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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...
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...
Error While Trying To Create OLAP Cube One of my customers failed to get up to date Reports from TFS. Looking in one of the reports I saw that the last time the warehouse was update is Two Month Ago! I tried to process the cube manually and this got nothing, so I checked the event log and I saw couple of errors related to the warehouse. I tried to Rebuild the cube using SetupWarehouse.exe and get another error. An unexpected error occurred: Some or all identity references could not be translated...
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...
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...