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Tweet Today I came to a customer for consulting and the customer told me that there is no Backups for TFS. So right away I told him this is very important and let’s create a Backup Plan for TFS. How To: Create TFS 2010 Backup Plan Problem So I’ve download TFS 2010 Power Tools, Install, Open TFS Administration Console, Click “Create Backup Plan” and Nothing happens. So I’ve started to investigate and saw some errors in TFS Event Log, of course I saw “Object reference not set to an instance of an object...
Tweet Read the full article from Brian’s Harry Download –> Team Foundation Server 2010 Power Tools Power Tools Come to Eclipse We are completely committed to ensuring that developers outside of Visual Studio have great access to TFS and that includes bringing Power Tools to these developers when appropriate. Today we made a new Power Tool download available as an Eclipse update site. 64-bit MSSCCI Support We also made the one of our most significant updates to the MSSCCI provider for TFS...
Tweet Couple of days ago I wrote about How To Change Test Scribe Template since than I got plenty of emails on that subject asking me to supply more and more information about changing Test Scribe Template. Many people thinks that: “The output generated by Test Scribe is not customizable in this release.” But this is not fully correct, you can change the Test Scribe template but this will require couple of hacks….. But possible I recommend you to read the How To Change Test Scribe Template article...
Code Metrics From The Command Line - Power Tools In my last post I’ve talked about What is Code Metrics in Visual Studio, and how Code Metrics will allow you to monitor you code to find those un-maintainable and complex hotspots “Microsoft just release a command line because many customers are looking for a way to generate code metrics information as part of their build process. In this way, the complexity associated with assemblies coming out of your nightly builds could potentially be tracked and...
How To: Create TFS 2010 Backup Plan In my last post I wrote about Sept 2010 TFS Power Tools Release Available , this post will go though the steps in order to create TFS 2010 Backup plan from the “Team Foundation Server Administration Console”. Open “Team Foundation Server Administration Console” Navigate to TFS 2010 installation folder (“C:\Program Files\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010\Tools”) and run “TfsMgmt.exe”, this will open the Mgmt Console. Click on “Team Foundation Backups” and “Create...
Sept 2010 TFS Power Tools Release Available Brian Harry Just post regarding a new release of TFS Power Tools , this release of Power Tools also contains large number of bug fixes also mentioned in Brian’s Blog . You find the download for the latest version of the Power Tools here: TFS Power Tools Cross Platform Build Extensions MSSCCI Provider (no updates this release) As with the previous release, these require a TFS 2010 client. If you want Power Tools with a previous TFS client, you...
TFS 2010 RC Power Tools are Available! Brain Harry just post that Power Tools for TFS RC are available for download from here: Power Tools MSSCCI Provider Please make sure you uninstall any previous VS 2010 versions of the Power Tools before installing these. They should work side by side with the VS 2008 Power Tools though. Full Post
TFS 2010 Power Tools are Available Brian Harry just post the TFS 2010 Power tools are now available for public use. 1. TFS MSSCCI Provider: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/f959ea32-5ac3-424a-a709-5001a158ebe8 2. TFPT: http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/0e69a28f-020c-488b-80b3-f4c89a20621d View Full Post
Wit-It! 1.4 – New Features If you don’t know what is Wit-It! please read Wit-It! – Outlook Add-in for TFS Work Item Alerts I saw that lots of people are downloading Wit-It! and I get lots of feedbacks. Also I got a place on MSDN forums. It’s time for the next version of Wit-It! I fixed couple of performance problems, change the Design to some thing more friendly. Add couple new features to Wit-It! Download Wit-It! Today Here is the list: New Work Item Convert Email message to Work Item ...
How To: Disable the Team Members Feature If you installed TFS Power Tools 2008 you will see couple of new features. One of the features called – "Team Members" that allows you to collaborate with your team even better. One of the features is integration with instant messaging that allows you to see presence, IM, video, audio, etc from inside Team Explorer. You can read more about the feature here: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/10/01/preview-of-the-next-tfs-power...
How To: Add Custom Controls Into Work Item I had question regarding the post about How To: Write Team System Custom Control . Question: How I can add the custom control anywhere in the Work Item? First download PowerTool 2008 so will be able to work with Process Template Editor . Copy you Custom Control output into - (For Visual Studio 2008) C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Application Data\Microsoft\Team Foundation\Work Item Tracking\Custom Controls\9.0 Copy you Custom Control output into - ...
Skype Collaboration Provider for TFS New project on CodePlex - Team Foundation Server Collaboration Providers The Team Foundation Server 2008 Power Tools enable rich integration with other team members via IM and VoIP chat. Out the box the power tools integrate with Live Communicator and Windown Live Messenger (MSN). This project is for community contributed providers for other systems
Preview of the next TFS Power Tools release For the full article please read Brian Harry’s blog . This is one example for very nice and important feature! :-)
Power Tools 2008 - TFSUsers / TFSManager TFSUsers The TFSUsers tool allows administrators to fix issues with Work Item Tracking that occur when user names are changed in Active Directory. You maybe remember the Validation error when saving Work Items after a user is removed from Active Directory , So now instead of add < ALLOWEXISTINGVALUE /> inside the WorkItem Definition you may want to user TFSUsers to solve this problem. Also you can change Display Name for users. 1: TFSUsers computedelta...
Work Item Web Access If your QA team only need the ability to open new Bugs and doesn't use Team System For Tester abilities you may want to use WIWA . WIWA is a Web UI that allows using some work item tracking features even if the user doesn’t have a Client Access License (CAL). It’s based on TSWA, but provided as a separate download. WIWA simply enables 3 core “file-a-bug” scenarios stated in the TFS 2008 EULA. Without TFS CAL , Work Item Web Access (WIWA) will let you: Create new work items...
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