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Using Friendly DNS Names in Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management

June 27, 2012 by Wes MacDonald 2 Comments


If you’ve spent some time with Lab Management, specifically where you’ve leveraged Network Isolation you will have noticed the nice fully qualified domain names assigned to the external network adapter identified in the diagram below as “Computer name:”. If you want to create easier to remember names for your VMs you could create some CNAMEs in your […]

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Lab Management, Team Foundation Server
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Using friendly DNS Names in your TFS environment with Kerberos Authentication Part 2

June 21, 2012 by Wes MacDonald 1 Comment


This is a continuation of Part 1 of configuring Kerberos Authentication. I’ll continue to step through enabling Kerberos Authentication for the following services: TFS 2010 Application Tier which consists of both the Web Services and Team Web Access To find out the Service Account that is relevant to this exercise in your environment, logon (or […]

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Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio 2010
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Using friendly DNS Names in your TFS environment with Kerberos Authentication Part 1

May 9, 2012 by Wes MacDonald 2 Comments


UPDATED: June 11th, 2012 Added reference to MSA (Managed Service Accounts) UPDATED: January 14th, 2014 Added link to hotfix for Windows Server 2008 R2 to use MSAs You’re probably here because you’ve read this excellent post by Ed Blankenship.  If you also want to enable Kerberos Authentication support to this configuration there are a few […]

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SQL Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 R2, Team Foundation Server, Windows Server
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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

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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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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Visual Studio 2010 SP1 TFS 2012 Compatibility GDR

October 21, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 1 Comment


UPDATE: 2012-09-12 A new GDR has been posted.  This new GDR update includes previous CUs and adds compatibility for VS 2012 and Windows 8.  The full list of fixes can be found here. Here is a list of some of the fixes and improvements: Adds support to the TE 2010 client to allow it to […]

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Microsoft Test Manager, Team Foundation Server, Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio 2012
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