Buck Hodges

Director of Engineering, Azure

Director of Engineering, Azure DevOps

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VSTS Pricing Announcement

May 12th, 2005
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

May 11th, 2005
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

May 10th, 2005
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

May 7th, 2005
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

May 3rd, 2005
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

May 3rd, 2005
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...

VSTS 2005 FAQ blog posts fixes for known issues

April 21st, 2005
The Visual Studio 2005 Team System blog functions as sort of a FAQ in blog form.  They've started posting known issues and workarounds for the new beta release.  The first two posts are about the problems antivirus software can cause during setup and what to do about AD/AM setup failures due to spaces in paths...

Data tier load with Team Foundation beta

April 19th, 2005
Did you install your beta data tier in Virtual PC or Virtual Server and see a high CPU load while its running?  Even on real hardware, you may notice some load when nothing would appear to be going on.  Someone mentioned on an internal mailing list that the data tier CPU load for a combined app and data tier installed ...

Visual Studio Team Foundation Forum on MSDN

April 19th, 2005
Speaking of the forum, be sure to check out the Visual Studio Team Foundation forum.  Folks like Mike have posted useful information, and lots of MS folks are answering questions.  You may even get an answer from Rick LaPlante.The MSDN forums are nice, and they've obviously put quite a bit of work into them.  The forums are...

SQL Server Reporting Services Permissions and Visual Studio Team Foundation Beta 2

April 19th, 2005
Mike Attili has a nice post on fixing reporting service permissions, Problems with SQL Server Reporting Services Permissions.  Bruce Taimana answered his post in the forum stating that was the correct way to handle it in the beta...