Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

July 2006 - Buck Hodges

Using an SMTP server that requires authentication

July 21, 2006 Jul 21, 2006 07/21/06
Buck Hodges
Bill Essary provided the following as a work around for using a Team Foundation Server email notifications with an SMTP server that requires a user name and password. TFS does not directly support using a username and password to connect to an SMTP server but it is possible to work around this limitation by using an SMTP virtual server on the ...

Removing the Team Foundation Server association in Microsoft Project and Microsoft Excel files

July 19, 2006 Jul 19, 2006 07/19/06
Buck Hodges
Here's a handy tip if you find yourself needing to disassociate or unbind a Microsoft Project (.mpp) or Microsoft Excel (.xls) file from a Team Foundation Server, perhaps because you changed the name of the server, the server no longer exists, etc.Microsoft ProjectYogita Manghnani, a PM for TFS, posted the following process in the ...

Team Foundation Server and CodePlex

July 1, 2006 Jul 1, 2006 07/1/06
Buck Hodges
If you haven't seen CodePlex, you'll want to check it out.  It's Microsoft's shared community development web site, and it uses TFS to host development projects.  Brad Wilson of the CodePlex team provides some nice answers to about 10 questions of general interest on TFS and CodePlex. Answering Questions About CodePlex and TFS Phil ...