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Interesting license change for VS Online for ‘Stakeholder’ users
Richard Fennell Jul 14, 2014 · 2 min read · Uncategorised ·
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All teams have ‘Stakeholder’, the people the are driving a project forward, who want the new system to be able to do their job; but are often not directly involved in the production/testing of the system. In the past this has been an awkward group to provide TFS access for. If they want to see any detail of the …
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A new badge for Channel9 Guy
Richard Fennell Jul 7, 2014 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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My Channel9 Guy has a new MVP badge
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Post by one of our Testers about experiences with CodeUI and Windows Store Apps on the MSDN blog
Richard Fennell Jul 3, 2014 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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Nice post by Riccardo Viglianisi, one of Black Marble’s Testers, about his experiences with CodeUI and Windows Store Apps published on the MSDN UK Visual Studio blog.
Well worth a read if you are looking at this technology.

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Re-awarded Microsoft MVP for the 7th Year
Richard Fennell Jul 3, 2014 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I am really happy to say that I have had my MVP for Visual Studio (ALM) re-awarded, so am an MVP for the 7th time. It is a privilege to get to work with such a great group of people as a have met via the MVP programme.
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How long is my TFS 2010 to 2013 upgrade going to take – Part 2
Richard Fennell Jun 27, 2014 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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Back in January I did a post How long is my TFS 2010 to 2013 upgrade going to take? I have now done some more work with one of the clients and have more data. Specially the initial trial was 2010 > 2013 RTM on a single tier test VM; we have now done a test upgrade from 2010 > 2013.2 on the same VM and also one to …
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Submissions open for DDDNorth 2014
Richard Fennell Jun 25, 2014 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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DDD North is coming to the University of Leeds on Saturday 18 October.
It is now open for Session submission
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List of TFS Widgets
Richard Fennell Jun 23, 2014 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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The ALM Rangers are again producing a list of useful tools and widgets for TFS. It can be found at aka.ms/widgets and should be updated regularly
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Cloning tfs repository with git-tf gives a "a server path must be absolute"
Richard Fennell Jun 9, 2014 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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I am currently involved in moving some TFS TFVC hosted source to a TFS Git repository. The first step was to clone the source for a team project from TFS using the command
1git tf clone --deep [http://tfsserver01:8080/tfs/defaultcollection](http://tfsserver01:8080/tfs/defaultcollection) ‘$My Project’ localrepo1
and it …

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‘The Circle’ a good read
Richard Fennell Jun 7, 2014 · 1 min read · Uncategorised ·
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Seven whole years ago I wrote about re-reading [corrected – getting old and forgetful not William Gibson’s it was] Douglas Coupland’s Microserfs and how it compared to his then new book JPod. And how they both reflected the IT world at their time. Speculative fiction always says more about the time they are written …
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Our TFS Lab Management Infrastructure
Richard Fennell Jun 5, 2014 · 3 min read · Uncategorised ·
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After my session Techorama last week I have been asked some questions over how we built our TFS Lab Management infrastructure. Well here is a bit more detail, thanks to Rik for helping correcting what I had misremembered and providing much of the detail.

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