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Hyper-V RC1 for Windows Server 2008 x64 Edition Available


The Release Candidate 1 (RC1) update to the Hyper-V role provides improvements to security, stability, performance, user experience, forward compatibility of configurations, and the programming model. Update for Windows Server 2008 x64 Remote Management Updates for the Hyper-V RC1 Role Windows Vista Windows Vista x64 Windows Server 2008 x32  Release Notes for Hyper-V RC1 can […]

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Microsoft SharePoint Administration Toolkit


  The SharePoint Administration Toolkit contains functionality to help administrate and manage Office SharePoint Server 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services. This toolkit contains two new functions – the ability to perform bulk operations on site collections and a Stsadm operation to update alert e-mails after a Web application has changed URLs. WhitePaper Download x86 Download […]

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Draft Documentation Update for Moving Team Foundation Server from One Hardware Configuration to Another


The documentation related to this procedure was recently updated (still exists as a draft).  You can read about it here at the Visual Studio Team System User Education blog.   Technorati Tags: Visual Studio Team System 2008,Team Foundation Server 2008

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StyleCop — It’s like FxCop for source code


The following page is the future blog site for a "CheckStyle" like tool. http://blogs.msdn.com/sourceanalysis/ Microsoft uses this internally and it will be released at a future date, the product is called StyleCop.  Let’s hope it gets released soon. Discussion on MS forums: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=886063&SiteID=1

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2008 MVP Summit


I’m here in Seattle this week for the MVP Summit and it’s great to see all of the Canadian MVPs sporting the Hockey Jersey’s, after all Canada is Hockey Country isn’t it?  Go Sens Go! If you want to meet the rest of the Team System MVPs, Willy-Peter Schaub has compiled a list of faces […]

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Custom Code Analysis Rules


We were recently asked to extend the Code Analysis rules for Visual Studio.  Here is an example I prepared for a demo which I have to show how an organization can add their own custom rules to FxCop.  The assembly can then be deployed to your developers and can also be deployed to your Visual […]

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Say it like you mean it: Hyper-V Baby


I decided to dive into Hyper-V, I went to Future Shop and purchased an Acer Desktop with an AMD Phenom Quad Core processor, 8Gb of RAM and a 750Gb SATA disk (not bad for under a grand!).  I need to add another few SATA disks for my Virtual Machines but that will come later. AMD […]

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Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) Guidance


Overview As part of its commitment to a more secure and trustworthy computing ecosystem, Microsoft is making the details of the SDL process generally available online for the first time. IT policy makers and software development organizations can leverage this content to enhance and inform their own software security and privacy assurance programs. Microsoft Security […]

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Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 (CTP)


Features: NEW: Single instance with multiple languages.  In total, 9 languages are available: ENU, CHS, CHT, DEU, ESN, FRA, ITA, JPN, KOR. The CTP release doesn’t have all the resources localized completely yet. NEW: Direct links to new work items with initial values NEW: Share ad-hoc work item queries NEW: Shelveset viewer NEW: Improved search […]

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WIWA — Work Item Web Access


This enables the "file-a-bug" scenario for the unlicensed TFS user. As a user without a TFS CAL, you can use Work Item Web Access to perform the following tasks:   Create new work items Edit the work item you have created See the list of work items you have created Download the CTP release for […]

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