I have been trying to script the installation of all the tools and SDKs we need on our TFS Build Agent VMs. This included BizTalk. A quick check on MSDN showed the setup command line parameter I need to install the build components was

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3/ADDLOCAL ProjectBuildComponent

So I ran this via my VMs setup PowerShell …

Had an interesting issue during and upgrade from TFS 2012 to 2013.2 today. The upgrade of the files proceeded as expect and the wizard ran. It picked up the correct Data Tier, found the tfs_configuration Db and I was able to fill in the service account details.

However, when I got to the reporting section it found the …

Having installed my TFS Alert DSL today onto a client’s TFS 2013.2, I have realised some of the documentation was a little unclear. So I have have just updated the download page to provide an easy means to get

• The actual DSL implementation (without rebuilding the source)
• A command line tool to create an event source …

The problem

Today I found I had a problem when trying to associate a Release Management 2013.2 release pipeline with a TFS build. When I tried to select a team project the drop down for the release properties was empty.

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I have just submitted a session for DDDNorth 2014, which is at the University of Leeds on Saturday 18 October.

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I am currently rebuilding our TFS build infrastructure, we have too many build agents that are just too different, they don’t need to be. So I am looking at a standard set of features on a build agent and the ability to auto provision new instances to make scaling easier. More on this in a future post…

Anyway whilst …

Whilst working on an automated build where I needed to target a specific project I hit a problem. I would normally expect the MSBuild argument to be

/t:MyProject:Build

Where I want to build the project Myproject in my solution and perform the Build target (which is probably the default anyway).

However, my project was …