Tag Archives: Team Foundation Server 2010

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 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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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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Ottawa IT/Code Camp Session Resources

April 16, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


  If you are attending my session today about Visual Studio Lab Management titled “Kill Bugs Faster and Build and Run Your Virtual Test Lab Using Microsoft Visual Studio Lab Management 2010” here are some resources to help you get up to speed. VHD Test Drive – Visual Studio Lab Management Lab Management (pre-release) 2010 […]

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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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Free Training on TFS 2010, Microsoft Test Manager and Lab Manager in Ottawa

January 14, 2011 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


Agenda Registration information and link to register is located below. Migration to TFS 2010 (10h00) Migration of VSS to TFS (20 min.) Automating the Build (Something you can’t do with VSS) (20 Min.) User story (Real application context for this presentation) (20 min.) 11h00 Break Manual Tests by Developer (11h30) Adding a tester to the […]

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Hotfix rollup for Team Foundation Server 2010

October 20, 2010 by Wes MacDonald 1 Comment


If you are interested in keeping your TFS 2010 up-to-date with the latest and greatest patches then this link is for you! The list of issues that the hotfix addresses is as follows: Includes the previous hotfixes that are described in the following articles in the Microsoft Knowledge Base: 2135068  After you upgrade to TFS 2010, labels are […]

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Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Monitoring Management Pack Released

October 15, 2010 by Wes MacDonald 0 Comments


This management pack provides both proactive and reactive monitoring of Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010. It monitors TFS components such as application tier server instances, team project collections, build servers, and proxy servers. Feature Summary The monitoring provided by this management pack includes availability and configuration monitoring, performance data collection, and default thresholds. You can […]

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