May 2005 | Buck Hodges

VSTS Pricing Announcement

Buck HodgesMay 12, 2005May 12, 200505/12/05

Pricing is an important topic, and I've written several posts about it. Today Rick LaPlante announced changes to the pricing of VSTS in response to customer feedback.Here's one part from Rick's post that I think will really make some people happy. One area where we received a lot of feedback was from smaller organizations ...

Team Foundation Hardware Requirements

Buck HodgesMay 11, 2005May 11, 200505/11/05

Many folks are interested in guidance on hardware. In the Team Foundation forum, Brian Harry, Product Unit Manager of Team Foundation, posted the latest preliminary hardware requirements.If you are going with a single processor box (or if you want to maximize performance), I would recommend changing the warehouse update interval to ...

Eliminate ctl00oReportCell error and simplifying team project creation authorization

Buck HodgesMay 10, 2005May 10, 200505/10/05

Mike Attili has a posted a couple of useful things for using the Team Foundation beta.If you are tired of getting the "Unable to locate control: ctl00oReportCell" message, check out his solution to elminating the problem in Eliminate ctl00oReportCell error in Team System Project Portal.He also provides a guide for setting up a group and ...

How to fix a problem with Windows backup and the Volume Shadow Service after installing Yukon April CTP

Buck HodgesMay 7, 2005May 7, 200505/7/05

In the Team Foundation forum, a user posted the following problem with Windows backup after installing Team Foundation Server, including the April CTP of SQL 2005. Prior to installing Team Foundation Server and Client I was able to use the Windows backup utility to successfully create an ASR backup and full backup of the server. After ...

Microsoft to expand small Durham office

Buck HodgesMay 3, 2005May 3, 200505/3/05

The News & Observer wrote an article about Brian, Craig, and our office.Microsoft to expand small Durham office DURHAM -- Brian Harry jokes that he called Microsoft the evil empire before it was popular to do so. "I only ever worked for start-ups, and in those days, I viewed it as a behemoth," said Harry, 38. Now he runs a development ...

Add an RSS feed to Team Foundation Source Control

Buck HodgesMay 3, 2005May 3, 200505/3/05

Jeff Lucovsky posted a nice two-part series on setting up an RSS feed for your Team Foundation source control server. Check it out. Team Foundation RSS Feed Generator for Source Control Part 2: What's my source control server doing? A RSS feed to keep track of checkins...

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