I have been trying to get SQL 2012 SSIS packages built on a TFS2012.2 build system. As has been pointed out by many people the problem is you cannot build SQL SSIS packages with MSBuild. This means you have to resort to call Visual Studio DevEnv.exe from within your build. Jakob Ehn did a great post on this subject, …

I have just upgrade our Blog Server from BlogEngine.NET 2.7 to 2.8, all seems to have gone well, basically it is just file copies as there is no DB schema change, so… backup your blogs folder delete it’s contents copy in the the new release from the zip fix the SQL connection string copy around a few files as detailed …

Thanks to everyone who attended my webinar session today in TFS Lab Management, I hope the audio issues were not too much of a problem and you found the session useful. We are looking into the causes of the audio problem so hopefully the next webinar will not need people dialling in via the phone unless they want to. A …

If you are interested finding out more about TFS Lab Management why not come to the [Black Marble Bite size webinar](http://blackmarble.com/events.aspx?event=Tips for Visual Studio Lab Management (Black Marble Byte Size Webinar)) next Tuesday (23rd April). I will be giving a basic overview of the product and discussing …

I have mentioned in past posts the issues we had doing our first quarterly update for TFS 2012. Well today we had scheduled our upgrade to 2012.2 and I am please to say it all seems to have worked. Unlike the last upgrade, this time we were doing nothing complex such as moving DB tier SQL instances; so it was a …

I had a great time yesterday at the VISUG Conference in Antwerp, thanks to everyone involved in event. The ALM track organiser Pieter and all the speakers, myself, Martin and Neno, were really pleased to see how full our room was all day. There certainly seems to be more interest in ALM than ever before. If you want to …

Whist testing an upgrade of TFS 2010 to TFS 2012.2 I was getting a number of verification errors in the TFS configuration upgrade wizard. They were all TF400129 based such as TF400129: Verifying that the team project collection has space for new system fields but also mention models and schema. A quick search threw up …

I am often asked how well TFS it can be integrated within a company’s larger management processes. This is an especially common question in companies where developing software is not their primary business, it is just a means to enable the business’s core business. A really nice discussion on this question can be found …

This is a follow up to my older post on a similar subject When composing a new Lab Environment from running VMs the PC you are running MTM on needs to be able to connect to the running VMs. It does this using IP so at the most basic level you need to be able to resolve the name of the VM to an IP address. If your VM is …

I did a post a year or so ago about setting up TFS Labs and mentioned command C:Program FilesMicrosoft Team Foundation Server 2010Tools>tfsconfig lab /hostgroup /collectionName:myTpc ?/labenvironmentplacementpolicy:aggressive /edit /Name:"My hosts group" This can be used tell TFS Lab Management to place …