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Download Microsoft Expression Studio 3 Trial

Jul 23, 2009 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

It’s released, but not yet available for MSDN subscribers. That said, you can download the Trial Edition and get your hands on it. My understanding is that you can product key activate it later, when …

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Automating the Creation of TFS Service Accounts

Jul 15, 2009 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

When setting up new virtual machines for Team Foundation Server 2010, I find myself having to manually create the four amigos: TFSSERVICE, TFSREPORTS, TFSBUILD, and WSSSERVICE (per the installation …

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Developers Developers Developers Developers Book

Jul 10, 2009 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

There’s a new book out (download or Lulu) which blends content from Microsoft's {You Shape} It campaign. Developers Developers Developers Developers is a free download and released under a Creative …

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Windows Server 2008 SP2 and TFS 2008

Jul 8, 2009 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Windows Update dropped the SP2 update at my doorstep yesterday. Since I’m always nervous about patching a server running Team Foundation Server, I checked with the VSTS product group. Brian Harry …

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First Look: Visual Studio Team System 2010

Jun 22, 2009 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Join us tomorrow (Tuesday, June 23rd) at 2pm MST for the following webcast: First Look: Visual Studio Team System 2010 Microsoft has been working hard on their next generation of Visual Studio Team …

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ClearCase and ClearQuest Integration and Migration Bookmarks

Jun 12, 2009 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Last week I gave a presentation on integration and migration options for IBM ClearCase and ClearQuest. Here are some bookmarks to some various tools and articles that came up: Blog post: Migrating …

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SoCal Team System

Jun 9, 2009 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Finally, there’s something to do in Southern California besides surfing, celeb-watching, and working on your tan. Mike Vincent, a VSTS MVP, has taken the lead on setting up this new user group. The …

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IBM Rational ClearCase and ClearQuest Sales Discussion Guide

May 29, 2009 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I’ve been getting asked more and more about IBM’s CC and CQ products, and not just how to migrate away from them to TFS. Some clients are wanting to know why Team Foundation Server is better. I think …

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Microsoft Learning's new Hardware Level 6

May 29, 2009 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I ran across this document today, which details out Microsoft’s virtualization strategy on implementing 64-bit (Hyper-V) virtualization in the classrooms. As virtual machines do more, and require more …

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