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Speaking at usergroups in Leeds and Southampton

Next week I am speaking at: The West Yorkshire BCS on “Application Lifecycle Management - supporting the software development process from inception to retirement” , Wednesday 20 July 2011, 6.30pm (refreshments available from 5.45pm) at NTI Leeds, Old Broadcasting House, 148 Woodhouse Lane, Leeds, LS2 9EN. and NxtGen Southampton on “TDD & Mocking, a love affair”, Thursday, July 21, 2011 , 7pm, St Andrew’s Hall, Avenue St Andrew’s URC, SOUTHAMPTON, SO17 1XQ...

Workaround to connect to a TFS Lab Environment from outside a TMG firewall

Whist on the road I have had need to access our Lab Management system via our TMG firewall through which we expose our TFS 2010 for remote users (via SSL). When I load Microsoft Tests Manager (MTM) I can connect to the TFS server, as expected, and go into ‘Lab Center’ mode. I can see my project’s environment and can start, stop and deploy them without issue (all communication routed via our TFS server)....

TF30162: Task "BuildTask" from Group "Build" failed – when creating a team project

When trying to create a new Team Project on my test TFS 2010 basic installation I got the error Time: 2011-07-05T11:43:36 Module: Engine Event Description: TF30162: Task “BuildTask” from Group “Build” failed Exception Type: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.PcwException Exception Message: Multiple identities found matching workspace name ‘TYPHOONfbb296e15246421e9fc8d25e9d128512typhoon (VC)’ and owner name ‘BLACKMARBLEfez’. Please specify one of the following workspace specs: TYPHOONfbb296e15246421e9fc8d25e9d128512typhoon (VC);BLACKMARBLEfez TYPHOONfbb296e15246421e9fc8d25e9d128512typhoon (VC);BLACKMARBLEfez Stack Trace: at Microsoft.VisualStudio.TeamFoundation.Build.ProjectComponentCreator.ExecuteInternal(ProjectCreationContext context, XmlNode taskXml, Boolean validationOnly)...

First Stable Release of Community TFS 2010 Build Extensions

The first stable release of the Community TFS Build Extensions has been shipped. It contains around 100 activities. It is hoped that this project will be be shipping on a 2 to 3 month cycle in the future. So have a look, this project provides many ways to extend your build process. And if you have ideas for more activities why not contribute?

I’ve been re-awarded as an ALM MVP for 2011

I am really pleased to say I have been re-awarded as a Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio ALM for 2011, this is my fourth year. I am looking forwarded to another year of working with such a great crowd of people.