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The TFS 2013 Brian Keller demo VM is available at http://aka.ms/vs13almvm

Whilst in the USA last week I bought a Surface 2 tablet. Upon boot it ran around 20 updates, as you expect, but unfortunately one of these seemed to remove its ability to play MP4 videos, giving a 0xc00d36b4 error whenever you try. A bit of a pain as one of the main reasons I wanted a tablet was for watching training videos and PluralSight on the move. After a fiddling and hunting on the web I found I was not alone, so I added my voice to the thread, and eventually an answer appeared. It seems the Nvidia Audio Enhancements seem to be the problem. I guess they got updated within the first wave of updates. ...

Are you interested in building your own release pipeline using only the tools within TFS 2012 (or 2013)? If so why not have a look at the Microsoft Patterns & Practice publication Building a Release Pipeline with Team Foundation Server 2012 it provides great background and a full work through via its hands-on-lab.

A guest post I wrote has just been published on the UK MSDN blog titled ‘How VPNs can help you use your MSDN Azure benefits with TFS Lab Management’

I have just published a new project to CodePlex http://tfsalertsdsl.codeplex.com/. Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) provides an alerting model where given a certain condition, such as a check-in, work item edit or build completion, an email can be sent to an interest party or a call made to a SOAP based web service. Using this SOAP model it is possible to provide any bespoke operations you wish that are triggered by a change on the TFS server. ...

Whilst testing a WCF web service I got the error The authentication schemes configured on the host (‘IntegratedWindowsAuthentication’) do not allow those configured on the binding ‘BasicHttpBinding’ (‘Anonymous’). Please ensure that the SecurityMode is set to Transport or TransportCredentialOnly. Additionally, this may be resolved by changing the authentication schemes for this application through the IIS management tool, through the ServiceHost.Authentication.AuthenticationSchemes property, in the application configuration file at the element, by updating the ClientCredentialType property on the binding, or by adjusting the AuthenticationScheme property on the HttpTransportBindingElement. Now this sort of made sense as the web services was mean to be secured using Windows Authentication, so the IIS setting was correct, anonymous authentication was off ...

Lab Management has a lot of moving parts, especially if you are using SCVMM based environments. All the parts have to communicate if the system is work. One of the most common problem I have seen are due to DNS issues. A slowly propagating DNS can cause chaos as the test controller will not be able to resolve the name of the dynamically registered lab VMs. The best fix is to sort out your DNS issues, but that is not always possible (some things just take the time they take, especially on large WANs). ...

We have recently gone through an exercise to provide a consistent set of prebuilt configured VMs for use in our TFS Lab Management environments. This is not an insignificant piece of work as this post by Rik Hepworth discusses detailing all the IT pro work he had to do to create them. This is all before we even think about the work required to create deployment TFS builds and the like. ...

In my previous post I thought I had fixed my problems with TF215106 errors “TF215106: Access denied. TYPHOONTFS\TFSService needs Update build information permissions for build definition ClassLibrary1.Main.Manual in team project Scrum to perform the action. For more information, contact the Team Foundation Server administrator.”} Turns out I had not, acutally I not idea why it worked for a while! There could well be an API version issue, but I had to actually also missed I needed to do what the error message said! ...

The upgrade experience for Windows 8 Enterprise is basically a reinstall, as you lose some many desktop apps and settings. So I decided to do a clean install, my PC was in need of a repave anyway. My PC has 3 disks, a bitlockered SSD for the OS, another bitlockered drive used for data and a non bitlockered drive I use for ISOs, downloads etc. Just to be on the safe side I removed the bitlocker encryption on my second drive, then I deleted the contents of my SSD and re-installed. ...