My Arc mouse started behaving strangely today, very jumpy. Felt like the cursor was being pulled left. Turns out the problem was a tiny hair caught in the led sensor slot You could see there was a problem as the led was flashing a lot, when it is normally solidly on if turn over the mouse you look into the slot. Once I …

Thanks to anyone who came to my session ‘TFS is not just for Visual Studio users’ at the Visual Studio 2013 at NDC London yesterday. Hope you found it useful and are now thinking of TFS as a tool for heterogeneous teams, not just developers using Visual Studio. As I discussed there are many options: Developers can work …

The TFS 2013 Brian Keller demo VM is available at http://aka.ms/vs13almvm

Whilst in the USA last week I bought a Surface 2 tablet. Upon boot it ran around 20 updates, as you expect, but unfortunately one of these seemed to remove its ability to play MP4 videos, giving a 0xc00d36b4 error whenever you try. A bit of a pain as one of the main reasons I wanted a tablet was for watching training …

Are you interested in building your own release pipeline using only the tools within TFS 2012 (or 2013)? If so why not have a look at the Microsoft Patterns & Practice publication Building a Release Pipeline with Team Foundation Server 2012 it provides great background and a full work through via its hands-on-lab.

A guest post I wrote has just been published on the UK MSDN blog titled ‘How VPNs can help you use your MSDN Azure benefits with TFS Lab Management’

I have just published a new project to CodePlex http://tfsalertsdsl.codeplex.com/. Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) provides an alerting model where given a certain condition, such as a check-in, work item edit or build completion, an email can be sent to an interest party or a call made to a SOAP based web …

Whilst testing a WCF web service I got the error The authentication schemes configured on the host ('IntegratedWindowsAuthentication') do not allow those configured on the binding 'BasicHttpBinding' ('Anonymous'). Please ensure that the SecurityMode is set to Transport or TransportCredentialOnly. Additionally, this may …

Lab Management has a lot of moving parts, especially if you are using SCVMM based environments. All the parts have to communicate if the system is work. One of the most common problem I have seen are due to DNS issues. A slowly propagating DNS can cause chaos as the test controller will not be able to resolve the name …

We have recently gone through an exercise to provide a consistent set of prebuilt configured VMs for use in our TFS Lab Management environments. This is not an insignificant piece of work as this post by Rik Hepworth discusses detailing all the IT pro work he had to do to create them. This is all before we even think …