ, and is author of LINQPad - the code snippet IDE for interactively querying databases in LINQ.

He specializes in integrating LINQ into corporate multi-tier applications and creating extensions to maximize query composability.

Joe is also a C# MVP.
About the event: C# 4.0 introduces some of the most controversial new language features to date - including optional parameters, named arguments and (horror) dynamic typing!

In this presentation, Joe will demonstrate C# 4.0's new features in a practical context, exploring potential uses, benefits, traps and best practices.

You'll see a novel design pattern that may change your opinion on dynamic programming, and also how C# 4.0 simplifies interop with Office, COM and dynamic languages such as Python.

Register for the event:
http://events.linkedin.com/LIDNUG-Whats-new-C-4-0-Joe-Albahari/pub/208474

MSDN AU Book club, Big algorithms made easy with F# (presented by Joel Pobar)

Microsoft Australia is really kicking off this year – seeing more and more this year – and it’s only January!!!!

Now, the fellas are going all out and throwing the MSDN Australia team in gear by launching the MSDN Australia Book Club – this event is organised by Andrew Coates.

First up is Joel Pobar who’s going to run through his awesome presentation “Big Algorithms made easy with Microsoft F#”.

Here’s some more information if you’re interested:

http://blogs.msdn.com/chlong/pages/msdn-book-club.aspx

Want to be first with the MSDN AU news? Why not join the MSDN AU LinkedIn Group and get the scoops straight away!

Visual Studio tips and tricks – the work goes on

One of my great friends, Zain Naboulsi, has taken up the gauntlet and is continuing Sara Ford’s work with the Visual Studio Tips and Tricks series.

Find the first 9-10 tips here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/zainnab/archive/tags/Tips+and+Tricks/default.aspx

It’s good to see Zain pump out the T&T’s as fast as he is, with VS2010 coming (hopefully) just around the corner.

LIDNUG: A lap around Telerik Developer Tools for Web Developers

First event for LIDNUG in 2010 – Telerik is sending their very best: Todd Anglin.

A fellow MVP and also Telerik Chief Evangelist, Todd Anglin’s known for his huge contributions to the community as well as his book “Introducing Silverlight 1.1” which was released in June 2009.

As usual, this is a Live Meeting event and will be recorded.

About the event:

Title: A lap around Telerik Developer Tools for Web Developers
Venue: Live Meeting
Date: January 7, 11:00AM PST
Cost: FREE (duh!)
Presenter: Todd Anglin (http://blogs.telerik.com/ToddAnglin/Posts.aspx)
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Todd Anglin is an active .NET community member, President of the North Houston .NET User Group, an O’Reilly author, Microsoft MVP and Telerik's Chief Evangelist.

At Telerik, Todd is responsible for educating Telerik's global community of developers and helping ensure Telerik's products serve the needs of .NET developers around the world. In the general .NET community, Todd is an active author and speaker, focusing primarily on ASP.NET and Silverlight.

About the event:

telerik-logoAs pragmatic developers, we want to find ways to minimize the time we spend writing “standard” code so we can maximize the time we spend writing code that makes our businesses money.

Telerik offers many tools and components designed to enable just that: maximum developer productivity. Come join Telerik Chief Evangelist and Microsoft MVP Todd Anglin for a quick lap around the various tools and components Telerik now makes to maximize the speed of web development.

Everything from advanced server controls for ASP.NET AJAX to modern UI extensions for ASP.NET MVC to related tools like OpenAccess ORM and Telerik Reporting will be covered. Come figure out how these tools can be used together for great results in your next project.

Two Telerik Premium Collection licenses will be given away to randomly selected attendees of this session.

Register for the event: http://events.linkedin.com/LIDNUG-Lap-Around-Telerik-Developer/pub/147370

Developing with Windows 7 with Visual Studio 2010

WinCast on 12/15 @ 11:30am Pacific with Yochay Kiriaty


Title: Developing with Windows 7 with Visual Studio 2010 -- An Overview


Abstract: Yochay Kiriaty is Microsoft's premier Technical Evangelist on Windows 7. Come join the fun as he provides insight into how to leverage this exciting new platform with our latest tools. Learn about JumpLists, Thumbnails, and much more!

Here’s the link for the LiveMeeting session: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/join?id=3B784D&role=attend&pw=PN6.%3CQ%5Drb

Yochay’s blog: http://windowsteamblog.com/blogs/developers/default.aspx

MSDN Subscribers will get full version of Team Foundation Server

msdn Previously when you had a premium MSDN subscription, you’d get access to Team Foundation Server Workgroup edition (5 cals) which was perfect for small development teams. The full version had to be purchased as a seperate product – that’s no longer needed.

With the release of Visual Studio 2010 the MSDN team is expanding the content of the subscription to include a full blown version of Team Foundation Server 2010!

What this means is that you can get up and running now with Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 and Team Foundation Server 2010 now and you’re covered for licensing with your MSDN subscription.

It’s obvious that we’re seeing big changes lately – perhaps some of it could be credited to Joerg Lindner? I’d like to think so.

See the details for the Ultimate MSDN offer for developers.

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LIDNUG: Phil Haack in the hot chair, open Q&A on ASP.Net MVC – Dec 14 10:30AM PST

Ever wondered what ASP.Net MVC is all about? Well, you now hat the chance to ask all the questions of Phil Haack when he takes a seat in the hot chair for a full Q&A on ASP.Net MVC at the Linked .Net Users Group (LIDNUG).

More and more applications are utilising the extremely flexible/powerful MVC framework and with the latest release of Project Orchard (Open Source ASP.Net MVC CMS) on CodePlex it’s now even easier to get going with ASP.Net MVC. ASP.Net MVC 2 has also just been released to Beta.

About the event:

Title: Phil Haack in the hot chair – open Q&A on ASP.Net MVC
Venue: Live Meeting
Date: December 14, 10:30AM PST
Cost: FREE

Register here: http://events.linkedin.com/LIDNUG-Phil-Haack-hot-chair-Q-ASP-Net/pub/144220

About Phil Haack:

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Phil is a self-professed geek, Open Source supporter (running the Subtext project) and a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft on the ASP.Net team working on the ASP.Net MVC framework.

He’s an internationally acclaimed author (Amazon), speaker and technology evangelist.

Moreover, he’s a family man…

Phil Haack’s blog: www.hacked.com
Phil Haack on twitter: www.twitter.com/haacked

ASP.Net MVC: www.asp.net/mvc

You don’t want to miss out on this event….

Spam that social media….

We all know, and expect, to see ads when we hit the movies for that latest blockbuster – the “pre-show” as it’s called, is of course advertisement and you know, and again expect, it to be around 15-20 minutes long – it’s a long running tradition and we’re generally ok with it. does it stop us from hitting the movies on a friday/saturday evening with your partner? no, most likely it wont.

We also know that web sites, blogs, forums et al contain adverts – in most cases they’re non-intrusive – in some they actually block you from entering the site proper before you either have to find a “skip this crap” link or watch it all to the end – does it stop us from visiting our favourite web sites/blogs? no, most likely it wont.

Then there’s of course the emails – we know, and still expect, to get hit with ads at some stage – either solicited or unsolicited. Some more than others. does it stop us from using email? no, most likely it wont.

Now, since this phenomenon took hold – well, say sometime last week – social media…that’s your MySpace, Facebook, LinkedIn, Twitter et al – ads are becoming more and more frequent – we still know, and still expect, there to be ads. does it stop us from using it? no, most likely it wont. However, the “owners” of these social media fads needs to spend an enormous amount of time/resources in battling spammers.

Yeps, we all have a love/hate relationship with them – in some cases the spammers are becoming more and more ingenious and are using phishing techniques to try to get hold of your account details, contact lists, friends lists et al – undermining the general “trust” your nearest contacts has in you – and i say you because more and more often, you can identify yourself with both your RL identity and your online identity. Hell, i have gaming friends that, even though knowing my real name, still calls me by my gamer tag.

So, since the connection between your identities are closely connected in many cases, hijacking your Facebook account is pretty much close to identity fraud.

We know the dangers – it’s nothing new…don’t click on links from people you don’t know/trust (insert caveat here)…don’t open that email attachment from that nice gentleman in Nigeria…those free pills and porn access links probably shouldn’t be investigated further while you wait for that download to finish.

social-groupYet it’s still happening – very, very often at that…sometimes with malicious intent…sometimes to make a statement…but mostly, it’s done with a financial incentive in mind.

Of course, having the most secure password isn’t going to help us out much if we’re silly enough to hand it out to every person/site who asks.

Twitter is seeing a LOT of phishing and spamming going on these days – even direct messages from people you don’t follow (that’s supposedly a prerequisite). the most common one is the “mention” type spam.

Basically a list of followers are scraped using an account on Twitter – and then it just goes through that list and tweet to you and voila, since your Twitter client, in most cases, has the “mention” tweets, you’ll be seeing it.

So, we expect the ads, and in some cases the spam – are we going to stop using social media anytime soon, even knowing the dangers involved both from a “trust” and “identity” perspective?

no, most likely not….

 

 

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LIDNUG: Scott Guthrie Talks Shop 3 recorded session now available

Yeps folks!! the recording from todays open Q&A with Scott Guthrie is now available for download.

Scott answered questions across the board, both about current releases, upcoming releases and specific platform/product features.

Needless to say, Scott’s a fountain of knowledge!

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Download the recorded session here: http://www.lidnug.org/presentations.aspx

LIDNUG: Scott Guthrie Talks Shop III, Monday 23 Nov 11:30AM PST

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Didn’t attend PDC – want to hear what the biggest announcements was straight from The Gu himself?

Well, now you have a chance – The Linked .Net Users Group (LIDNUG) is holding an open Q&A session with Scott Guthrie on Monday the 23rd of November, at 10:30AM 11:30AM PST (UTC-8).

Hell, even if you attended PDC 09 and was right in the middle of things, you know as well as i do that you can’t be everywhere at once and here’s your chance to ask Scott the questions you really wanted to at PDC 09.

To register for this free event, use your LinkedIn account and click here:

Want to keep up with all the other LIDNUG events coming up, including Phil Haack on Dec 14, simply subscribe to our Live calendar here:

Look forward to seeing you there!

Note: Apologies for the mishap with the time – my computer had inadvertedly applied daylight savings change, which we no longer do here in WA. Correct time is 11:30AM PST.

Zune going global – Microsoft shows some love to Australia!!

zune-rocks What can i say – i’ve been harping on about this “outage” ever since I got my hands on my first Zune!

And now Microsoft is showing some Love for us down under – because the Zune is coming to Australia.

In total, 18 countries will see the Zune hit the markets – and this also means the addition of the highly valued subscription service from Zune Marketplace.

http://www.techau.tv/blog/zune-coming-to-australia-17-other-countries/

Naturally, i’m a big fan of the Zune Player, as well as my Zune device.

To date, i have 65,000+ plays in the Zune Player and as i’m an avid music lover (all types of music) i’ll be on the Zune Marketplace as soon as it’s available for me.

zune-rocks2 

The latest version of the Zune Player (software?) had a ton of new additional features, including the Zune Mini Player…

zune-mini

and the QuickPlay feature as well – where you can set up “DJs” for easy music list creation.

full-zune

Now, again i’m waiting – we don’t have a timeframe for this…but…would it be too much to hope for something this Christmas?

don’t know – nobody’s spilling the beans (obviously) but i now know what i have to pester my highly beloved and cherished goddess of a wife for this Christmas!

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Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4 framework training kit available for download

With the upcoming release of Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4 now's the time to get cracking writing some code and getting familiar with our new, and improved, IDE.

Download link:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=752CB725-969B-4732-A383-ED5740F02E93&displaylang=en

Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4 framework training videos on Channel9:

http://channel9.msdn.com/learn/courses/VS2010/

LIDNUG: Project “Dublin” overview for application developers – Craig McLuckie

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LIDNUG is bringing you an action-packed two months, leading up to Christmas. The first in a range of highly anticipated talks is Craig McLuckie’s Project “Dublin” overview for application developers.

The session will cover the following topics:

  • An overview of “Dublin”
    • “Dublin” service hosting extensions for .NET 4 – the role of the workflow management service, “Dublin” federated instance control capabilities, service autostart to reduce latency on first activation
    • Monitoring and troubleshooting .NET 4 WCF and WF services – a consolidated ETW based event model, open and extensible monitoring database
    • Deployment and configuration of .NET 4 WCF and WF services –service deployment with configuring services to work with “Dublin”
    • “Dublin” tooling –PowerShell based scripting layer, InetMgr plugin that provides an at-a-glance dashboard for service health, rich event querying capabilities, and supports most service related administrative tasks
  • How to get the most out of “Dublin” extensibility
    • Durable services extensibility
    • Monitoring extensibility
    • Tooling extensibility

Register for this event: http://events.linkedin.com/LIDNUG-Project-Dublin-Overview/pub/153377

Event Date: November 10, 2009

Event Time: 10:00AM-11:30AM PST (GMT-8)

Visual Studio 2010 got a new logo – you like?

Not so long ago we saw a new logo revealed for the Microsoft .Net framework – the “Wave” logo was widely received as being a huge improvement and many loved it.

microsoft-net-logo

Just around the corner comes a new version of Visual Studio – 2010 which promises to be  the next best thing after sliced bread (that’s my personal opinion btw).

One of the small (and in all honesty, insignificant really) news is that there’s a new logo.

“Infinitely” nicer than the old one, yet still carrying the basic shape with it that we saw in previous Visual Studio versions.

Old Visual Studio Logo

New Visual Studio Logo

vs_logo vs2010

As i mentioned, it still has the  same basic shape – very similar to the “Inifinite” sign – word play/picture play anyone?

It has the same flowy design and colours we saw in the Microsoft .Net logo, yet the colour is a bit different.

Question now is (and yes i know, it’s not that important), do you like the modern look?

Yay or Nay?

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 available for MSDN subscribers

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 – probably the most anticipated release of the VS family – has just hit a milestone. It’s reached the MSDN subscription downloads!

VS2010 Beta 2 available to MSDN
http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2009/10/19/vs-2010-beta-2-is-now-available-for-msdn-subscriber-download.aspx

VS2010 Licensing Changes
http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2009/10/19/vs-2010-licensing-changes.aspx

4 new SKUs, Express, Professional, Premium, Ultimate

What’s new in VS2010 and Learning about VS2010
http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2009/10/19/learning-about-vs-2010-beta-2.aspx

TFS 2010 Compatibility with older clients
http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2009/10/19/tfs-2010-compatibility-with-older-clients.aspx

Update:

Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 will be available to the public on the 21st of October, 2009 (for those not endowed with a MSDN subscription)

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LIDNUG: Visual Basic.Net with Lisa Feigenbaum, Oct 29

Another stellar line of speakers are coming to LIDNUG – On the 29th of October we’ll be visited by Lisa Feigenbaum for a good look at Visual Basic.Net.

Lisa is a Program Manager in the Visual Basic team at Microsoft. She’s going to talk about what’s new in VB.Net and answer any questions you have.

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Thursday, 29 October 2009

Time

 

10:30 AM – 12:30 PM

 

Subject

 

Visual Basic .NET with Lisa Feigenbaum

 

Registration

 

http://bit.ly/UZeXW

     

Lisa Feigenbaum is a Program Manager in the Visual Basic Team in Microsoft. She's going to talk about what's new in VB.NET and answer any questions you might have.

blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/vbteam/archive/tags/lisa%20f eigenbaum/default.aspx

Download IE8 and MSFT will donate $1.15 to Feeding America (charity)

It doesn’t matter what flavour you prefer when you browse the big interweb today, you can still contribute to helping out.

Microsoft is donating $1.15 for each download of IE8 from here – if you’re upgrading from IE6 they’ll double the donation.

The donation is given to Feeding America.

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So, contribute in your own way – and it costs you nothing – by clicking here to download IE8.

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Tech.Ed AU 2009 – Sara Ford fan club

A good friend of mine, Mike, is even more of a social butterfly than i am. So, since he’s totally excited about going to Tech.Ed this year (who isn’t???) and because he’s a geek, he kicked off the Sara Ford Fan Club at Tech.Ed AU 2009.

After talking things over a few times it’s been organised to have a Geek Meet-Up on Tuesday evening, where Sara Ford will be attending too – check out the LinkedIn Tech.Ed Australia Group for details:

Tech.Ed Australia (Teched)

Lastly, we talked about getting some buttons made up – and Mike came through with them.

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So, if you, like many many others are fans of Sara Ford seek us out at Tech.Ed and get your own :)

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LIDNUG: Scott Guthrie session recording now available for download

225px-MIX_Keynote-Scott_Guthrie_09_MS_05_2007 It’s almost like a broken record, but i still can’t stop saying it – Scott Guthrie absolutely rocks!

In his open Q&A session for the Linked .Net Users Group (LIDNUG) he again dazzled us all with his “geeky” brilliance..seriously, i’m starting to think there’s at least a couple of thousand Gu clones walking around for him to retain that much knowledge!

In a 1 1/2hr session he answered questions from the attendees (252) and it was as usual a brilliant session.

For those that missed out – here’s a tidbit…The Silverlight team is working hard on Silverlight 4 already….He owns other coloured polos as well, not just red ones (????).

Lastly, head on over and download the recorded session from our archives – my voice’s still rather raspy/croaky etc, so i elected not to speak during the session (nobody’d be able understand me anyways).

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