Author: Simon Reindl

Mar 14, 2013 • 3 min read • Simon Reindl

I was asked the other day how to rename a Team Project Collection. There is a way, and it is more like a three card shuffle than anything else, and will work in TFS2010 and TFS2012. The super quick …

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Useful TFS Links

Sep 19, 2012 • 2 min read • Simon Reindl

I have just finished delivering a Team Foundation Course today, and we had some great discussions around TFS Administration, upgrading, adoption etc. As usual, there is a whole pile of questions that …

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TFS #loc.MinimumNetFXVersion and Windows 2012 0x0000005D

Jul 3, 2012 • 2 min read • Simon Reindl

A tale of two error in the path to RC install. I wanted to install the RC of TFS2012 to do some upgrade proving. To keep up to date the target is Windows Server 2012, running SQL 2012, and …

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Running nUnit in a TFS11 build on 64 bit server

Apr 30, 2012 • 2 min read • Simon Reindl

Overview In TFS/VS 11, frameworks other than MS Test are supported, which is cool. Peter Provost mentions them here. OK, so you start to use this great new feature, queue up a team build and the …

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Reporting Waste with TFS

Apr 11, 2012 • 3 min read • Simon Reindl

Tracking waste in TFS Overview Tracking waste and gathering the empirical data is one of the most effective ways of convincing people for the need to adapt. This needs an Estimated Effort field, as …

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Upgrade TFS 2005 to TFS11 Beta

Mar 20, 2012 • 5 min read • Simon Reindl

This is one journey to upgrade TFS 2005 to TFS11 Key points if you are in a hurry You only get one chance at the upgrade, on the initial install. You need to do this as two upgrades TFS2005 –> …

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SQL 2012 powered by Visual Studio

Mar 15, 2012 • 1 min read • Simon Reindl

In case you hadn’t seen it, SQL Management Studio 2012 is now a Visual Studio powered tool. Technorati Tags: Visual Studio,SQL2012,IDE Nice…

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Installing the TFS11 Beta

Mar 5, 2012 • 2 min read • Simon Reindl

Config To use the new version of TFS on a clean VM, I am going to use the following: VMWare Virtual Machine, 2 Proc, 2 Core 2 GB RAM Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 64 bit SQL2012 RC Enterprise – the …

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TFS2010 Build output to a Custom Folder Structure

Feb 29, 2012 • 2 min read • Simon Reindl

How to output TFS2010 build output to a subfolder The scenario that exists is that I need to build a more detailed tree structure in the build output. I was looking for the least intrusive means of …

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