Ready to update System Center Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2 with SP1

April 5, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 1 Comment


  As you may remember Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management leverages SCVMM R2 2008 and now that SP1 has been released you can update your installation with all of the service pack goodness. Updates you should have already applied Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 SP1 […]

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The lab service account available on this machine is not valid

April 1, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  If you receive the following error chances are the lab service account on the domain has either expired or is locked out.  Here is the error you will receive on your test machines, selecting repair has no effect until the password/account issue is resolved: Cannot connect to the controller on ‘tfs.lab.local:6901’. The lab service […]

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Visual Studio 2010 and MSDN Licensing White Paper (updated)

March 25, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 8 Comments


Microsoft has released an updated copy of their whitepaper (Published 8/5/2011) which provides an overview of the Visual Studio 2010 product line, including MSDN subscriptions, and the licensing requirements for those products in common deployment scenarios. It is available in DOC, PDF and XPS formats.  Here are the list of changes for August 2011: Addition […]

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Visual Studio 2010
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SharePoint Server 2010 Configuration NOT using the Wizard (PPTX)

March 24, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


Here is the slide deck for the session I gave at the Ottawa Windows Server User Group on the evening of March 22nd, 2011.     Session Description This session for the IT Pro will go through some of the configuration of SharePoint Server 2010 when you don’t the “Configuration Wizard”. We shall look at […]

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SharePoint

User Profile Service Connections Blank

March 7, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


More than likely you applied a CU, but at the moment I am not able to determine what causes this to occur. UPS Connections Query Empty (After CU is applied) Grant Local Administrator Privileges to Database Access Account (on the machine hosting the UPSA) Reboot Server Start User Profile Service Application (in Central Admin) After […]

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FAST Search Server for SharePoint 2010 and SharePoint Server 2010 CU

February 11, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


If you have SharePoint Server 2010 deployed, running FAST Search Server for SharePoint 2010 and have deployed the October 2010 or December 2010 CU for SharePoint Server you may experience the following issue: If you create a new Site Collection in a Web Application which is connected to a FAST Query SSA and specify a […]

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FAST Search Server, SharePoint
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Network Isolation and Domain Joined Machines

February 9, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 4 Comments


  If you decide to build an environment in Lab Manager which has a server performing the domain controller role, when you are joining the machines to the domain make sure you don’t rename them.  If you do you will get “Additional Information” messages displayed about the state of those machines. Network isolation is complete. […]

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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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