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We encountered a problem recently with a two server farm. One server was configured as index and query server. Both servers were delivering pages to users. If a user executed a search on the server which did not run the search services, the Search page returned an error, and we saw the following in the application log …

Must be that time of year, I see we are looking at an exam for Scrum Masters I don’t see any point in my repeating myself, especially when Gojko has covered essence of the subject so well

We have been consolidating our Hyper-V system of late, moving various older systems onto a new SAN based cluster. This has meant we have just moved our virtual TFS2008 build machines. After the move I started seeing the following error on all the builds using that server, re-enabling the build machine had no effect. I …

I have been having a play with the boot from VHD functions in Windows 7, it seems like a really useful feature when you need the raw power of your PC, but would like the ease of management of Virtual PCs (i.e. can copy them around and archive them), There are many posts on the steps that are required to add a boot from …

The Autumn/Winter 2009 Series of Black Marble events kicks off with a day to delight software developers! The morning session is an early-access view of Visual Studio 2010 which is being designed inside and out to give developers and development teams every advantage in getting the next ground-breaking application to …

Telerik have just release a new work item manager and dashboard application for TFS, first impressions are very good. Why not download your copy and have a look?

Black Marble took a trip down technology memory lane with a visit to the National Museum of Computing. Black Marble proudly sponsor this important organisation – which is showcasing the pioneering work of the first computer developers who cracked the Enigma codes right through the growth of the personal computer to the …

As part of Black Marble’s day of celebrating our computing history, we visited Bletchley Park – home of the historic site of Station X , the base of British codebreaking activities during World War II and birthplace of the modern computer. A conservation area since the early nineties, the Park was saved just in time …

We had a company outing at the weekend to Bletchley Park for their Annual Enigma Reunion event. A great chance to see the place where Enigma was cracked and some of the equipment they used to do it, such as the working rebuild of a Turing Bombe Whilst down there we also took the chance to have a good look around the …