Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

October 2006 - Buck Hodges

Moving the TFS SharePoint site to another server

October 30, 2006 Oct 30, 2006 10/30/06
Buck Hodges
Brian Harry talks about the documentation on how to move your TFS SharePoint installation to a different server.  It's important to note that he calls this out as not being a trivial undertaking, so you'll want to be extremely cautious. Moving your TFS SharePoint site We've gotten tons of requests since we shipped TFS v1.0 from customers ...

A checkin policy to detect that the build is broken in a CI environment

October 26, 2006 Oct 26, 2006 10/26/06
Buck Hodges
One important aspect of Continuous Integration is getting notification that the build is broken.  One common way is via a desktop notification from an application like TfsAlert that listens for events (or polls if there isn't a TFS-style event notification mechanism).Ideally, the build or unit test break would be noticed as soon as ...

Getting desktop notifications for TFS events

October 26, 2006 Oct 26, 2006 10/26/06
Buck Hodges
Clark Sell has created a home on CodePlex for a useful desktop notification tool called TfsAlert. TfsAlert is a .Net 3.0 smart client which monitors for user selected TFS events and will display a balloon window in the Windows TaskBar Notification Area. It is built on top of WCF where you can subscribe to any TFS event you feel fit. It's ...

An Introduction to Team Foundation Server Version Control from a Visual SourceSafe User’s Perspective

October 20, 2006 Oct 20, 2006 10/20/06
Buck Hodges
Steven St. Jean has just posted a great document that helps users make the move to Team Foundation Server's version control.  While his goal is to help VSS users, this document will help users moving from a lot of other source control systems as well, such as Star Team.  He includes lots of screen shots.I'd highly recommend this to ...

Assigning work items for failed builds

October 17, 2006 Oct 17, 2006 10/17/06
Buck Hodges
Steven St. Jean has written a nice post about how to assign to a particular person the work item that's created for a failed build.  When he talks about the name for the Assigned To field, it must match the name that's displayed in work item tracking.  WIT shows the display name for a user, rather than the shorter domain login (aka ...

Creating a new server from an old one: Beware of the InstanceId

October 17, 2006 Oct 17, 2006 10/17/06
Buck Hodges
[UPDATE 8/23/14] The MSDN topic Move Team Foundation Server has the information about cloning TFS 2013. Today, that info is in the Q&A section at the bottom of that page.[This post contains instructions for TFS 2005/2008 and TFS 2010, which is in a separate section below]Grant Holliday wrote a post called, TFS InstanceId, ServerMap.xml and...