The output window in Visual Studio shows lots of useful information; but it doesn't link it to the time.
Sharepoint deployments take ages and I’m quite often distracted and forget whether I have triggered the deploy or not.

I want to quickly check the output window and see when I last triggered the deploy. I found 2 …

I am currently involved in moving some TFS TFVC hosted source to a TFS Git repository.  The first step was to clone the source for a team project from TFS using the command

1git tf clone --deep [http://tfsserver01:8080/tfs/defaultcollection](http://tfsserver01:8080/tfs/defaultcollection) ‘$My Project’ localrepo1

and it …

Microsoft UK have been running technical events around the UK for a couple of years now, and it’s a great thing. Too many events are focused in the south of England and there are lots of IT pros north of the M25!

Starting on Monday, the latest series of events kicks off. The People-Centric IT roadshow content is being …

Richard and I spend a good deal of time talking about Lab Manager and our environments. I’ve written here before about our migration to the latest versions of the various components of Lab and both Richard and I have delivered sessions at user groups and conferences.

Richard was in Belgium last week for Techorama, …

Lets get the disclaimer out of the way first: What I’ve done is absolutely unsupported by Microsoft. Just because it works for me does not guarantee it will work for you and I am not in any way recommending that you follow my lead!

I use a great many virtual machines for both customer work, internal projects and just …

After my session Techorama last week I have been asked some questions over how we built our TFS Lab Management infrastructure. Well here is a bit more detail, thanks to Rik for helping correcting what I had misremembered and providing much of the detail.