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SharePoint 2013 Maintenance Window Notifications

October 14, 2013 by Wes MacDonald 1 Comment


In case you missed it, SharePoint 2013 introduced a new class named SPMaintenanceWindow.  This class makes it super easy to notify your users of upcoming maintenance to your SharePoint Farm at the Content Database level. I read a blog post by Joe Rodgers a Microsoft SharePoint PFE who demonstrated what can be done with this […]

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SharePoint, SharePoint Foundation, SharePoint Server, Visual Studio 2013

Using CloudShare TeamLabs for Dev/Test with TFService

October 14, 2013 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


UPDATE:: Corrected length of trial for CloudShare TeamLabs from 30 days to 14 days. I have been using CloudShare for over two years now and thought a blog post was past due.  In the not so distant past I used either Hyper-V or VMware Workstation for all of my various SharePoint development environments and client […]

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Cloud, SharePoint Server, Visual Studio 2013
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Microsoft Monitoring Agent 2013 includes the IntelliTrace Collector for Visual Studio

October 11, 2013 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


The Microsoft Monitoring Agent that was released on September 24th, 2013 now incorporates functionality that was previously available with the IntelliTrace Collector for Visual Studio, System Center Operations Manager Agent and .NET Application Performance Monitoring.  To analyze data collected you must have Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 or Visual Studio Ultimate 2012 Update 4. The Microsoft […]

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IntelliTrace, Visual Studio 2013

Synchronize your VS 2013 settings across multiple machines

June 26, 2013 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


Sign in to Visual Studio 2013 within 14 days with your Microsoft account to synchronize your settings across multiple machines and register your product. NOTE: For Visual Studio 2013 Preview, this experience is only available in English. Here are the screenshots for the experience If you have two-factor authentication enabled use the Authenticator App and […]

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Visual Studio 2013

Visual Studio 2013 Preview and even more previews…

June 26, 2013 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


Even if you don’t have an MSDN subscription it is still possible to get all of the previews that have been mentioned at Build 2013 and TechEd 2013 Windows Client 8.1 Preview Visual Studio 2013 Preview Team Foundation Server 2013 Preview .NET Framework 4.5.1 Preview SQL Server 2014 CTP 1 System Center 2012 R2 Preview […]

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Microsoft Monitoring Agent 2013 Preview includes updated IntelliTrace Standalone Collector

June 26, 2013 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


Microsoft has released previews of the updated Microsoft Monitoring Agent 2013 for both 32-bit and 64-bit platforms.  It now includes the IntelliTrace Standalone Collector which supports the following editions of Visual Studio: Visual Studio Ultimate 2013 Preview Visual Studio Ultimate 2012.2 (Update 2) The IntelliTrace Collector is located in the following directory: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Monitoring Agent\Agent\IntelliTraceCollector […]

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IntelliTrace, Visual Studio 2013

Rangers ship BRDLite (Build-Release-Deploy)

February 20, 2013 by Wes MacDonald 3 Comments


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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Build, Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio 2012
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Welcome to the New Age | SCOM 2012 SP1 and TFS 2010/2012 (DevOps)

February 4, 2013 by Wes MacDonald 1 Comment


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 […]

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Operations Manager, System Center, Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio 2012

What do you mean you haven’t installed SharePoint 2013 yet ;)

November 24, 2012 by Wes MacDonald 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 […]

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SharePoint, SharePoint Server
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Web Testing SharePoint 2010 with Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 CTP 3

October 28, 2012 by Wes MacDonald 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 […]

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SharePoint, SharePoint Foundation, SharePoint Server, Visual Studio 2012
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