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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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Team Alerts in Team Foundation Server 11

Feb 10, 2012 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Team Alerts are just one of the many new features coming in the next version of Team Foundation Server. They simplify the creation and management of alerts that impact that entire team. For example, …

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Thought for today: TFS build agents are like shared, network printers

Jan 23, 2012 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Here’s your thought for the day: Think of Team Foundation Build build agents like shared, network printers in a large enterprise. Each printer can be assigned one or more tags such as laser, ink, …

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Run Visual Studio 11 ALM VMs on a 32-bit operating system

Jan 9, 2012 • 3 min read • Richard Hundhausen

Like most Microsoft ALM geeks, I downloaded the Visual Studio 11 ALM VM the day Brian Keller posted it. One of the first things I realized is that the VM is for 64-bit operating systems only. This is …

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Chicago Visual Studio ALM User Group: VS11 and Scrum

Oct 20, 2011 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

I was in town this week delivering a Professional Scrum Developer Train-The-Trainer (TTT) event. Last night I gave a presentation to a full room at the Chicago Visual Studio ALM User Group on using …

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Microsoft launches Team Foundation Service Preview

Sep 14, 2011 • 1 min read • Richard Hundhausen

There are many, many new and cool technologies and products being introduced, announced, and launched at //Build this week. One of these is close to my heart: the Visual Studio Team Foundation …

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