July 2006

Google Web Accelerator doesn’t mix with TFS

July 25, 2006 Jul 25, 2006 07/25/06

Buck Hodges

In the forum post Getting Latest Version Error (TF30063), a user was getting the error message "TF30063: You are not authorized to access Microsoft-IIS/6.0" when getting files from version control. I asked a bunch of questions, which the user answered, but that didn't really help. The user end up figuring it out. It ...

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 ...

Using the version control caching proxy server to speed up get

July 20, 2006 Jul 20, 2006 07/20/06

Buck Hodges

I've written about our experiences using the version control caching proxy server before, but I thought I'd post a screenshot that nicely shows the difference in bandwidth utilization. Before I do that, we were recently having a serious problem with our local caching proxy server being slow and sometimes not responding. Robert Horvick ...

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 ...

Buck Hodges

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