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Diving into the Visual Studio Scrum 2.0 Reports

Mar 12, 2012 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Being the geek I am, I wanted to take a detailed look at the reports in the new Scrum template. Rather than wait for guidance to be posted, or call up my friends at Microsoft (again), I thought I …

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What’s new and different in Visual Studio Scrum 2.0?

Mar 12, 2012 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Try this: Download the Visual Studio Scrum 2.0 – Preview 3 process template from the Team Foundation Server 11 Beta into one folder and then do the same with the Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 version of …

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SharePoint Foundation 2010 using local accounts

Mar 12, 2012 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

When configuring Team Foundation Server 11, the default action is to install and configure SharePoint Foundation 2010. I think this is great. I really love SharePoint 2010, and am glad that Microsoft …

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I don’t want to be Windows User in my Visual Studio 11 Beta

Mar 9, 2012 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I don’t know why it bothers me so much to see "Windows User" every time I fire up my Visual Studio 11 Beta … … but since it does, I thought I would share with you the steps I took to change it. …

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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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Visual Studio 11 Beta Downloads

Feb 29, 2012 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Microsoft has made the Visual Studio 11 beta versions available today. #Awesome I’m glad to see the lineup includes some familiar faces as well as some nice surprises (i.e. Microsoft Test Manager now …

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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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Scrum Power of 3 imbalance – Scrum Master as Product Owner

Feb 21, 2012 • 4 min read • Simon Reindl

The question was recently posed to me – What conflicts occur if the Scrum Master is also the Product Owner? This can be seen as a workaround for not getting a dedicated Product Owner, which is …

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Migrating Areas and Iterations from TFS2008 to TFS2010

Feb 14, 2012 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I ran into a migration today where the client had scores of Area nodes in their TFS 2008 team project that they wanted migrated over to their new TFS 2010 team project. My usual "Well, if you …

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