Team Foundation Server

Introduction Recently, I added some articles about installing and configuring some new pre-release software that Microsoft released earlier in the year. [ Visual Studio 2013 | Team Foundation Server 2013 ] Now I’m ready to put it all to the test! I know there’s been a lot of build-up, and […]
Previewing the Previews

Recently, Microsoft released a preview version of their next version of their team development suite, known as Team Foundation Server (TFS). Long time readers of Sanders Technology will know that I’ve a long history with TFS, and I’m genuinely a fan of the platform. Team Foundation Server 2013 breaks from […]
Introducing and Installing TFS 2013 Preview

Recently, I had to authenticate to Team Foundation Server using an account with greater permissions to perform some administrative tasks. As you may know, this requires entering alternate credentials when you add the server to the list of TFS servers, or when you need to connect to the server. Once […]
Using different credentials to connect to Team Foundation Server

The series so far: Part 1 – Setting up TFS Azure Part 2 – Configuring Visual Studio to use TFS Azure Part 3 – Registering Team Build controllers for TFS Azure Part 4 – Builds in the Cloud (this article) Introduction Following on from an earlier series of articles on […]
Team Foundation Server in the Cloud (Part 4): Builds in ...

Introduction Following on from the previous article, where I installed the Visual Studio 11 Release Candidate on a Windows 8 Release Candidate, I’m now going to step through the process to set up a complimentary ALM capability – Team Foundation Server 2012 (Release Candidate). As per the previous article, links […]
Team Foundation Server 2012 – Release Candidate (Installation) – Part ...
Today was a big day if you happen to enjoy Release Candidate builds from Microsoft. Not only did we see the RC release of both Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 (and Hyper-V Server), but it also coincided with the release of RC editions of the Visual Studio 11 developer […]
Big Release Candidate Day – Microsoft

Earlier this month some very useful guidance documentation was published on Codeplex. The topic? Build and versioning guidance, from Microsoft’s ALM Rangers group. The guides are broken down into a number of PDF files. In the main documentation archive (which you can download from Codeplex) are a number of files: […]
TFS Branching and Merging Guide v2

Part 1 Setting up TFS Azure Part 2 Configuring Visual Studio to use TFS Azure Part 3 Registering Team Build controllers for TFS Azure Part 4 Builds in the Cloud Introduction Continuing from Part 2, now that we have the essentials set up, we’ll take a look at how to […]
Team Foundation Server in the Cloud (Part 3): Builds, builds, ...

Introduction Recently I had to determine a universal product versioning syntax for our products and services. This was done to ensure a level of consistency between projects and products. Depending on the deployment, currently there has been a wildly different format used between products and services. Given the recent adoption […]
Product Numbering and Branch Management

Part 1 Setting up TFS Azure Part 2 Configuring Visual Studio to use TFS Azure Part 3 Registering Team Build controllers for TFS Azure Part 4 Builds in the Cloud Introduction Continuing on from Part 1, we’re taking an early look at TFS Azure, Microsoft’s first service offering of Team […]
Team Foundation Server in the Cloud (Part 2)

Part 1 – Setting up TFS Azure (this article) Part 2 – Configuring Visual Studio to use TFS Azure Part 3 – Registering Team Build controllers for TFS Azure Part 4 – Builds in the Cloud Introduction At the recent BUILD convention in the US, Microsoft announced a series of […]
Team Foundation Server in the Cloud (Part 1)

Not too long ago I wrote an article about Team Foundation Server licensing. Now that it is 2011, and after some recent access requests for TFS, I’ve decided it is time for an update. Does TFS cover SQL Server Licensing? One instance of Microsoft SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition or […]
Visual Studio 2010 and MSDN Licensing White Paper

Our environment is interesting. For a variety of reasons, the Development, QA, Integration and UAT environments have been partitioned from the Corporate AD forest for a long time. This year we’re attempting to move Development, QA, UAT and Integration into one new AD forest to simplify management of the server […]
TFS Across Active Directory Domain Forests
If you’ve ever wanted to have an installation of Team Foundation Server 2010 use a standalone or existing instance of SharePoint Server (2010) then you’ve likely needed to install Extensions for SharePoint on the MOSS server. If, like me, you encountered the following error whilst trying to configure the extensions […]