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If environment name contains a "," a suitable build agent cannot be found by the controller

February 7, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 1 Comment


If an environment is created in Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) in Lab Center and the name contains a “,” the build controller is unable to find an enabled build agent.  Once I renamed Calc (Fenced, Test) to Calc (Complete) the build was able to proceed. Do not bother trying to "Tag” the build agent to […]

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Lab Management, Microsoft Test Manager, Visual Studio 2010
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Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 Books You Should Pre-Order

February 6, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 1 Comment


  Software Testing with Visual Studio 2010 By Jeff Levinson Topics include: Planning your tests using Microsoft Test Manager (MTM) Creating test settings, structuring test cases, and managing the testing process Executing manual tests with Microsoft Test Manager and Test Runner Filing and resolving bugs, and customizing your bug reporting process Automating test cases and […]

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Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 with Lab Management Enabled

February 5, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 1 Comment


This is probably one of the coolest features that shipped with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010. To start with if you do not have Hyper-V configured and you have a VMware environment then you should probably read this post to find out what is not supported. What’s in it for me (READ: Do Less, […]

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Free Training on TFS 2010, Microsoft Test Manager and Lab Manager in Ottawa

January 14, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


Agenda Registration information and link to register is located below. Migration to TFS 2010 (10h00) Migration of VSS to TFS (20 min.) Automating the Build (Something you can’t do with VSS) (20 Min.) User story (Real application context for this presentation) (20 min.) 11h00 Break Manual Tests by Developer (11h30) Adding a tester to the […]

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FAST Search Authorization Admin Unable to complete request to sam worker node

January 10, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 6 Comments


This FAST Search error appeared after running Configuration Wizard and rebooting. NOTE: We had not configured either of the FAST Content SSA or FAST Query SSA yet.   In one of our environments we got the errors below.  We tried a number of things to resolve the error and after a while it felt like […]

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FAST Search for SharePoint 2010 Event ID 1000

January 6, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 2 Comments


Log Name: FAST Search Farm Source: FAST Search Farm QRServer Date: 16/12/2010 1:33:54 PM Event ID: 1000 Task Category: None Level: Error Keywords: Classic User: N/A Computer: FST-01.DEV.LOCAL Description: FST-01: Admin error occurred during loading of keyword data. The keyword cache may be stale. Exception Message:Failed to communicate with the WCF service. During one of […]

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Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build 2nd Edition

January 6, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


Released on December 24th, 2010 at Amazon.ca. The 2nd edition of William Bartholomew and Sayed Ibrahim Hashimi covers the new features of 2010. New extensive coverage of building C++ Projects with MSBuild Complete rewrite of the Team Build sections to cover the new Workflow build orchestration Details on new MSBuild 4.0 features like inline tasks, […]

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Visual Studio 2010
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My first week with Windows Phone 7

November 26, 2010 by Wes MacDonald 4 Comments


  I ordered the Samsung Focus phone online from Rogers on a Monday and it was delivered to me by Thursday afternoon.  My old phone was an HTC HD2 running WM 6.5 which I loved due to the 4.3” display and touch screen, I was originally going to get the HTC HD7 but the fact […]

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Creating Managed Accounts in SharePoint 2010

November 26, 2010 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


If going to Central Administration | Security | Configure Managed Accounts and Registering a new account (with Automatic Password Change) fails with the following error   You will no longer be able to access the Configure Managed Accounts screen until you remove the offending account you just tried to add, this is all you will […]

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SharePoint 2010 October CUs Back Online

November 18, 2010 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


The Cumulative Updates are available again. KB2394323 The full server package for Microsoft SharePoint Foundation 2010 http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;2394323 KB2394320 The full server package for SharePoint Server 2010 and also contains the MSF2010 fixes. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;2394320 KB2394322 The full server package for Project Server 2010 and also contains the SPS2010 fixes. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;2394322 NOTE: After applying the cumulative updates […]

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