DDD10 registration opens today, and probably closes about 10 minutes later (server overloads allowing) from past experience. If you can’t make the date, or the don’t fancy the trip down south to TVP remember DDDNorth in October at Bradford University has many of the same speakers and is located in a far more convenient …
Read MoreWhilst moving all our older test Hyper-V VMs into a new TFS 2012 Lab Management instance I have had to address a few problems. I already posted about the main one of cross domain communications. This post aims to list the other workaround I have used. MTM can’t communicate with the VMs When setting up an environment …
Read MoreI don’t know about your systems but historically we have had VMs running in test domains that are connected to our corporate LAN. Thus allowing our staff and external testers to access them from their development PCs or through our firewall after providing suitable test domain credentials. These test setups are great …
Read MoreI installed Office 2013 customer preview yesterday and all seemed good. Today I needed to create a new document using one of our company standard templates. I opened Word, went to the new document section and was presented with a list of great looking templates, but not my custom ones. The page suggested I used search …
Read MoreWhen I installed Office 2013 customer preview all seemed good, loads of new metro look Office features. However when I tried to load my previously working Visual Studio 2012RC I got the error “The procedure entry point _atomic_fetch_sub_4 could not be located in the dynamic link library devenv.exe”. This is a known …
Read MoreOn site recently I had a problem that I could not access the site settings in reporting services if I used Internet Explorer from an client PC. IE worked fine on the server and other browsers were OK on the client, just not IE. Initially I though it was just rights, but that was not the case Turns out this is down to …
Read MoreTFS build service cannot connect to a TFS 2012 server - seeing EventID 206 MessageQueue in error log
Whilst setting up our new TFS 2012 instance I had a problem getting the build box to connect to the TFS server. When I started the build service (on a dedicated VM configured as a controller and single agent, connected to a TPC on the server on another VM). All appears OK, the controller and agents said they were …
Read MoreI am really happy to say that I have had my Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio ALM Re-awarded, it is a privilege to get to work with such a great group of people as a have met via the MVP programme.
Read MoreMy slides and those of other presenters at last weeks Microsoft cloud day have been published
Read MoreAs Brian Harry announced on his blog there are new 2012 editions of the two main TFS books on the way. I have added links to them from my reading list page but as yet you can only pre-order them as the release dates are not available.
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