I recently wrote a post that discussed how the contributor rights had been stripped off areas in TFS 2012 server when QU1 was applied, this included details on the patches to apply the manual steps to resolve the problem.

Well today I found that it is not just in the area security you can see this problem. We found it …

We had a great time at the Imagine Cup North East Hackathon this weekend. Black Marble turned out in force with myself, Steve, Richard, Robert, Linda, Josh and Riccardo all helping out. Andy Westgarth and the guys at Sunderland Software City had done a solid job on the organisation and we were well looked after.

There …

Microsoft have release Windows Phone 7.8 in the last few days. As usual the rollout appears to be phased, I think based on serial number of your phone. As with previous versions you can force the update, so jumping the phased rollout queue. The process is

1. Put the phone in flight mode (so no data connection)
2. Connect it …

The Git support was not the only announcement for TFS at the ALM Summit last week. On Brian Harry’s blog you can see more on the new features either in the TFS/VS 2012.2 (Update 2) CTP or planned to appear in later CTPs. The list is long, but the ones that caught my eye beyond that of Git support are

• Microsoft Fakes …

At the ALM Summit yesterday Brian Harry made some major TFS and Visual Studio announcements

• Git support for the hosted visualstudio.com, this allows you to choose if you want a centralised (existing TFS) source control repository or DVSC (using Git). There is also new tools with VS2012 to make using Git easier. Read …

Here's a quick tip if you have some side loaded apps on windows 8/RT and your developer licence has expired. When this happens the apps have a cross on them and are unable to open taking you to the store.

Problem

Error "Your developer license has expired. To continue to use this app, please renew your …

Today I ran into an issue on a win RT device when trying to download few folders from our SharePoint site using Explorer.

The Problem

This problem occurred when I used the ‘Open with Explorer’ interface in the Library Tools > Library pane to get the required folders, as I wanted to copy a few folders down from …

Hello, I’m currently setting up my first blog and this is a post to check its configured correctly. All being well this should go to my LinkedIn and Twitter accounts auto-magically .class="image_figure image_internal image_unprocessed" …

[Updated 4 Fe 2013 See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2013/02/01/hotfixes-for-tfs-2012-update-1-tfs-2012-1.aspx for the latest on this ]

One of the side effects of the problems we had with TFS 2012 QU1 was that when we created a new team within a team project contributors had no rights to the teams default …