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Oct 21, 2014 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Most of the guidance you’ll find about Visual Studio Ultimate Load Tests suggests that they are only for load testing Web Performance tests. Actually, they can be used to load other types of …

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Develop.Idaho 2014 Videos Published

May 9, 2014 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Updated 20 May: Added presentations (but no videos) from the "Business of Software" track. It took a few extra days to get these produced and published, but they are now on YouTube for your …

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What's New in the Visual Studio Scrum 2013.2 Process Template

Mar 24, 2014 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I noticed today that the process templates in Visual Studio Online are showing a “.2” suffix in their names. I’m not exactly sure when this update occurred, but am pretty sure it’s related to Visual …

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Free TFS 2013 Webinars in March and April 2014

Mar 17, 2014 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I noticed that Microsoft Customer Service & Support (CSS) is offering a number of great webinars in the coming days on various TFS and ALM topics … TFS Release Management Tool (19 March …

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The ProcessTemplateEditorPackage package did not load correctly

Feb 26, 2014 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Yesterday, while using Team Explorer for Visual Studio 2013 to customize a process template, I ran into this error … As suggested, I checked the ActivityLog.xml, but it didn’t offer anything more …

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TFS 2013 Best Practices Analyzer (BPA) fails with %TFSServerURLValidated% error

Feb 14, 2014 • 2 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Earlier this week I installed the Team Foundation Server 2013 Power Tools and went to run a BPA scan. It finished very quickly, giving me a couple of strange %TFSServerURLValidated% messages … …

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Unconfiguring Team Foundation Server 2013

Feb 13, 2014 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

This is an update to an older post that I had written for TFS 2010. Here are the steps to unconfigure TFS 2013 … Execute tfsconfig setup /uninstall:all. This should be done from the …

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Quality Enablement through Agile Testing

Nov 6, 2013 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Thank you for attending last week’s Quality Enablement through Agile Testing event put on by Microsoft here in Boise. I hope you had fun exploring the testing tools in Visual Studio and Team …

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SharePoint 2013 support for Windows Server 2012 R2

Nov 6, 2013 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

UPDATE (14 March 2014) - As a few of you have pointed out, Service Pack 1 for Microsoft SharePoint Server 2013 is now available. Wanted to share a surprise impediment from earlier this week. …

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