I was at a client today, working on a TFS 2008 cube corruption problem (I hate the super common code churn crap it always throws, requiring weird InstanceInfo and SetupWarehouse voodoo) when the subject of automating BizTalk 2009 projects came up.
The company heavily uses BizTalk, so they threw up a staging server with BizTalk [...]

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A client was asking me this today so I decided to make a quick note and send a link
In TFS 2010 when trying to make Sequential builds (i.e. for one you have several interdependent solutions in your automation strategy) in the DefaultTemplate XAML file you have to change the tag to . [...]

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When maintaining a TFS environment where WI’s become crucial in terms of development artifacts, you may notice an issue with removed AD accounts causing a problem where WI’s are not privy to updates because the account has been removed from Active Directory. This becomes a huge issue because updates to the WI are no longer [...]

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When users are using Team Explorer and viewing the group membership for a particular project (Team Project Settings -> Group Membership) it’s pretty easy because explicit users and groups are listed. However, this becomes a problem when you want to view all the users of that particular group. This is very, very evident when the [...]

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TFS Proxy Servers are essential for my current client’s TFSenvironment because they allow the disparate SharePoint development environment to experience improved network performance by caching copies of VC files. Since this particular environment is geo-distributed, this is a necessary architectural requirement in order to maintain appropriate developer efficiency.
Recently, a strange issue was occurring with [...]

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