Posts Tagged ‘TFS’
Twelve months ago I wrote a post documenting “installing Team Foundation Server 2010 on Windows Home Server” which has proved very popular. Well things move on and since then Microsoft have released a new version of Windows Home Server (WHS 2011). There are many differences between V2 of WHS compared to V1 but the main [...]
Filed under: Geek Tech, Home Server, Team Foundation Server, Windows | 1 Comment
Tags: Team Foundation Server, TFS, Visual Studio, WHS, Windows Server
This week my Team Toolbar Office add-in for Team Explorer disappeared preventing me from uploading any new Work items to Team Foundation Server. After some searching in Excel (and MS Project) I accepted it wasn’t just hiding and turned to Google for help. Luckily I found this helpful post on the Team Foundation Server Team’s [...]
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Tags: Team Foundation Server, TFS, Tips, Tools & Tips
Whilst checking the Windows Event Log on my server I found this worrying error being reported by the Team Foundation Server Power Tools Backup & Restore Tool : Error: Tfpt Backup Restore : There is an error in XML document (499, 100). I posted an article about using this tool to backup your TFS server [...]
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Tags: Team Foundation Server, TFS, Tips, Tools, Visual Studio
At last – backup is built into the TFS product, well via the Power Tools at least. Backing up TFS has always been difficult and non-intuitive without a SQL DBA in your pocket, even the documentation is at best extensive but at worse confusing. But all that’s history as the September 2010 TFS Power Tools [...]
Filed under: Home Server, Team Foundation Server, Tools & Tips | 4 Comments
Tags: Home Server, Team Foundation Server, TFS, Tools, WHS
In my previous post (“Backing Up TFS 2010 Using PowerShell: Part 1”) I covered how to backup up the TFS SQL Server databases using Windows PowerShell and the SQL Server Management Objects (SMO) API. In this post I’m going to take it one stage further and add another layer of backup for the paranoid amongst [...]
Filed under: Home Server, PowerShell, Team Foundation Server | 3 Comments
Tags: PowerShell, Team Foundation Server, TFS, Tips, Tools, WHS
In a previous post I covered how to install Team Foundation Server 2010 onto a Windows Home Server. The installation was a TFS Basic Configuration installation and whilst it was geared towards Windows Home Server the concepts are the same if you are installing it on other servers / workstations. This post will cover how [...]
Filed under: Home Server, PowerShell, Team Foundation Server | 3 Comments
Tags: PowerShell, Team Foundation Server, TFS, Tips, Tools, WHS
Last October I posted about the fact that Microsoft’s Team Foundation Server 2010 was going to be shipping with a “Basic” configuration that more light weight and seen as more of a Visual SourceSafe replacement. In that post I also pointed out that it seemed possible to install this version on a Windows Home Server [...]
Filed under: Home Server, Team Foundation Server, Tools & Tips | 6 Comments
Tags: Home Server, Team Foundation Server, TFS, Visual Studio, WHS, Windows Server
Many development teams still regularly use Visual SourceSafe for their source control which can stimulate heated debates between those that have used it for many years without problems and those that have suffered some pain with it. Regardless of this debate there is no denying that SourceSafe is coming to the end of it’s useful [...]
Filed under: Home Server, Team Foundation Server | 1 Comment
Tags: Team Foundation Server, TFS, Visual Studio
Run this command to see who has something checked out in TFS: “C:Program FilesMicrosoft Visual Studio 9.0Common7IDEtf.exe” status /server:SERVERNAME /user:* $/TFSPROJECTBRANCH /recursive /login:DOMAINYOURUSERNAME,YOURPASSWORD Change the parent branch by replacing the TFSPROJECTBRANCH with the name of an alternative branch. For VS2005 only machines change Visual Studio 9.0 to Visual Studio 8. For best results pipe the [...]
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Tags: TFS, Tips, Visual Studio
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