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Editing Windows Server 2012 Group Policies for Direct Access with Windows 8.1 Enterprise Preview
Rik Hepworth Aug 13, 2013 · 2 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I finally got time to upgrade my Surface Pro to Windows 8.1 Enterprise. One of the things I most want to test is DirectAccess, as I live and die by this on my main laptop. However, despite the computer object for my machine being in the group that the DA group policies are applied to, no DA settings appeared.
TIP: On …

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Installing Windows 8.1 Enterprise on Surface Pro
Rik Hepworth Aug 13, 2013 · 3 min read · Uncategorised ·
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Windows 8.1 Enterprise preview was released a week or two ago. Being on holiday prevented me trying it out until I returned to the office. Everyone has different methods for installing Windows 8/8.1 on a Surface Pro. It’s actually pretty simple. Windows 8 can be done in the same way as I list here. However, you will …
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Typescript 0.91 Released
Robert Hogg Aug 9, 2013 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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With the 0.91 release the loss of performance going from 0.83 to 0.9 has been redressed.
there are general improvements including better ASP.NET support.
The Typescript site has all of the documentation and download packages for Visual Studio and Node.js
http://www.typescriptlang.org/
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Microsoft Mathematics 2013 for Word and OneNote
Robert Hogg Aug 8, 2013 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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Every now and again I post about the great tooling for kids and geeks that Microsoft product, the latest update in this set is the Microsoft Mathematics 2013 update for Word and OneNote.
The add in allows you to
• Compute standard mathematical functions, such as roots and logarithms
• Compute trigonometric functions, …

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Why is my TFS Lab build picking a really old build to deploy?
Richard Fennell Aug 1, 2013 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I was working on a TFS lab deployment today and to speed up testing I set it to pick the build of the TFS build that actually builds the code, as opposed to queuing a new one each time. It took me ages to remember/realise why it kept trying to deploy some ancient build that had long since been deleted from my test …
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Fix for ‘Cannot install test agent on these machines because another environment is being created using the same machines’
Richard Fennell Jul 29, 2013 · 2 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I recently posted about adding extra VMs to existing environments in Lab Management. Whilst following this process I hit a problem, I could not create my new environment there was a problem at the verify stage. It was fine adding the new VMs, but the one I was reusing gave the error ‘Microsoft test manager cannot …
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Making the drops location for a TFS build match the assembly version number
Richard Fennell Jul 27, 2013 · 4 min read · Uncategorised ·
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A couple of years ago I wrote about using the TFSVersion build activity to try to sync the assembly and build number. I did not want to see build names/drop location in the format 'BuildCustomisation_20110927.17’, I wanted to see the version number in the build something like 'BuildCustomisation 4.5.269.17'. The …
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I can never remember the command line to add use to the TFS Service Accounts group
Richard Fennell Jul 26, 2013 · 2 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I keep forgetting when you use TFS Integration Platform that the user who the tool (or service account is running as a service) is running as has to be in the “Team Foundation Service Accounts” group on the TFS servers involved. If they are not you get a runtime conflict something like …
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An attempted return for ‘Brian the build bunny’
Richard Fennell Jul 23, 2013 · 7 min read · Uncategorised ·
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Back in 2008 Martin Woodward did a post on using a Nabaztag as a build monitor for TFS, ‘Brian the build bunny’. I did a bit more work on this idea and wired into our internal build monitoring system. We ended up with a system where a build definition could be tagged so that it’s success or failure caused …

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Adding another VM to a running Lab Management environment
Richard Fennell Jul 23, 2013 · 2 min read · Uncategorised ·
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If you are using network isolated environment in TFS Lab management there is no way to add another VM unless you rebuild and redeploy the environment. However, if you are not network isolated you can at least avoid the redeploy issues to a degree.
I had a SCVMM based environment that was a not network isolated …

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