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TFS TPC Databases and SQL 2012 availability groups

Worth noting that when you create a new TPC in TFS 2012, when the TFS configuration DB and other TPC DBs are in SQL 2012 availability groups, the new TPC DB is not placed in this or any other availability group. You have to add it manually, and historically remove it when servicing TFS. Though the need...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Sat, Mar 9 2013
Filed under: Filed under: VSTS, Technical Tips
TFS TPC Databases and SQL 2012 availability groups

Worth noting that when you create a new TPC in TFS 2012, when the TFS configuration DB and other TPC DBs are in SQL 2012 availability groups, the new TPC DB is not placed in this or any other availability group. You have to add it manually, and historically remove it when servicing TFS. Though the need...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Sat, Mar 9 2013
Filed under: Filed under: Technical Tips, VSTS
Recovering network isolated lab management environments if you have to recreate your SC-VMM server’s DB

Whilst upgrading our Lab Management system we lost the SC-VMM DB. This has meant we needed to recreate environments we already have running on Hyper_V hosts but were unknown to TFS. If they were not network isolated this is straight forward, just recompose the environment (after clear out the XML in...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Fri, Mar 8 2013
Filed under: Filed under: Lab Management, Technical Tips, VSTS
Recovering network isolated lab management environments if you have to recreate your SC-VMM server’s DB

Whilst upgrading our Lab Management system we lost the SC-VMM DB. This has meant we needed to recreate environments we already have running on Hyper_V hosts but were unknown to TFS. If they were not network isolated this is straight forward, just recompose the environment (after clear out the XML in...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Fri, Mar 8 2013
Filed under: Filed under: VSTS, Technical Tips, Lab Management
Fixing Lab Manager environments with brute force

Another post from Rik Fixing Lab Manager environments with brute force following our Lab Management upgrade

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Tue, Mar 5 2013
Filed under: Filed under: Lab Management, VSTS
Fixing Lab Manager environments with brute force

Another post from Rik Fixing Lab Manager environments with brute force following our Lab Management upgrade

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Tue, Mar 5 2013
Filed under: Filed under: VSTS, Lab Management
Creating VMs for lab management

Rik has done a post on creating VMs for Lab management to follow up on the one I did yesterday on our Lab upgrade .

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Tue, Mar 5 2013
Filed under: Filed under: VSTS, Lab Management
Creating VMs for lab management

Rik has done a post on creating VMs for Lab management to follow up on the one I did yesterday on our Lab upgrade .

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Tue, Mar 5 2013
Filed under: Filed under: Lab Management, VSTS
Upgrading our TFS 2012 Lab Management to use SC-VMM 2012 SP1

Background We have been successfully using our TFS Lab Management system for a while. However, we have noticed an issue that when deploying environments the performance of the system slowed. This was down to I/O congestion between our servers and the SAN that provided their main VM storage because the...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Mon, Mar 4 2013
Filed under: Filed under: VSTS, Lab Management
Upgrading our TFS 2012 Lab Management to use SC-VMM 2012 SP1

Background We have been successfully using our TFS Lab Management system for a while. However, we have noticed an issue that when deploying environments the performance of the system slowed. This was down to I/O congestion between our servers and the SAN that provided their main VM storage because the...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Mon, Mar 4 2013
Filed under: Filed under: Lab Management, VSTS
ALM Rangers ship more guidance

Yesterday two new ALM Ranger projects shipped, practical guidance on the use of Microsoft Fakes (which I worked on) and for Team Foundation Server (TFS) D isaster R ecovery avoidance , planning and step-step recovery walkthroughs for the worst case scenarios. Also updates for the Coded UI test tooling...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Sat, Mar 2 2013
Filed under: Filed under: VSTS, ALM Rangers
ALM Rangers ship more guidance

Yesterday two new ALM Ranger projects shipped, practical guidance on the use of Microsoft Fakes (which I worked on) and for Team Foundation Server (TFS) D isaster R ecovery avoidance , planning and step-step recovery walkthroughs for the worst case scenarios. Also updates for the Coded UI test tooling...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Sat, Mar 2 2013
Filed under: Filed under: VSTS, ALM Rangers
Fix for ‘Cannot install test agent on these machines because another environment is being created using the same machines’

We have recently been upgrading our TFS 2012QU1 Lab Management system from SCVMM 2008 to SCVMM 2012 SP1. This has not been the nicest experience, we are preparing at least one joint blog post from Rik , Rob and myself on the joys, yes it did take everyone, a lovely cross skill problem. We are now in...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Tue, Feb 26 2013
Filed under: Filed under: Lab Management, Technical Tips, VSTS
Fix for ‘Cannot install test agent on these machines because another environment is being created using the same machines’

We have recently been upgrading our TFS 2012QU1 Lab Management system from SCVMM 2008 to SCVMM 2012 SP1. This has not been the nicest experience, we are preparing at least one joint blog post from Rik , Rob and myself on the joys, yes it did take everyone, a lovely cross skill problem. We are now in...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Tue, Feb 26 2013
Filed under: Filed under: VSTS, Technical Tips, Lab Management
VS Anywhere–Have a look at distributed pair programming

Whilst at the MVP Summit in Redmond last week there were MVP2MVP sessions, these are much like DDD conferences we have in the UK, sessions delivered by MVPs on their experiences and products they offer. One of the most interesting I saw last week was VS Anywhere . This is an extension to Visual Studio...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Mon, Feb 25 2013
Filed under: Filed under: VSTS
VS Anywhere–Have a look at distributed pair programming

Whilst at the MVP Summit in Redmond last week there were MVP2MVP sessions, these are much like DDD conferences we have in the UK, sessions delivered by MVPs on their experiences and products they offer. One of the most interesting I saw last week was VS Anywhere . This is an extension to Visual Studio...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Mon, Feb 25 2013
Filed under: Filed under: 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: 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
Visual Studio 2012.2 changes

The Git support was not the only announcement for TFS at the ALM Summit last week. On Brian Harry’s blog you can see more on the new features either in the TFS/VS 2012.2 (Update 2) CTP or planned to appear in later CTPs. The list is long, but the ones that caught my eye beyond that of Git support are...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Mon, Feb 4 2013
Filed under: Filed under: VSTS
Visual Studio 2012.2 changes

The Git support was not the only announcement for TFS at the ALM Summit last week. On Brian Harry’s blog you can see more on the new features either in the TFS/VS 2012.2 (Update 2) CTP or planned to appear in later CTPs. The list is long, but the ones that caught my eye beyond that of Git support are...

Posted to Richard Fennell by on Mon, Feb 4 2013
Filed under: Filed under: VSTS

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