Just had a problem with a TFS 2012 Lab Management deployment build. It was working this morning, deploying two web sites via MSDeploy and a DB via a DacPac, then running some CodedUI tests. However, when I tried a new deployment this afternoon it kept failing with the error: The deployment task was aborted because …

I posted yesterday that we had upgraded to the current version of BE 2.9. We, as you might expect, had a few minor issues, but I must say the support on the discussion forums has been excellent. This included the problems I had that were down to missing files and web.config issues (basically my copy errors when moving …

I have just upgrade our Blog Server from BlogEngine.NET 2.8 to 2.9, all seems to have gone well, as before basically it is just copies files and adds s table to the DB schema, so… backup your blogs folder and SQL DB in case of problems delete the contents of the blogs folder copy in the the new release from the zip run …

Twas the night before Christmas and…. To cut a long story short the PC that runs my Window Media Center (MCE) got switched on and off at the wall twice whilst Christmas tree lights were being put up. Now the PC is running WIndows 8.1 on modern hardware, so it should have been OK, and mostly was. However I found a …

If you are using the TFS API to get a list of user who have rights in a given version control folder you need to be careful as you don’t get back the domainuser name you might expect from the GetPermissions(..) call. You actually get the display name. Now that might be fine for you but I needed the domainuser format as …

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.