Video of MVP at Microsoft Techdays events

Whist at the the UK Techdays I did a video with Rob Miles. You an see the results here, we are near the end. A full video of my session should be available on the Microsoft UK Techdays site soon

April 15, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Useful tool to move Reporting Services reports between servers

When you are moving TFS contents around between servers, as many people will be doing as they implement new 2010 servers and want to make use of Team Project Collections; you often have to move Reporting Services reports. In many cases you find people have lost their customised .RDL files they uploaded in the first place, and don’t want to restore the whole Reporting Services DB. So how to extract an RDL file from a Reporting Services instance and moving it to a new Reporting Services instance?...

April 14, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Speaking at the Typemock Academy in Olso in a couple of weeks

I am really pleased to say I will be speaking at the first Typemock Partner Academy in Olso the week after next. I will be talking about using how we at Black Marble have used Isolator to improve the speed and quality of our SharePoint development.

April 14, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Follow up on my TechDays Lab Management session about the cost.

I have seen a few tweets after my Techdays session on Lab Management that it sounded expensive. It is true that Lab Management is an extra license to purchase over and above Visual Studio. However under the new licensing model for VS you have to remember that as an MSDN subscriber you are already licensed for a TFS CAL and Server and if you have VS2010 Ultimate you are licensed for the Test Professional tools....

April 13, 2010 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Goodbye Team System hello Visual Studio ALM

Now that VS2010 has launched the branding of ‘Team System’ has gone; so I am no longer a MVP (Team System) but a MVP (Visual Studio ALM).

April 13, 2010 · 1 min · Richard Fennell