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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...
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
How To Add Check In Policy I know this is something that almost every one knows but some people don’t so here it is: To perform this action you need to be Administrators of Team Foundation version control. Open Team Explorer – Right click on your Team Project –> Team Project Settings – > Source Control Choose “Check-in Policy” tab and add the policies you want. Test your Check-in policy by performing check-in in source control. For additional policies download Team Foundation...
How To: Manage Custom Controls In Team System and Web Access Here is couple of question I'm hearing from people about Custom Controls: 1. Why after I add a custom control to my work item I see an error message in the Web Access? 2. Even when I have Web Access Custom Control and Team System Custom Control I can't get them to work together, always one of them shows me an error, Why? | Answers: 1. Custom Controls for Team System and for Web Access are different! How To Write Team System Custom...
TF51655 When Trying To Delete Global List I create a Service that ones a day create a Global List of customers from CRM system and export to TFS. This Global List contains over 3000 items. When I tried to Delete this Global List using Process Editor I get this message: So I tried using Power Tools 2008 Command-Line - Using Tfpt Command Line Tool The Solution: Edit the Global List and remove all items (Leave one item.....) and make sure this Global List have the same name like the Global List You...
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...
New TFS Sidekicks release available Published on: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/08/18/new-tfs-sidekicks-release-available.aspx A few weeks ago, Attrice corporation released a new version of their TFS Sidekicks tools. They fill a similar need as the Power Tools that we release and I generally hear very good things about them. There is some particularly positive buzz about their new Permissions sidekick. Here's a screenshot of it... Download Page
Using Tfpt Command Line Tool I'm doing a lot demonstrations for clients and for each client I create a new Team Project. Create new Team Project in Team System is very slow and long. Today I said Enough! I'll Create Team Project from now on from Command Line! Beside creating New Team Project there is a lot of useful commands like: Update workitem values from a file, Delete GlobalList, Destroy WIT and more.... Team Foundation Server 2008 Power Tool (tfpt.exe) is a command-line tool. To use...