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Office 365 Domain convert to standard authentication

August 16, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 1 Comment


  During our Office 365 trial I dabbled with the idea of federating our local domain with Office 365 so that users could use their Active Directory username and password to access services in the cloud as opposed to another set of credentials. This sounded really cool to begin with but in the end we […]

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Cloud, Office 365

.NET Framework 4.0 CU Released

August 9, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  You might be wondering why this patch is important to me?  One of the items included in this rollup is a fix for WPF which greatly improves the performance of the Windows Workflow Designer in Visual Studio 2010. If you spend time in the WF Designer doing workflows or editing Team Build 2010 definitions […]

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.NET, Team Build, Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio 2010

TFS 2010 SP1 CU1 Republished

August 9, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  The original CU was pulled due to some regressions that were introduced: Installing it on a TFS Proxy server broke the proxy server, requiring uninstall. After installing it on a TFS server, subsequent imports of TFS 2008 servers into TFS 2010 project collections was broken. Brian Harry has a blog post with links to […]

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Team Foundation Server

Team Build 2010 Customized Output Directories & SharePoint 2010 WSPs

August 4, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 7 Comments


  Before we get started, if you need help configuring your Team Build 2010 Server to support SharePoint 2010 please refer to the following documentation on MSDN.  If you already have a developer workstation with SharePoint 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 this script will collect all the required files for you to install on your […]

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SharePoint Foundation, SharePoint Server, Team Build

TFS 2010 — July 2011 Product Use Rights Updated

July 12, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  Brian Harry posted this morning to his blog his interpretation of a recent change in the July 2011 PUR so those of us without a degree in law can understand it. If you are a current MSDN subscriber (with TFS) you are entitled to upgrade the SQL Edition associated with TFS to SQL 2008 […]

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SQL Server 2008 R2, Team Foundation Server

SharePoint 2010 Service Pack 1

June 28, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  Sometime today Microsoft will release SP1 in the meantime you can read up on the changes/enhancements that are included like: Site Recycle Bin Support for SQL Server (code named Denali) Support for Google Chrome and IE9 in IE8 Standard Mode Shallow Copy Here is the link to the white paper on SP1: Service Pack […]

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SharePoint Foundation, SharePoint Server
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The Visual Studio ALM Rangers have done it again!

June 20, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 1 Comment


  Looking for information on Visual Studio Lab Management well look no further, the TFS Rangers have released their Rangers Lab Management Guide to Codeplex. Congratulations to the entire team. This Visual Studio ALM Ranger project has the primary goal of delivering scenario based and hands-on lab guidance for the customization and deployment of Team […]

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Lab Management, Team Build, Team Foundation Server
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The Managed Metadata Service ‘<Service Name>’ is inaccessible

May 26, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 3 Comments


  Log Name: Application Source: Microsoft-SharePoint Products-SharePoint Server Date: 5/25/2011 2:54:04 AM Event ID: 8088 Task Category: Taxonomy Level: Warning Keywords: User: DEV\_ap_pool Computer: WFE-01.DEV.LOCAL Description: The Managed Metadata Service ‘<Service Name>’ is inaccessible. If you are receiving this error on your SharePoint Servers the fix is quite easy.  There is also a TechNet link […]

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SharePoint Server

FAST Search Server backup | Cannot find type [Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server]

May 19, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 1 Comment


  If you have attempted a backup of your FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint (according to the documentation) PowerShell you may receive the following error “Cannot find type [Microsoft.SqlServer.Management.Smo.Server]” In our case we are using SQL Server 2008 R2 so the files we require are part of the Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 Feature […]

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FAST Search Server, SharePoint

SharePoint 2010 MP for SCOM 2007 R2

May 13, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 3 Comments


  If you are planning an install of SCOM 2007 R2 to monitor your SharePoint 2010 environment (either Foundation or Server) these links will be invaluable to you:   System Center Operations Manager 2007 R2 Cumulative Update 4 Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 Management […]

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FAST Search Server, SharePoint Foundation, SharePoint Server
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