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TFS: How to Customize Work Item Types
Team Foundation Server has allowed you to modify your Work Item Type Definitions since the first version of TFS. (Side note: this is not the case with the Team Foundation Service, but the team hopes to...
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TFS, Load Balancers, Idle Timeout settings and TCP Keep-Alives
Since TFS 2010, it has been possible to have multiple Application Tier servers configured in a load-balanced configuration. If you use something like a F5 BIG-IP LTM device, then the default Idle...
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TFS2012: New tools for TFS Administrators
This is a brand new feature in TFS 2012 that hasn’t really been documented or talked about yet. If you’re a TFS administrator and you browse to this address on your server, you will see a new web-based...
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New book: Professional Team Foundation Server 2012
I’m very pleased to announce that our new book Professional Team Foundation Server 2012 is now available! It’s an update to the 2010 edition that reflects all the great new features and changes...
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Five years at Microsoft and a new job
Recently, I completed 5 years of service at Microsoft. The company makes a big deal of anniversaries that fall on the 5-year milestones with increasingly larger "optical crystal" monuments. As part of...
View ArticleWhat does a well maintained Team Foundation Server look like?
After spending some time out in the field looking at customer’s TFS environments and more recently looking at some of Microsoft’s internal on-premises TFS deployments, I realised that some environments...
View ArticleTFS Administration Tool 2.3 (2013) Released
As I did after the last major TFS release, the TFS Administration Tool has been updated to depend upon the TFS 2013 Object Model. You no-longer need Team Explorer 2012 installed to use the tool. It can...
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TFS: Enable Team Project Portal script
If you don’t have SharePoint configured at the time that you upgrade your Team Foundation Server or when you attach a new TPC, then one of the things that you might be left with is this: The Team...
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The Physical Internet
Recently I read the book called Tubes: A Journey to the Center of the Internet by Andrew Blum. If you’ve ever wondered how your computer connects to other computers around the world, this book is a...
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TFS2012: IntelliSense for customizing Work Item Types using XML
Team Foundation Server allows you to modify the Work Item Type definitions. You can use a graphical interface like the Process Editor included in the Team Foundation Server Power Tool, or you can edit...
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