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Running an external command line tool as part of a Wix install

I have recently been battling running a command line tool within a Wix 3.6 installer. I eventually got it going but learnt a few things. Here is a code fragment that outlines the solution. <Product ……… > ……… loads of other Wix bits <!-- The command line we wish to run is set via a property....

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Mon, Feb 25 2013
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Tips, Wix
Running an external command line tool as part of a Wix install

I have recently been battling running a command line tool within a Wix 3.6 installer. I eventually got it going but learnt a few things. Here is a code fragment that outlines the solution. <Product ……… > ……… loads of other Wix bits <!-- The command line we wish to run is set via a property....

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Mon, Feb 25 2013
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Tips, Wix
More in rights being stripped for the [team project]\contributors group in TFS 2012 when QU1 applied and how to sort it.

I recently wrote a post that discussed how the contributor rights had been stripped off areas in TFS 2012 server when QU1 was applied, this included details on the patches to apply the manual steps to resolve the problem. Well today I found that it is not just in the area security you can see this problem...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Thu, Feb 7 2013
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Tips, VSTS
More in rights being stripped for the [team project]\contributors group in TFS 2012 when QU1 applied and how to sort it.

I recently wrote a post that discussed how the contributor rights had been stripped off areas in TFS 2012 server when QU1 was applied, this included details on the patches to apply the manual steps to resolve the problem. Well today I found that it is not just in the area security you can see this problem...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Thu, Feb 7 2013
Filed under: Filed under: VSTS, Technical Tips
Getting Windows Phone 7.8 on my Lumia 800

Microsoft have release Windows Phone 7.8 in the last few days. As usual the rollout appears to be phased, I think based on serial number of your phone. As with previous versions you can force the update, so jumping the phased rollout queue. The process is Put the phone in flight mode (so no data connection...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Mon, Feb 4 2013
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Tips, WP7
Getting Windows Phone 7.8 on my Lumia 800

Microsoft have release Windows Phone 7.8 in the last few days. As usual the rollout appears to be phased, I think based on serial number of your phone. As with previous versions you can force the update, so jumping the phased rollout queue. The process is Put the phone in flight mode (so no data connection...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Mon, Feb 4 2013
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Tips, WP7
Fixing area permission issues when creating new teams in TFS 2012 after QU1 has been installed

One of the side effects of the problems we had with TFS 2012 QU1 was that when we created a new team within a team project contributors had no rights to the teams default Area. The workaround was that we had to add these rights manually, remembering to add these as you would expect is something you forget...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Mon, Jan 28 2013
Filed under: Filed under: VSTS, Technical Tips
Fixing area permission issues when creating new teams in TFS 2012 after QU1 has been installed

One of the side effects of the problems we had with TFS 2012 QU1 was that when we created a new team within a team project contributors had no rights to the teams default Area. The workaround was that we had to add these rights manually, remembering to add these as you would expect is something you forget...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Mon, Jan 28 2013
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Tips, VSTS
My session today at Modern Jago

Thanks to everyone who came along to the Microsoft event today at Modern Jago. I hope you all found it useful. I got feedback from a few people that my tip on not trusting company WIFI when trying to do remote debugging of Windows RT devices was useful (or any other type of device for that matter...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Wed, Jan 23 2013
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Tips, Windows 8
More on HDD2 boot problems with my Crucial M4-mSATA

I have been battling my Crucial M4-mSATA 256Gb SDD for a while now . The drive seems OK most of the time, but if for any reason my PC crashes (i.e. a blue screen, which I have found is luckily rare on Windows8) the PC will not start-up giving a ‘HDD2 cannot be found’ error during POST. I had not had...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Tue, Jan 22 2013
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Tips
More on HDD2 boot problems with my Crucial M4-mSATA

I have been battling my Crucial M4-mSATA 256Gb SDD for a while now . The drive seems OK most of the time, but if for any reason my PC crashes (i.e. a blue screen, which I have found is luckily rare on Windows8) the PC will not start-up giving a ‘HDD2 cannot be found’ error during POST. I had not had...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Tue, Jan 22 2013
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Tips
TF237111 errors when trying to add work items to the backlog after TFS 2012 QU1 is applied

I posted earlier in the week about my experiences with the post TFS 2012 QU1 hotfix . When I posted I thought we had all our problems sorted, we did for new team projects, but it seems still had an issue for teams on our team projects that were created prior to the upgraded from RTM to QU1. As I said...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Fri, Jan 18 2013
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Tips, VSTS
TF237111 errors when trying to add work items to the backlog after TFS 2012 QU1 is applied

I posted earlier in the week about my experiences with the post TFS 2012 QU1 hotfix . When I posted I thought we had all our problems sorted, we did for new team projects, but it seems still had an issue for teams on our team projects that were created prior to the upgraded from RTM to QU1. As I said...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Fri, Jan 18 2013
Filed under: Filed under: VSTS, Technical Tips
Incorrect IIS IP Bindings and TFS Server Url

By default the TFS server uses http://localhost:8080/tfs as it’s Server URL, this is the URL used for internal communication, whereas the Notification Url is the one TFS tells client to communicate to it via. Both these Urls can be changed via the Team Foundation Server Console, but I find you do not...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Tue, Jan 15 2013
Filed under: Filed under: VSTS, Technical Tips
Experiences applying TFS 2012 QU1 and it subsequent hotfix

Brian Harry posted last week about a hotfix for TFS 2012 QU1 (KB2795609) . This should not be needed by most people, but as his post points out does fix issues for a few customers. Well we were one of those customers. When upgrading from 2012 RTM to 2012 QU1 we had attempted what with hindsight was an...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Mon, Jan 14 2013
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Tips, VSTS
Experiences applying TFS 2012 QU1 and it subsequent hotfix

Brian Harry posted last week about a hotfix for TFS 2012 QU1 (KB2795609) . This should not be needed by most people, but as his post points out does fix issues for a few customers. Well we were one of those customers. When upgrading from 2012 RTM to 2012 QU1 we had attempted what with hindsight was an...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Mon, Jan 14 2013
Filed under: Filed under: VSTS, Technical Tips
Why can’t I create an environment using a running VM on my Lab Management system?

With TFS lab management you can build environments from stored VM and VM templates stored in an SCVMM library or from VMs running on a Hyper-V host within your lab infrastructure. This second form is what used to be called composing an environment in TFS 2010. Recently when I tried to compose an environment...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Tue, Dec 4 2012
Filed under: Filed under: VSTS, Technical Tips, Lab Management
Why can’t I create an environment using a running VM on my Lab Management system?

With TFS lab management you can build environments from stored VM and VM templates stored in an SCVMM library or from VMs running on a Hyper-V host within your lab infrastructure. This second form is what used to be called composing an environment in TFS 2010. Recently when I tried to compose an environment...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Tue, Dec 4 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Lab Management, Technical Tips, VSTS
Did I delete the right lab?

It was bound to happen in the end, the wrong environment got deleted on our TFS Lab Management instance. The usual selection of rushing, minor mistakes, misunderstandings and not reading the final dialog properly and BANG you get that sinking feeling as you see the wrong set of VMs being deleted. Well...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Thu, Nov 22 2012
Filed under: Filed under: VSTS, Technical Tips, Lab Management
Did I delete the right lab?

It was bound to happen in the end, the wrong environment got deleted on our TFS Lab Management instance. The usual selection of rushing, minor mistakes, misunderstandings and not reading the final dialog properly and BANG you get that sinking feeling as you see the wrong set of VMs being deleted. Well...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Thu, Nov 22 2012
Filed under: Filed under: Lab Management, Technical Tips, VSTS

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