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I have been setting up some integration tests as part of a release pipeline. I am using TCM.EXE to trigger tests from the command line. Something along the lines TCM.exe run /create /title:"EventTests" /collection:"[http://myserver:8080/tfs](http://myserver:8080/tfs)” /teamproject:myteamproject /testenvironment:"Integration" /builddir:[\\serverDropsBuild\_1.0.226.1975”](//\serverDropsBuild_1.0.226.1975”) /include /planid:26989 /suiteid:27190 /configid:1 I kept getting the error ‘A test run must be created with at least one test case’ Strange thing was my test suite did contains a number of test, and they were marked as active....

I have a few old Visual Studio Online (VSO) accounts (dating back to TFSPreview.com days). We use them to collaborate with third parties, it was long overdue that I tidied them up; as a problem historically has been that all access to VSO has been using a Microsoft Accounts (LiveID, MSA), these are hard to police, especially if users mix personal and business ones. The solution is to link your VSO instance to an Azure Active Directory (AAD)....

Whilst repaving my Lenovo W520 I had some issues with video cards. During the initial setup of Windows the PC hung. I rebooted, re-enabled in the BIOS the problematic video card and I thought all was OK. The installation appeared to pickup where it left off. However, I started to get some very strange problems. My LiveID settings did not sync from my other Windows 8.1 devices I could not change my profile picture I could not change my desktop background I could not change my screen saver And most importantly Windows Update would not run I found a few posts that said all of these problems could be seen when Windows was activated, but that was not the issue for me....

Updated 19th Nov 2014 Every few months I find a PC needs to be re-paved – just too much beta code has accumulated. I reached this point again on my main 4 year old Lenovo W520 recently. Yes it is getting on a bit in computer years but it does the job; the keyboard is far nicer than the W530 or W540’s we have and until an ultrabook is shipped with 16Gb of memory (I need local VMs, too many places I go to don’t allow me to get to VMs on Azure) I am keeping it....

Microsoft are running a free web-based event Connect() on the 12th and 13th of November. Should be well worth a watch to see the planned direction of developer tooling.