Brian Harry's Blog

Backing up and Restoring your TFS Server

August 18, 2010 Aug 18, 2010 08/18/10

Brian Harry

Backing up and restoring a TFS server can be daunting.  There are potentially a lot of services and a lot of steps.  As soon as we shipped TFS 2010, I knew we had to do something to improve it and we began talking about how we were going to simplify the process.  For a thorough understanding of what is involved, see: http://msdn...

Backing up and Restoring your TFS Server

August 18, 2010 Aug 18, 2010 08/18/10

Brian Harry

Backing up and restoring a TFS server can be daunting.  There are potentially a lot of services and a lot of steps.  As soon as we shipped TFS 2010, I knew we had to do something to improve it and we began talking about how we were going to simplify the process.  For a thorough understanding of what is involved, see: http://msdn...

Customizing TFS 2010 Process Guidance

August 13, 2010 Aug 13, 2010 08/13/10

Brian Harry

We’ve just released 3 packages that will enable you to start with one of the 3 base TFS 2010 Process Guidance sets and customize it and deploy it to your installation.  Read Allen’s blog post on a way to do this with WebMatrix.The download links are here: Brian...

Some detail behind the CodePlex move to TFS 2010

August 12, 2010 Aug 12, 2010 08/12/10

Brian Harry

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a short post about the move of CodePlex from TFS 2008 to TFS 2010 and some of the benefits you’ll see from that.  Today, I want to drill a bit deeper into the infrastructure changes that went along with it and some additional benefits.  As you know making TFS more hosting friendly (whether it&...

Another option to get data from Quality Center into TFS

August 9, 2010 Aug 9, 2010 08/9/10

Brian Harry

Just recently, a new tool called Scrat was released.  It enables migrating artifacts from HP Quality Center to TFS.  It is the most comprehensive tool I know of, handling Requirements, Bugs, Test Cases, Attachments, History and Links between items).  I haven’t had a chance to try it myself but I’ve known and worked ...

TFS Integration Platform Updated

August 9, 2010 Aug 9, 2010 08/9/10

Brian Harry

We’ve just released a new version of the TFS Integration Platform.  This is the first “official, finished” release that contains the new synchronization architecture and adaptors for: Previous versions made available were “pre-release”.  We’ve been using the new tool kit for ...

Update on the TFS Upgrade Fix

August 5, 2010 Aug 5, 2010 08/5/10

Brian Harry

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about a moderately rare problem with upgrading from TFS 2005/2008 to TFS 20010.  Although the number of people affected is modest, the severity of the issue is bad enough that we decided to re-release all TFS images so that the upgrade fix is automatically included and no one who downloads new images will ...

Windows and SQL Patches for TFS

August 4, 2010 Aug 4, 2010 08/4/10

Brian Harry

My post on TFS updates a couple of weeks ago generated an internal discussion that resulted in the collection of all of the SQL and Windows updates we’ve had to apply to our Dogfood server to get it running well.  Now, you have to remember that our dogfood server runs at incredibly high scale and many of the issues we’ve hit ...

Windows and SQL Patches for TFS

August 4, 2010 Aug 4, 2010 08/4/10

Brian Harry

My post on TFS updates a couple of weeks ago generated an internal discussion that resulted in the collection of all of the SQL and Windows updates we’ve had to apply to our Dogfood server to get it running well.  Now, you have to remember that our dogfood server runs at incredibly high scale and many of the issues we’ve hit ...

Configuring Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server with TFS 2010

August 4, 2010 Aug 4, 2010 08/4/10

Brian Harry

I’ve heard numerous times from customers that getting MOSS configured properly to work with TFS 2010 in order to get the best dashboard and analytics experience is VERY difficult.  I have to say, I’ve done it myself a few times and there are a lot of steps and without a MOSS expert watching over my shoulder, I think I would ...