Really pleased to say I have been renewed as a Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio ALM. It great to be involved with such as activity community as the ALM crowd, can’t wait for the next summit in November.

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The next DDDNorth event is to be held at Sunderland University on the 12th October. Session submission has now opened so why not get your session proposal in?

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Just wasted a bit of time trying to find the build tab on a TFS Team Project hosted on the hosted http://tfs.visualstudio.com using a Git repository. I was looking on team explorer expecting to see something like

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Background

if you use Twitter in any web you will probably have noticed that they have switched off the 1.0 API, you have to use the 1.1 version which is stricter over OAUTH. This meant the Twitter feeds into our blog server stopped working on the 10th of June. The old call of …

An interesting change with Lab Management 2012 and SCVMM 2012 is that templates become a lot less useful. In the SCVMM 2008 versions you had a choice when you stored VMs in the SCVMM library. …

• You could store a fully configured VM
• or a generalised template.

When you added the template to a new environment you could …

Martin Hinshelwood did a recent post on moving source code between TFS servers using  git tf. He mentioned that you could use the --deep option to get the whole changeset check-in history.

Being fairly new to using Git, in anything other than the simplest scenarios, it took me a while to get the commands right. This is …