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I have posted about the “Microsoft Test and Lab Management” (MTLB) first when the Beta 1 was introduced. In this post I will show the changes made since Beta 1, you can read my post here . The menu in Beta 1 was this: In Beta 2 you can only find 2 sections: The Organize section is now part of the Testing Center sub menus. lets take a peek at the sub menus in the Beta 2: If you will compare that to Beta 1 you will see that the same functionality and menus stayed the same but is reorganized in the...
I have started to work on a Quick Guide for the “Microsoft Test And Lab Management” after a lot of users that likes to understand and try the tool. The quick guide is posted in my personal blog here and will be spread on a few posts where the first one is published here . There is also an introduction post here that can give a good idea on what this tool can do. The quick guide will be published in the “Team System Guides” codeplex site here when finished, I will post on that too. Have Fun!!!
I am happy to announce a new Codeplex project that gathers Team System guides both for Team System 2008 and for Team System 2010. You can see the site here . All guides are in word or PDF formats so you can download and print them. Have Fun!!!
There is a great MSDN site that gathers all the information and feedbacks for the Team System 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 version. You can get all the downloads, installations instructions, walkthroughs and more all in this site. you can find the site in the following URL: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx Have Fun!!!
For all my customers that kept asking me when it will finally be here I am glad to say after all this exhausting waiting for it, it is finally here!!! The official announcement was two days ago 18/05/2009, you can read more about the release in Brian Harry’s post here . I can’t wait to start using the cool feature in this release and I am sure I am not alown. Have Fun!!!
I have seen a good list for the new features coming in Jeff Beehler’s Blog , you can read it here . This is not the only resources list that was published but it gives a nice view on the new features in a serious of videos. These videos gives a good summary of the new features that will be released in the beta version of the Team System 2010. Have Fun!!!
The Details of this message are: “Detailed Message: The pending configuration changes were not successfully added to the cube because of the following error: System.Security.Principal.IdentityNotMappedException: Some or all identity references could not be translated. at System.Security.Principal.NTAccount.Translate(IdentityReferenceCollection sourceAccounts, Type targetType, Boolean forceSuccess) at System.Security.Principal.NTAccount.Translate(Type targetType) at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Warehouse...
In the Excel Guide that I have published I mentioned the reporting capabilities of the Team System 2010, you can read about it here . There is a webcast that shows how reports are done, this webcast made by Brian Keller and posted to Channel9, you can read more about channel9 here and you can see the webcast here . In the Webcast Brian shows a few examples of reports from Team System 2008 and how to create custom reports in Team System 2010 using Excel. Have Fun!!!
Many times I have been asked about the new features in Team System 2010. I have recently read a post by Brian Harry giving an overview of the new features in Team System 2010. You can read the post here . Have Fun!!!
I have posted about changing the TFS Source Control Cache Settings in order to boost performance here How can we be sure that the changes are correct and we have better performance now? The TFS is saving statistics so you can monitor the cache performance easily. What can you see? Current cache size Total cache hits Total download requests Total files in cache How can you see it? Step 1: Log in to the application tier and open a browser. Step 2: Surf to - http://localhost:8080/VersionControl/v1.0...
The TFS application tier holds a cache of the source control files so the users can download files from this cache instead of downloading them from the data base. In order to boost performance you can change the size of this cache and how much old files to delete, you can do it in the following way: Step 1: Open the Web.config file located in [Program Files]\Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server\Web Services\VersionControl Step 2: Locate the <appSettings> section. Step 3: Now...
This question is rising every time that customers are not pleased with the performance. They tell me that the performance problem is because of the fact that there TFS is installed on a virtual server. After a deep check we always find that the reason is different, for example they don’t give enough resources to the server (TFS can’t work with 0.5GB of memory). So the answer to the question is yes it can!!! I like to mention here that it depends on the resources allocated to the server, satisfying...
What is Process Template? The Process Template is used to create Team Projects and contain 6 main parts : Classification - Defines a team project's initial iterations and areas and contains the mapping file between the Team System and the MSProject. Groups and Permissions - Defines a team project's initial security groups and their permissions. Work Item Tracking – Contains the Work Item types definitions, initial queries definitions and you can define default work items. Windows SharePoint...
When doing a Check-In action in the TFS Source Control the best practice is to associate the Check-In to one or more Work Items . How do I choose which transactions from my work flow will be included in the Drop Down list of the work items in the check in window? In the following screenshot we can see the screen I am talking about, you can see the State column and the Check-in Action column what we want to do is add more options (Depends on your workflow). In order to do that we will need to add...
The addings that are installed for office with the Team Explorer 2008 are for office 2008 and the MSProject 2008 , so what would you do if you have office or MSProject 2003? Step 1: Install the Team Explorer 2008 Step 2: Install the Team Explorer 2005 , this needs to be installed after the completion of the Team Explorer 2008 so the dlls regarding the office will be of Office 2003 and MSProject 2003. Make sure that the “.NET Programmability Support” Item is installed for all the office components...
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