Upgrading from TFS2005 to TFS 2008 'Orcas' Beta 2

Today I decided to bite the bullet and upgrade our ’live’ TFS installation to 2008 Beta2, now there is support from Microsoft. The only reason I have delayed this long has been we have been involved in the delivery of a big project and I did not want to take the TFS server down for any reason. Our TFS installation is dual server, the data tier (DT) running on our central SQL2005 64bit server and the application tier (AT) on a virtual server as a VPC....

September 28, 2007 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

GUITester and CodePlex

Due to popular demand, well one person, I have uploaded my GUITester system I presented about at DDD3 to CodePlex. It can be found at http://www.codeplex.com/guitester. If you are interested in moving the project forward let me know.

September 24, 2007 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Disaster Recovery in TFS

If you are having to support a TFS install there have been some excellent posts on disaster recovery on Sudhir Hasbe’s blog, he is a PM on the TFS team. Well worth a read.

September 20, 2007 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Speaking at NxtGenUG Birmingham

I will be speaking at NxtGen usergroup Birmingham branch on the 17th December about, you guessed it TFS. Look forward to seeing you there.

September 20, 2007 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Last nights Bristol .NET Developers Network usergroup meeting.

As I sit on the train traveling north to our Black Marble hosted MSDN event I must write to say how much I enjoyed presenting at last night’s .NET Developers Network usergroup meeting; thanks to Guy Smith Ferrier and the whole group for getting it organized. I think I managed to cover all the questions raised about TFS during the meeting. I have been through my slides to add notes to clarify any points raised....

September 20, 2007 · 1 min · Richard Fennell