Adam Singer
Veni, vidi, expertus sum- I came, I saw, I tested
Pack-Man
In case you haven't heard, Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 is available! As you prepare to install...
Date: 08/15/2008
Hyperordinary
Apparently, if there's one thing that can get me blogging up a storm it's Hyper-V. I just can't get...
Date: 07/31/2008
Virtual Machine has gained a level
I just wrote this up for a coworker who asked me how to move a virtual machine from being hosted by...
Date: 07/30/2008
Ventriloquism: TFS Style
Quite a long time back, Buck posted about how to recover from the situation where one TFS machine is...
Date: 07/28/2008
Measuring up
I just had a somewhat random thought. Throughout the history of computing, we've come up with one...
Date: 07/26/2008
Hyper-V: They've gone plaid!
The title is a reference to "Spaceballs", of course. Recently, I've been doing all of my development...
Date: 07/25/2008
Edifice Reqs II: The SQL
Back in March, I posted about the requirements for TFS installation. I promised to post about "SQL...
Date: 07/16/2008
My service is packed, I'm ready to go
...installing here, upgrade once more(Adapted from "Leaving on a Jet Plane") A post on the Visual...
Date: 07/09/2008
Edifice Reqs
I'd like to tip my hat to the father of a guy I worked with as a camp counselor one summer long ago...
Date: 03/07/2008
Pre[ranasaurus] Reqs: The OSic Era
I've seen a bunch of questions over time about what it takes to get Team Foundation Server (TFS)...
Date: 03/04/2008
License to Nil
As a follow up to my explication on the various TFS Editions and a few thread I saw on the Visual...
Date: 02/09/2008
Absence makes the install grow fonder
As I mentioned in a previous post, our program manager Sudhir is blogging up a storm on all the...
Date: 08/16/2007
More machine than man now
The other day, someone not in the computer related fields asked me an interesting question. He...
Date: 08/02/2007
Great news!
I'm still alive! Yes, I know you all agree that's great news. At least, I think it's great news so...
Date: 07/31/2007
What's up, Doc?
This week, we have one of our User Education ("UE") folks out visiting the North Carolina office....
Date: 06/26/2007
On msiproperty.ini
Recently, in part because of such interesting capabilities as Sudhir mentions in his post on...
Date: 06/08/2007
He who permissions least, permissions best
I've heard a few questions and comments about our permission model recently. For example, some folks...
Date: 05/23/2007
A little bit of this, a little bit of chat
Another Team System chat is on the way! You've got questions? We've got answers - I just hope they...
Date: 04/11/2007
License and registration
As Rob Caron posted, there's a new Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Licensing white paper. Now,...
Date: 04/02/2007
Can you direct me to Directory Services?
As with many of my other Administration and Operations posts, this one stems from posts I've seen on...
Date: 03/29/2007
No 'I' in 'Team'
I've had this brewing in my head for awhile now and wanted to share it with you, my fellow...
Date: 03/28/2007
Random Acts of Group-ness
Following up from my last post "'Grep'ing Groups" and this question on the forums, here's a bit of...
Date: 02/28/2007
'Grep'ing Groups
Man have I been busy. What have I been busy doing? Well, see there's.... actually, I'll let Brian...
Date: 02/09/2007
The Chat in the Hat
[With apologies to Dr. Seuss]I'm working on a short program that will help you get information about...
Date: 02/06/2007
Living Large
As Brian points out, there are some new Orcas specifications available for TFS. I've been working on...
Date: 01/08/2007
Truth in advertizing
I'm an avid fan of Battlestar Galactica, as is only appropriate for a former Trekkie who only saw...
Date: 01/05/2007
Precognization
Around this time of year, you see plenty of folks trying to make predictions about what's going to...
Date: 01/02/2007
[insert holiday name] came early this year!
As you've probably heard by now via Soma, Brian, or Rob (among others), Visual Studio SP1 is...
Date: 12/15/2006
Virtual Green is made of People!
So you want to run Team Foundation Server, but don't have the physical machine resources. You think-...
Date: 12/14/2006
New and Improved
I always wondered about that phrase- "New and Improved". Either it's 'new', which means it never...
Date: 12/14/2006
To project and serve
I'm doing a lot of work around the Group Security Subsystem (or Group Security Service, depending...
Date: 12/07/2006
Get your users for nothin' and your sync for free
Many folks have written on the forums about trouble getting new users to access Team Foundation...
Date: 11/10/2006
Must be Monday
Steps to have an interesting Monday morning: Arrive at work to find that your coworker's door has...
Date: 11/06/2006
That was easy
Remember those Staples commercials with the "easy button"? Well, it seems like they're actually...
Date: 09/27/2006
Master of No Domain
I've seen several folks asking about Team Foundation Server in a non-domain (i.e. workgroup)...
Date: 09/22/2006
Le Chat-tue
For anyone who hasn't heard yet, there's a Team System Chat tomorrow. These chats are great ways to...
Date: 09/05/2006
Open and Switch Case
A few folks on the forums have asked how they can specify other editors to open files in Team...
Date: 08/29/2006
Team Project Junction, what's your function?
I've seen a number of posts in the forums recently asking about Team Projects, particularly backing...
Date: 08/11/2006
More Admin Than Admin (part deux)
As I mentioned last time, we have a tool to help you out if all of the people in your Team...
Date: 06/01/2006
The CAT-5's out of the Bag
I'm sure many of you have read Eric Sink's "Four Questions". If you haven't though, I highly...
Date: 04/05/2006
Recursion: It's what's for dinner
Silly though it may be, have you heard that James Manning posted that Buck Hodges posted about Rob...
Date: 03/16/2006
[N]TFS and Alternate Data Streams
Perhaps you've heard of them. Files in NTFS may have multiple "Alternate Data Streams" (ADS), each...
Date: 03/16/2006
CLR and Present Danger
Jeff Maxton recently pointed out an issue with Team Foundation and the Windows folder "encrypt...
Date: 03/06/2006
Test Team vs. The Matrix: Fight!
For the past few weeks, we've been running our Full Automation Run (FAR) against several dozen...
Date: 01/19/2006
On sheep and goldfish
Here's an old story readjusted for the modern world: A project manager, a developer, and a tester...
Date: 12/09/2005