Recently I came across this little gem of a registry change – allowing a custom logon screen background, using OEM registry keys. Essentially, you simply have to set a specific key, then create a folder under the Windows directory, and then insert a JPG picture of your choosing. It’s pretty […]
Monthly archives: September 2011
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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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Introduction It is important to understand what a network load balanced cluster is and what it does. The cluster is made up of member hosts, and each host is bound to a public IP address (or addresses) which resolve to the cluster itself. Each host in the cluster must have […]
Recently I conducted a mini-audit of some of our less used servers and virtual machines, mainly hunting for some candidates to participate in load testing (hosts for Test Agents). Upon one server I was *amazed* to find a virtual server which had been running for 1,862 days! We’re talking over […]