Re-awarded Microsoft MVP for the 7th Year

I am really happy to say that I have had my MVP for Visual Studio (ALM) re-awarded, so am an MVP for the 7th time. It is a privilege to get to work with such a great group of people as a have met via the MVP programme.

July 3, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

How long is my TFS 2010 to 2013 upgrade going to take – Part 2

Back in January I did a post How long is my TFS 2010 to 2013 upgrade going to take? I have now done some more work with one of the clients and have more data. Specially the initial trial was 2010 > 2013 RTM on a single tier test VM; we have now done a test upgrade from 2010 > 2013.2 on the same VM and also one to a production quality dual tier system....

June 27, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Submissions open for DDDNorth 2014

DDD North is coming to the University of Leeds on Saturday 18 October. It is now open for Session submission

June 25, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

List of TFS Widgets

The ALM Rangers are again producing a list of useful tools and widgets for TFS. It can be found at aka.ms/widgets and should be updated regularly

June 23, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Cloning tfs repository with git-tf gives a "a server path must be absolute"

I am currently involved in moving some TFS TFVC hosted source to a TFS Git repository. The first step was to clone the source for a team project from TFS using the command git tf clone --deep [http://tfsserver01:8080/tfs/defaultcollection](http://tfsserver01:8080/tfs/defaultcollection) ‘$My Project’ localrepo1 and it worked fine. However the next project I tried to move had no space in the source path git tf clone --deep [http://tfsserver01:8080/tfs/defaultcollection](http://tfsserver01:8080/tfs/defaultcollection) ‘$MyProject’ localrepo2 This gave the error...

June 9, 2014 · 1 min · Richard Fennell