Located on CodePlex: BRDLite Reference Templates. BRDLite is the ALM Rangers 1st investment in the DevOps domain which is going to continue to be one of their focus areas in future so stay tuned! Make sure to follow the project. The Build Release and Deploy (BRD) Lite is a set of build process reference templates […]
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Welcome to the New Age | SCOM 2012 SP1 and TFS 2010/2012 (DevOps)
February 4, 2013 
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Operations Manager 2012 SP1 enables in-production, always-on root-cause monitoring and analysis of .NET Applications. AVIcode Intercept 5.7 functionality was shipped in the SCOM 2012 RTM last year. What can I expect from application monitoring Efficient troubleshooting of issues related to .NET based applications in all of your environments (QA, Stage, Pre-Prod and Production) Able to perform […]
Read more What do you mean you haven’t installed SharePoint 2013 yet ;)
November 24, 2012 2 Comments
The SharePoint Conference is over and I thought my head was going to explode! This conference was packed full of information and details about the 2013 releases of SharePoint Online and SharePoint On-Premise (I know on-premise is not a real word). 274 sessions if I recall correctly My first day of the conference I decided […]
Read more Web Testing SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 CTP 3
October 28, 2012 0 Comments
UPDATE: 10/29/2012 – Updated link text for Update 1 from CTP 3 to Update 1 CTP 4 Final I am certain this has been a long standing request from Visual Studio by the community, myself included. If you’ve attempted this in the past with previous versions of Visual Studio you would have realized quickly that […]
Read more FAST Search for SharePoint: Cannot start service FASTSearchMonitoring on computer ‘.’
October 22, 2012 0 Comments
We recently had a scenario where we applied some Windows Updates to our servers. When our FAST Server for SharePoint Servers were rebooted after applying the updates the following FAST services were listed as “Dead”: QRProxy Service qrproxy SAM Admin samadmin SAM Worker samworker It should also be noted that these FAST Servers are NOT […]
Read more Exploratory Testing in Microsoft Test Manager
September 21, 2012 0 Comments
This is a feature you can find in the latest release of Microsoft Test Manager included with Visual Studio Ultimate 2012, Visual Studio Premium 2012 or Visual Studio Test Pro 2012. If you’re interesting in the entire feature comparison across editions you can see it here. In the screenshot above I launched Microsoft Test Manager […]
Read more Using Friendly DNS Names in Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management
June 27, 2012 2 Comments
If you’ve spent some time with Lab Management, specifically where you’ve leveraged Network Isolation you will have noticed the nice fully qualified domain names assigned to the external network adapter identified in the diagram below as “Computer name:”. If you want to create easier to remember names for your VMs you could create some CNAMEs in your […]
Read moreFailed to initialize session with document engine: Unable to resolve Contentdistributor
June 22, 2012 1 Comment
If you start seeing this error (below) being logged in the Application Log on the SharePoint Server that hosts the FAST Search Content SSA. Log Name: Application Source: Microsoft-SharePoint Products-SharePoint Server Search Date: 22/06/2012 10:23:01 AM Event ID: 2567 Task Category: Content Plugin Level: Error Keywords: User: like10\_fs_cssaa Computer: SPAPP-01.like10.local Description: Failed to connect to […]
Read moreUsing friendly DNS Names in your TFS environment with Kerberos Authentication Part 2
June 21, 2012 1 Comment
This is a continuation of Part 1 of configuring Kerberos Authentication. I’ll continue to step through enabling Kerberos Authentication for the following services: TFS 2010 Application Tier which consists of both the Web Services and Team Web Access To find out the Service Account that is relevant to this exercise in your environment, logon (or […]
Read moreVisual Studio 2008 SP1 Team Foundation Server 2012 Compatibility GDR
June 5, 2012 6 Comments
This patch will provide compatibility for all for the Visual Studio 2008 products that connect to Team Foundation Server 11/Team Foundation Server 2012. Before you apply this patch you must ensure you’ve already applied Visual Studio 2008 SP1, and of course you must also have Team Explorer 2008 installed or this patch does not apply […]
Read more- Team Foundation Server 2010 Build Agent not part of the domain
- Visual Studio 2010 and MSDN Licensing White Paper (updated)
- Windows Mobile 6 upgrade for HTC TyTN (Rogers)
- Team Build 2010 Customized Output Directories & SharePoint 2010 WSPs
- Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Team Foundation Server 2012 Compatibility GDR
- Rangers ship BRDLite (Build-Release-Deploy)
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Welcome to the New Age | SCOM 2012 SP1 and TFS 2010/2012 (DevOps)
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What do you mean you haven’t installed SharePoint 2013 yet ;)
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Web Testing SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 CTP 3
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FAST Search for SharePoint: Cannot start service FASTSearchMonitoring on computer ‘.’
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Dan: Hi, Finally, I figured out what happened. For s...
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wesmacdonald: Hi, Sorry I did not, I'll dig up my VS 2008 VM an...
