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 …

This year, our artistic team has surpassed itself with another fabulous Christmas Card ... or book, and it is coming to a desk or doormat near you. 'Shape-Shifting Santa and the Merry Mutation Team' tells the tale of how the heroic Black Marble brigade once again saves Christmas by rescuing Santa from another Yuletide …

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.

A guest post I wrote has just been published on the UK MSDN blog titled ‘How VPNs can help you use your MSDN Azure benefits with TFS Lab Management’

I have just published a new project to CodePlex http://tfsalertsdsl.codeplex.com/. Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) provides an alerting model where given a certain condition, such as a check-in, work item edit or build completion, an email can be sent to an interest party or a call made to a SOAP based web …