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Team Foundation Sever 2010 with Project Server 2010 Hyper-V VM

April 19, 2012 by Wes MacDonald 3 Comments


  This virtual machine demonstrates the integration of Team Foundation Sever 2010 with Project Server 2010. Four (4) walkthroughs are also included that demonstrate using enterprise project plans in Project Server associated with team projects in Team Foundation Server. Top-Down Planning of Business Requirements with Project Server and Team Foundation Server Managing Project Details in […]

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Patching TFS 2010 Build Agents and Test Agents

April 16, 2012 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  A discussion recently arose over how to patch TFS 2010 Test Controllers and TFS 2010 Test Agents. TFS 2010 SP1 will not patch the Test Controller or Test Agent products.  In this example I have a virtual machine in my LAB which has both of the lab agents (workflow and testing) installed and configured. […]

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Lab Management, Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio 2010

PreEmptive Analytics Community Edition included with TFS Beta

April 7, 2012 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  If you’ve downloaded Visual Studio 11 Team Foundation Server Beta you have probably noticed the following: Requires  a 64-bit Server OS Windows Server 2008 (x64) w/SP2 Windows Server 2008 R2 Windows Server 8 Requires Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 10 GB RAM for a full installation (which includes SharePoint, SQL Server, SQL Server Reporting […]

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Visual Studio 11 Beta
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Process samworker terminated shortly after starting

March 12, 2012 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  FAST Search Service fails to start after applying a Cumulative Update If you apply a Cumulative Update to FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint don’t forget that you will have to execute a PowerShell script to apply the updates to your FAST Search deployment. Install a software update (FAST Search Server 2010 for SharePoint) […]

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FAST Search Server, SharePoint

Failed to Process Analysis Database ‘Tfs_Analysis’

March 11, 2012 by Wes MacDonald 3 Comments


  The following steps are applicable if the following is true: New install of TFS 2010 SQL Server 2008 R2 configured to use individual domain accounts to run the services After this particular install I noticed that in the Application Event Log I was getting the following error message every two (2) hours: Detailed Message: […]

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SQL Server 2008 R2, Team Foundation Server
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Define a custom workflow to Deploy Database Project(s) from Team Build 2010

January 28, 2012 by Wes MacDonald 5 Comments


  A few tips to get you started: Community TFS Build Extensions can be download here from CodePlex.  This is a collection of activities you can integrate into your process template. I used this blog posting from Ewald Hofman to configure my Visual Studio 2010 environment to edit the process template. I add the process […]

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Team Build
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How does the VMPrep Tool Apply Patches

November 4, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  The VMPrep Tool for Visual Studio Lab Management 2010 is located on the MSDN Archive. Assuming your file-share is \\LabMgr, your layout should be as below \\LabMgr\AgentInstaller\ \\LabMgr\TFSInstaller\ \\LabMgr\PatchInstaller\ \\LabMgr\VMPrepTool\ All patches which need to be applied should be present in a folder. This folder should be indicated in the Applications.xml file (found inside […]

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Lab Management, Visual Studio 2010

DevTeach: Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management Session

November 4, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  Yesterday afternoon I did a session on Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management (targeted at the ITPro).  If you are looking for the links that were on the resources slide from the PowerPoint deck.  I will post them here (plus a few more).  Visual Studio ALM MVP Etienne Tremblay from Montreal also sat in on […]

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Lab Management, Microsoft Test Manager, Team Build, Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio 2010
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The converter framework returned the following error: CE_BACKENDUNAVAILABLE

November 1, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  Actually the exact error message was the following: Errors: The attempt to create a page from that document failed with the following error: Converting the document to a page failed. The converter framework returned the following error: CE_BACKENDUNAVAILABLE Need to publish a word document as web page?  SharePoint 2010 can do this out of […]

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SharePoint Server
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SharePoint 2010: Message: A security problem occurred.

October 31, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  Message: A security problem occurred. Line: 2: Char: 12311 Code: 0 URI: http://hostname/_layouts/sp.ui.dialog.js?rev=XXX. If the script is debugged in the browser the javascript line that throws the error is a=b.getAttribute(“href”). This error occurred on a client site we support and tracking down the issue was extremely frustrating.  It only happened with clients using IE7 […]

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SharePoint Foundation, SharePoint Server
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