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Tweet I consider myself a calm person with plenty of tolerance, I believe in productive discussion and love it – Part of my job as a consultant is to talk with Teams and explain them why you should choose a specific product over another, in 99.9% of those meetings there is one guy that don’t like the change (No One Like Changes) and you need in a calm way to explain and show him the benefits of the new tool – Forcing someone to do something is never a good thing. But sometimes there is no wining...
Create OLAP Failed – XML parsing failed at line 1, column 0: A document must contain exactly one root element. I’ve visit one of my customers and saw a strange error in the event log: Errors in the metadata manager. An error occurred when instantiating a metadata object from the file, '\\?\C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.2\OLAP\Data\TfsWarehouse.0.db\Today.886.dim.xml'. Detailed Message: Create OLAP failed Exception Message: XML parsing failed at line 1, column 0: A document must...
Announcing TFS Performance Report Pack Grant Holliday upload TFS Performance Reports that Microsoft use. Quote” We have a responsibility to ensure that the server is performing as expected and to identify any efficiencies that can be made in the server or the tools. To do this, we have created a number of reports that we use ourselves and make available to our own users. “ The Full Article + Download Execution Time Summary Server Status - Source Control Request Queue Server Status - Top Users...
Failed To Create Maintenance Plan For TFS Backup After installing TFS 2008 I want to create maintenance plan using SSMS to create a Backup plan How To: Backing Up a Team Foundation Server database . When creating new maintenance plan I got an error. Then I saw that SQL Databases is upgraded to SP2 but not the Client Tools. So Download SQL Server SP2 and make sure to select the right components. After installing SP2 for the Client Tool I was able to create the maintenance plan for backup TFS Databases...
How To: Change Estimate/Remaining/Complete Field Format To Days Instead Of Hours I receive the following question: How do I change the format for reporting a work: estimate/ remaining/complete - to days instead of hours??? Here is my answer for that question: To download a mapping file Open a Command Prompt window. Open the folder where Visual Studio is installed (for example, drive :\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 9), and in that folder, locate \Common 9.0\IDE. The TFSFieldMapping.exe utility...
Reports Part 1 : Understanding Team System Reports I think everyone knows that Team System can show Reports, but not everyone knows that Team System can show Reports on almost EVERYTHING you do inside Team System. Also many people don’t understand the importance of Reporting and how using Team System Reports can help them improve the ALM process. When I demonstrate to customers the Reports ability in Team System I get two different responses: Customer 1: WOW!!!! Customer 2: Why? Here is some questions...
Exclude File From Code Churn If you want to exclude specific file from the code churn in TFS Reports look in Neno Loje blog. Disadvantages: Comparing binary files in the command line or UI will just result in "Binary files differ" rather than a diff viewer showing the changes. By default, multiple checkouts of binary files are not allowed.
How To: Create TFS Reports Using Excel (PivotTable) I have customers that from time to time need new reports for them self not for the all project, I asked them why you need me to create this king of report? The answer is: I don't know how and it's too complicated... My answer: No it's not! In less then 5 min you will be able to create report like the one below that sync directly from TFS. Let's Start Open Excel 2007 click on Data tab and click on From Analysis Services . Enter TFS...