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  • Cannot access TFS over HTTPS after upgrade from 2010 Beta 2 to RC

    I upgraded our Beta2 2010 TFS last week, and after a quick local test all appeared to be working OK, so I rushed out the office like you do. However, whilst I have been out the office it was spotted that though it was working within the office using HTTP and the NETBIOS\Domain server name ( TFSSERVER...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Mon, Mar 15 2010
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  • At last, my creature it lives……..

    I have at last worked all the way through setting up my portable end to end demo of  testing using Windows Test and Lab Manager . The last error I had to resolve was the tests not running in the lab environment (though working locally on the development PC). My the Lab Workflow build was recorded...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Fri, Feb 5 2010
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  • Problem creating workitems on TFS2010 in the morning

    I recently been working with a client who has been seeing strange problems when they try to create new workitems via a SharePoint portal site on a TFS2010 Beta2 installation. They appeared to have a fully working TFS2010 installation, but when they came in on a morning they found that even though they...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Tue, Feb 2 2010
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  • Empty page being show for Silverlight application running out of browser

    Whilst preparing demo’s for our design event next week I hit a problem with the out of browser experience in Silverlight 3. I had decided to add the out of browser settings to our 2009 Christmas Card Silverlight application. To do this all you need to do is check a box on the project settings I ran the...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Fri, Jan 29 2010
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  • So you want to demo VS2010 Lab Manager…….

    I recently decided to build a demo system for VS2010 Lab Manager. This was for a number of reasons, not least I just wanted to have a proper play with it, but also that I was hoping to do a session on Microsoft Test and Lab Manager at DDD8 (as it turns out my session did not get voted for, maybe better...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Wed, Jan 27 2010
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  • Running Typemock Isolator based tests in TFS 2010 Team Build

    I have been looking at getting automated builds running on TFS2010 that make use of Typemock Isolator . This is not as straight forward as you would expect. The issue is that you have start Isolator’s mocking interceptor before you run any tests that use Typemock (and stop it afterwards). If you are...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Fri, Jan 22 2010
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  • TFS 2010 Build Service Configuration Wizard fails with TF255425 error

    I have at last got round to setting up a full installation VS 2010 Test and Lab Manager using the excellent notes from the Lab Management Team . Whist installing the build server portion I got a strange set of errors. TF255425: An error occurred while installing the following Windows service: TFSBuildServiceHost...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Thu, Jan 14 2010
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  • TF53010 error and no TFS Warehouse updates after a SQL migrate

    We recently moved our central SQL server to new SAN hardware and at the same time upgraded from SQL2005 to SQL2008. Once this was done we noticed that our TFS Reports were running against old Warehouse data. Checking the TFS Application Tier event log we saw: TF53010: The following error has occurred...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Wed, Oct 21 2009
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  • TF250020 error creating new Team Projects

    Whilst working on our TFS2010 Beta 1 test server today I got the following error when I tried to create a new team project TF250020: The following SharePoint Web application is not valid: http://vs2010.mydomain.com . Verify that you have the correct URL. I thought this strange, as I was doing nothing...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Wed, Sep 2 2009
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  • Upgrading my Media Center to Windows 7

    Over the past couple of days I have upgraded my Vista based Media Center to Windows 7. After my previous experiences upgrading from XP here ,  here   and here I decided to do a new install onto a new 1Tb disk as opposed to an in place upgrade. This all went OK, there was nothing major to note...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Fri, Aug 14 2009
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  • Outlook 2010 email searching

    Since I installed Outlook 2010 technical preview I have not been able to search emails using the ‘search mail’ boxes in Outlook (which links into Windows desktop search). I had not realised how much I used the feature until it did not work. When I tried a search I was shown a dialog saying there was...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Sat, Jul 25 2009
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  • Visual Studio 2008 connecting to TFS 2010

    You can connect a Visual Studio 2008 IDE instance to a TFS 2010 server, as detailed in Martin Hinshelwood’s blog , but I cannot stress enough you have to have VS2008 SP1 installed . If you don’t, you get an error dialog when you enter the URL for the TFS server saying the URL contains invalid characters...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Tue, Jul 21 2009
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  • Outlook 2010 crashing after in place upgrade

    I downloaded and installed the Office 2010 technical preview today. All seemed to go OK (after I realised  I could only do an in place upgrade from 32bit Office 2007 –> 32bit Office 2010), once the upgrade was done I could load Word and using our VSTO based document templates all seemed to work...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Fri, Jul 17 2009
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  • Fun with a SQLExpress 2005 upgrade 2008

    On my development PC I had a 2005 instance of SQLExpress that was installed as part of the VS2008 setup. I thought I had upgraded it when I put on the SQL 2008 Management tools and/or VS2010 beta, but it seems I didn’t. I thought I would try the new Microsoft Web Platform Installer , but this also thought...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Mon, Jul 6 2009
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  • Remember the new URL format for the TFS2010 web services have changed

    To have a good look at TFS2010 I have migrated some existing VS2008 projects to VS2010. This has meant they are now being built using a new TFS 2010 build server. Now I wanted to make sure everyone still knew what was building and what was not, so I updated the configuration on our build wallboard to...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Fri, Jul 3 2009
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  • Visual Studio 2010 project upgrade bug; test assemblies being copied to release folders in error

    After I upgraded an ASP.NET Web Application VS2008 solution to VS2010 I found a strange problem. When I build either the whole solution or the test project in the solution the test assembly gets copies to Web Applications bin directory. However if I build the solution from the command line with MSBUILD...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Fri, Jul 3 2009
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  • Problems with uplink on an 8 port Netgear Gigabit switch

    All the ports on the Netgear GS608 I think are meant to be auto speed and uplink sensing, I have found this not to be true. I had the 1Gb uplink to our central switches in Port 8 and a 100Mb Ethernet workstation in port 2 could not get an IP address via DHCP. When I moved the uplink to Port 1 it all...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Tue, Jun 30 2009
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  • Timeouts on Bitlocker to go

    Since moving to Windows 7 I have encrypted all my USB pen drives and external USB disk drives with Bitlocker to go . This has been working great for me, I have noticed no performance problems and it give nice piece of mind. The only irritation is when you plug the encrypted drive into an XP or Vista...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Thu, May 21 2009
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  • TF255048 Error when installing TFS 2010 beta 1

    When you setup a dual or multi server TFS installation you need to specify the location of the OLAP Analysis service instance that will be used for the reporting warehouse. As with much of the TFS installation and configuration process there is a test button to confirm your setting will work, these are...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Thu, May 21 2009
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  • Microsoft.AnalysisServices Assemblies missing when configuring Reporting Services on dual tier TFS 2010 Beta1

    TFS 2010 provides far more options for the configuration of your server than the previous versions. You now can easily make use of any existing server resources you have such as SharePoint farms or Enterprise SQL installations. Today I was looking at one of these ‘less standard’ setups using some of...
    Posted to Richard Fennell by on Wed, May 20 2009
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