Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

November 2012 - Buck Hodges

Doc on unattended configuration of TFS 2012

November 29, 2012 Nov 29, 2012 11/29/12
Buck Hodges
TFS 2012 (RTM and newer) added a new tfsconfigure unattend command that supports unattended configuration of the server, build proxy, and SharePoint extensions. There’s now a new whitepaper available that explains it. While the paper is titled Unattended Installation of TFS 2012, it’s really unattended configuration. Unattended ...

November power tools release for TFS 2012

November 29, 2012 Nov 29, 2012 11/29/12
Buck Hodges
Today we published a new release of the power tools for TFS 2012 Update 1. This includes important fixes for the backup/restore power tool to be compatible with the release of TFS 2012 Update 1. We did a lot of refactoring of the server DLLs for the cloud service, http://tfs.visualstudio.com, and we needed to update the backup/restore power ...

TFS and VS 2012 Update 1 now available

November 26, 2012 Nov 26, 2012 11/26/12
Buck Hodges
[Update 2/1/13] A fix for the issues is now available. [Update 1/14/13] See this post for the latest on issues with attaching a collection. As announced on Soma’s blog, Update 1 for Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012 is now available. Over at the ALM blog, you can find more details on what’s new. For those using the Team ...

Windows Phone SDK now available in Build for Team Foundation Service

November 9, 2012 Nov 9, 2012 11/9/12
Buck Hodges
Brian mentioned this in a blog post last week, but I think it may have gotten lost in everything else that was going on. The Team Foundation Service’s build feature (i.e., build in the cloud) has the Windows Phone SDK installed on it now so that you can build you Windows Phone 8 (and 7) apps. The blocker here had been that the SDK could ...