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Cannot access the ‘site setting’ on a reporting services instance using IE
Fri, Jul 13 2012 6:28
On site recently I had a problem that I could not access the site settings in reporting services if I used Internet Explorer from an client PC. IE worked fine on the server and other browsers were OK on the client, just not IE. Initially I though it was just rights , but that was not the case Turns out this is down to Kerberos negotiation as discussed in the... Read More...
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Cannot update local workspace in TFS 2012RC due to UAC
Mon, Jun 11 2012 8:50
Whilst preparing the demos for my TFS 2012 ALM session on Wednesday (still places available of you are in the Yorkshire area) , I got the following error whey trying to add a new solution of sample code to TFS Access to the path 'C:\ProgramData\Microsoft Team Foundation Local Workspaces\043519e4-72cf-4cd0-a711-f4bb8b817f30\TYPHOON;432cfb95-26d6-4a68-af26... Read More...
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Drivers needed on my Lenovo W520 with Windows 8 RP
Thu, Jun 7 2012 12:27
I posted recently on running Win8 RP on my Lenovo W520 , well a few days on it is still working fine. I have adopted by usual practice of installing as few hardware vendor drivers/tool as possible, as I tend to find these make matters worse  most of the time. However, I as expected I could not only rely on just what came with Windows 8. On installing Windows... Read More...
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TF215097 when running a build
Thu, Jun 7 2012 12:16
I have been working on one of our build boxes today restructuring our Surface solutions to make better of Nuget. This involved upgraded the Azure SDK on the build box to the new June release , which needed a reboot halfway through the process. After the reboot and tried a new build I got the error TF215097: An error occurred while initializing a build for build... Read More...
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Solution to “We couldn't get your developer Licence for Windows 8 Consumer Preview” on Win8 Server beta
Tue, May 29 2012 4:38
Whilst preparing for the Black Marble Windows 8 event tomorrow (still places available for this free event) I hit problem with VS11Beta and Metro projects. I was sorting out a demonstration of remote debugging, I had a Samsung tablet PC running WIn8CP  and intended to use a WIn8Server CP running inside a VirtualBox VM on Windows 7 PC. I installed VS11 Ultimate... Read More...
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Skydrive pushes me over my broadband usage
Mon, May 28 2012 15:00
I got back from a trip away to find an unexpected bill for broadband  through the letterbox. I have paid about the same each quarter for broadband for a good while now, I don’t see much variation as I rarely use my home phone, then again who does? This bill was nearly double, why? I think it was mostly due to setting up Skydrive to mirror my family photos... Read More...
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Upgrading our blog server from BlogEngine 2.5 to 2.6
Mon, May 21 2012 14:51
A week ago version 2.6 of BlogEngine.net was released . This has plenty of new features such as a new file manager   and image tools , but for us the most important was site aggregation . As I posted about previously, we moved to BlogEngine from Community Server because we need multi blog hosting, but with BlogEngine 2.5 we had to write our own basic site... Read More...
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You do that that PS2 keyboard on that old PC, not a USB one
Thu, May 10 2012 6:52
Whilst using DBAN to clean down some very old PCs for disposal to new homes at good causes I hit a stupid gotcha. I booted off the DBAN CDRom but could not continues beyond the first screen as it did not detect I had pressed the return key. Turns out the PCs were so old that, though their BIOS allowed USB keyboards (and I could enter setup and edit BIOS settings... Read More...
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A fix for my failure to login to TFSpreview.com problems
Thu, May 10 2012 4:49
I use a number of site collections on the Azure hosted Team Foundations Service ( http://tfspreview.com ); I have just solved a problem that I could not login to one of them via Visual Studio (2010, Dev11 or also TEE 11, I tried then all), but I could login to my other collections. Also I could access the collection if I logged in via a browser, just not with... Read More...
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TFS Build error, 'Index (zero based) must be greater than or equal to zero and less than the size of the argument list” when building XAML projects
Wed, May 9 2012 10:45
We had an interesting issue of late building a Surface2 application solution within a TFS 2010 build system. The solution built fine in VS2010 on both my development PC and also using VS2010 on my TFS build box (both Windows 7 64bit PC), so I know I had all the right SDKs in place. However if I built it via TFS 2010 Team Build I got the error App.xaml (136):... Read More...
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Fix for problem faking two SPLists in a single unit test with Typemock Isolator has been released
Mon, Apr 2 2012 10:00
A blogged a while ago about a problem faking multiple SPList with Typemock Isolator in a single test . With the release of Typemock Isolator 7.0.4.0 you no longer have to use the workaround I documented. You can now use the code if the originally planned, and it works as expected 1: public partial class TestPage : System.Web.UI.Page 2: { 3: public TestPage()... Read More...
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Installing the TEE11 Beta as an upgrade to the plug-in in Eclipse
Wed, Feb 29 2012 13:26
The big news today is is that Microsoft released the VS11 Beta , part of which is Team Explorer Everywhere (TEE). (Oh they also release something called Windows 8 too – whatever that is) Whilst upgrading my TEE instance in Eclipse (Indigo) I hit the same gotcha as I had when I originally installed TEE . On Windows, if UAC is enabled you have to run Eclipse as... Read More...
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(Not) Using a Huawei E585 MIFI in the USA
Sun, Feb 26 2012 18:46
I have an unlocked Hauwei E585 MIFI that I use around europe, avoiding roaming charges for my UK mobile contract. I buy a local pay as you go SIM for the appropriate country and off I go. I thought I would try the same here in the USA, where I am for the MVP Summit. I bought a T-Mobile data SIM, but it did not work so well. Basically the issue is one of aerials... Read More...
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You don’t need to keep that old TFS server to support older versions of Visual Studio
Thu, Feb 16 2012 11:57
I have recently spoken to a number of people who were under the impression that older versions of Visual Studio could not connect to TFS2010. This is not the case. So for example you do not need to keep a TFS2005 running for your VS2005 clients. Why you might ask does this question even come up? VS2010 can build any .NET 2.0 –> 4.0 project so why not upgrade... Read More...
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Filtering in MDX Calculated Members
Sat, Feb 4 2012 4:28
BI development is not something I do that often, but from time to time you need to develop a custom report in TFS. I recently had to battle a MDX problem that someone who does more BI development I am sure why have had no issue with; but as with most of these blog posts (or my long term memory as I think of it) I thought it worth a post in case it helps anyone... Read More...
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Have you tried switching it on and off again? Go on be aggressive!
Tue, Jan 31 2012 6:43
We have been building ‘standard’ environments for our TFS Lab Management system. Environments that can be used for most of the projects we are involved in without too much extra setup e.g. a small domain controller VM and a Server VM with SQL and SharePoint. These environments have a series of snapshots so it can be used in a number of ways e.g if we just want... Read More...
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TF266026 error when a workflow will not start in a lab environment
Wed, Jan 18 2012 11:05
A common cause of the TF266026 error is because when the build agent tries to start (it is the build agent that runs the workflows in Lab Management) it cannot access the custom assemblies folder as defined for its parent build controller. Obviously this problem only occurs if you have  set a custom assemblies path for parent build controller. The reason... Read More...
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‘Showing a modal dialog box or form when the application is not running in UserInteractive mode’ error upgraded to TFS build extensions 1.2.0.0
Tue, Jan 17 2012 9:14
Whilst upgrading a TFS 2010 build today to the new 1.2 release of the Community TFS Build Extensions we hit an issue. All seemed to go OK until the build tried to use the StyleCop activity, which failed with the error Showing a modal dialog box or form when the application is not running in UserInteractive mode is not a valid operation. Specify the ServiceNotification... Read More...
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TF260073 incompatible architecture error when trying to deploy an environment in Lab Manager
Tue, Jan 17 2012 3:21
I got a TF260073, incompatible architecture error when trying to deploy a new virtual lab environment using a newly created VM and template. I found the fix in a forum post . The issue was that when I had build the VMs, I had installed the Lab Management agents using a VMprep DVD ISO and mounted it using ‘share image instead of copying it’ option. This as the... Read More...
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Problems finding XULRunner when running TEE11 CTP1 on Ubuntu and connecting to TFS Azure – a solution
Sun, Jan 8 2012 15:41
I recently got round to taking a look at Team Explorer Everywhere 11 CTP1 . This is the version of TEE that allows you to access the Azure hosted preview of the next version of TFS using Eclipse as a client. I decided to start with a clean OS so Downloaded the Ubuntu 32bit ISO Used this ISO to create a test VM on my copy of VirtualBox (currently using VirtualBox... Read More...
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