Finally I did it I’m a Microsoft Certified Trainer and on Monday I will deliver my first course: MOC50430 related to TFS 2010 administration!
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SP1 for TFS 2010 has been released together with SP1 for VS 2010 and it contains a lot of bug fixes. For more details: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2182621
We started using Windows Server AppFabric for a Silverlight/RIA application and had a problem during configuration on one of our server. The problem was that when we opened .xamlx file to check service health we received the following error:
“Cannot find connection string for connection name ‘ApplicationServerWorkflowInstanceStoreConnectionString’”
Solution: After deep investigation we discovered that the issue was due to the fact that AppPool used to host the service was configured with Enable 32-bit applications flag set to true, therefore it was reading a different machine config file (for 32-bit apps), that is not changed by the AppFabric configuration wizard (Bug? By design? I’ll open a Connect ticket). Setting flag to false solved the issue!
Hope this helps
When you configure TFS to use a new SCVMM server with another name (for example in case of failure of previous or move to another location), you have to remove the old server on Project Collections previously configured.
If you try to do it from the GUI administration of TFS, when you delete Library or HostGroup and press OK you will receive the error below:
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To solve this issue you have to delete references from command line with following command:
TfsConfig.exe lab /collectionname:DefaultCollection /Delete
Version 2.1 of Team Foundation Server Administration Tool has been released :http://tfsadmin.codeplex.com/
Now it uses TFS 2010 object model, therefore no more need of Team Explorer 2008 + SP1 + Forward Compatibility Update!!!
To be downloaded immediately
If you try to publish externally TFS through https using a fqdn, you may run into problems related to the Web Access:
TF31002: Unable to connect to this Team Foundation Server: https://serverxyz/tfs. Team Foundation Server Url:https://serverxyz/tfs. Possible reasons for failure include: – The name, port number, or protocol for the Team Foundation Server is incorrect. – The Team Foundation Server is offline. – The password has expired or is incorrect. Technical information (for administrator): The request failed with HTTP status 404: Not Found.
This problem can be easily solved modifying web.config in TFS Web Access in order to make it use fqdn instead of server name (default).
- Go to C:\Program Files\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010\Application Tier\Web Access\Web\
- Open web.config
- Change
<tfServers>
<!– <add name=”http://serverxyz:8080” /> –>
</tfServers> - in
<tfServers>
<add name=”https://externaltfsname.domain.com/tfs” />
</tfServers>
Note: remember to add /tfs, because in the sample web.config it’s not present, but it’s needed, otherwise it does not work.
Finally beta of this highly requested integration is out! You can find more information direclty on Brian Harry’s blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2010/12/07/portfolio-management-tfs-lt-gt-project-server-integration-in-beta.aspx
I was really excited by the release of a backup/restore tool for TFS in the last Power Tools release. But after serious usage I have to admit that it has many flaws in it as already mentine directly by Brian Harry in its post http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2010/09/29/known-issues-with-the-backup-restore-power-tool.aspx.
The showstopper for us has been #5: You receive the error “Invalid value specified for AFTER parameter.” when restoring the transactional backups.
The solution mentioned in the post is to set the dateformat in sql to year/months/days format by executing this command: set dateformat ymd
But this did not work.
The real solution has been to simply change regional settings for the logged on user to English American and it worked perfectly
Hope this helps
NDepend is getting better and better after each release. The new reporting is really fast, powerful, beautiful to see and ease to use. Keep up the outstanding work you’re doing!
Integration between AS400 and external web services …
Mapping of different text files in input and output …
usage of web services …
Integration with Sharepoint 2010
I think it’s time to try Biztalk 2010 Beta 
