Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

TFS 2012 - Buck Hodges

How to provide non-admins access to activity and job pages

September 15, 2014 Sep 15, 2014 09/15/14
Buck Hodges
When we shipped TFS 2012, we introduced a feature in the web UI that makes it easy to look at the activity and job history. In the post I mentioned that you had to be an admin to be able to see the information. A question about this came up last week, and Sean Lumley, one of the folks who built the feature, pointed out there is a specific ...

Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 2 supports 2010 Build Agents and Controllers

March 30, 2013 Mar 30, 2013 03/30/13
Buck Hodges
[UPDATE 9/26/13] TFS 2013 will include support for both TFS 2010 build agents and controllers and also TFS 2012 build agents and controllers. One of the changes we made in TFS 2012 for Update 2 was to support TFS 2010 build agents and controllers. This provides several major benefits. The first is the obvious one of not having to upgrade your...

OData Service for TFS v2

January 9, 2013 Jan 9, 2013 01/9/13
Buck Hodges
Brian Keller has released a beta of the second version of his OData service. We are also working to bring it to TF Service, so stay tuned. Check out the beta and give him feedback! OData Service for Team Foundation Server v2 Today we are releasing the beta of the OData Service for Team Foundation Server v2 along with a sample Windows ...

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 ...