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Today I have been setting up a cross domain TFS proxy. The developers are in one domain and the TFS server in another. Given there is no trust between these domains you have use a trick to get it to work.

So I created a local user tfsproxy.local on both the TFS server and proxy with the same password on each. At the …

Interested in some tutor delivered training on TFS 2012? Well Anthony Borton, the TFS trainer and ALM MVP, is over in the UK running his excellent set of the TFS/VS 2012 focused courses.

• TFS 2012 Configuration and Administration
  10th – 12th June 2013 | Course Outline
• Software testing with Visual Studio 201213th- 14th …

The problem

I have been working on a project that contains SharePoint 2010 WSP packages and a MSI distributed WPF application. These projects are all in a single solution with their unit tests. I have been getting a problem with our TFS 2012.2 build system, all the projects compile but at the test point I get the …

Today Black Marble is hosting the Yorkshire Global Windows Azure Bootcamp event.

To see what is happening check out the photos on our Facebook gallery and the #GlobalWindowsAzure Twitter hashtag

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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…

1. backup your blogs folder
2. delete it’s contents
3. copy in the the new release from the zip
4. fix the SQL connection string
5. copy around a few files as detailed …