Confused over the workflow to get an environment setup in TFS Lab Management?

It can be a bit confusing to get work out which tools to use at which stages required to get a lab environment up and running in TFS. Here is a basic workflow showing what you need to do in System Center Virtual Machine Manager prior to starting in MTM Lab Center Note: if you want to copy environments between TFS Team project Collections have a look at this post

January 17, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

TF260073 incompatible architecture error when trying to deploy an environment in Lab Manager

I got a TF260073, incompatible architecture error when trying to deploy a new virtual lab environment using a newly created VM and template. I found the fix in a forum post. The issue was that when I had build the VMs, I had installed the Lab Management agents using a VMprep DVD ISO and mounted it using ‘share image instead of copying it’ option. This as the name implies means the ISO is mount from a share not copied to the server running the VM, this save time and disk resources....

January 17, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Getting a ‘File Download’ dialog when trying to view TFS build report in Eclipse 3.7 with TEE

When using TEE in Eclipse 3.7 on Ubuntu 11.10 there is a problem trying to view a TFS build report. If you click on the report in the Build Explorer you would expect a new tab to open and the report be shown. This is what you see in Eclipse on Windows and on older versions of Eclipse on Linux. However on Ubuntu 11.10 with Eclipse 3.7 you get a File Download dialog....

January 13, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Changed my phone to a Nokia

I swapped to a Nokia Lumia 800 yesterday from my LG E900, all very quick an easy after my experience last month. My first impressions the on/off/volume buttons were better placed for a left hander on the LG, but I expect I will get used to that. the poor reception in my house was not the LGs fault – just a bad reception area the Nokia does seem faster

January 10, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Problems finding XULRunner when running TEE11 CTP1 on Ubuntu and connecting to TFS Azure – a solution

I recently got round to taking a look at Team Explorer Everywhere 11 CTP1. This is the version of TEE that allows you to access the Azure hosted preview of the next version of TFS using Eclipse as a client. I decided to start with a clean OS so Downloaded the Ubuntu 32bit ISO Used this ISO to create a test VM on my copy of VirtualBox (currently using VirtualBox as this allows me to create 64bit and 32bit guest VMs on my Windows 7 laptop without have to reboot to my dual boot Windows 2008 partition to access Hyper-V) Selected default installation options for Ubuntu When completed used the Ubuntu Software Centre tool to install Eclipse 3....

January 8, 2012 · 3 min · Richard Fennell