If you are using the TFS API within a WebApp with impersonation there is a good chance you will see the error below when you run the web site on IIS

System.Security.SecurityException: Requested registry access is not allowed.    
at System.ThrowHelper.ThrowSecurityException(ExceptionResource resource)    
at …

I have just adding some Performance Counters to instrument some code and had a few issues that are worth knowing about.

I created two categories of counters using the following code:

//Create a category with a single counter
PerformanceCounterCategory.Create(
               "categoryName", …

I hope you all had a great Star Wars day, May the 4th be with you.

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The BizTalk Server Management Pack for Operations Manager 2007 is a management pack for discovery and monitoring of BizTalk Server components and applications. This new management pack includes monitoring for most of the new R2 Features

• Suspended Message Alerts
• Alert Suppression Policy
• Native EDI 
• BAM Technical …

Saw an excellent play last night, Hapgood at the West Yorkshire Playhouse. For those who have no heard if it, it is a Tom Stoppard play about spies and physics set in the late 80s.

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Burley Kawasaki has just announced at the Microsoft Insight 2008 conference that in BizTalk 2006 R3 that Microsoft has Acquired from Covast some of their advanced B2B functionality specifically around  new vertical industries ( details to come ) , this will be a no cost addition to BizTalk 2006 R3.

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