I have mentioned in past posts the issues we had doing our first quarterly update for TFS 2012. Well today we had scheduled our upgrade to 2012.2 and I am please to say it all seems to have worked. Unlike the last upgrade, this time we were doing nothing complex such as moving DB tier SQL instances; so it was a …

I had a great time yesterday at the VISUG Conference in Antwerp, thanks to everyone involved in event. The ALM track organiser Pieter and all the speakers, myself, Martin and Neno, were really pleased to see how full our room was all day. There certainly seems to be more interest in ALM than ever before. If you want to …

Have you heard about the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp? Around the world in 80+ locations, community groups are running an Azure Bootcamp on the 27th April - mainly organised by MVPs, this is an event with over 3000 attendees! From the UK to the USA, in Asia, the Pacific and Australia - liked-minded individuals are …

Whist testing an upgrade of TFS 2010 to TFS 2012.2 I was getting a number of verification errors in the TFS configuration upgrade wizard. They were all TF400129 based such as TF400129: Verifying that the team project collection has space for new system fields but also mention models and schema. A quick search threw up …

I am often asked how well TFS it can be integrated within a company’s larger management processes. This is an especially common question in companies where developing software is not their primary business, it is just a means to enable the business’s core business. A really nice discussion on this question can be found …

This is a follow up to my older post on a similar subject When composing a new Lab Environment from running VMs the PC you are running MTM on needs to be able to connect to the running VMs. It does this using IP so at the most basic level you need to be able to resolve the name of the VM to an IP address. If your VM is …

I did a post a year or so ago about setting up TFS Labs and mentioned command C:Program FilesMicrosoft Team Foundation Server 2010Tools>tfsconfig lab /hostgroup /collectionName:myTpc ?/labenvironmentplacementpolicy:aggressive /edit /Name:"My hosts group" This can be used tell TFS Lab Management to place …

My son is really taken with Kerbal Space Program. This great games allows you to design your own space craft and so run your own on-going space program, all with a realistic physics engine. What is particularly nice is that this cross platform Mono based application is being built in a very agile manner with a new …

Using the Typemock TFS 2012 Build activity I created I had started seen the error TF900548: An error occurred publishing the Visual Studio test results. Details: 'The following id must have a positive value: testRunId.' I thought it might be down to having patched our build boxes to TFS 2012 Update 1, maybe it needed …

Black Marble is hosting the Yorkshire Chapter of the Global Windows Azure Bootcamp taking place in several locations globally on the April 27th, 2013. This free community organised event is one day deep dive class where you will get you up to speed on developing for Windows Azure. The class includes a trainer with deep …