My guest post on the UK MSDN blog on ‘Using MSDN Azure benefits with TFS Lab Management’
A guest post I wrote has just been published on the UK MSDN blog titled ‘How VPNs can help you use your MSDN Azure benefits with TFS Lab Management’
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Announcing a CodePlex project that provides an IronPython DSL that can be used to define the handling of TFS Alerts
I have just published a new project to CodePlex http://tfsalertsdsl.codeplex.com/. Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) provides an alerting model where given a certain condition, such as a check-in, work item edit or build completion, an email can be sent to an interest party or a call made to a SOAP based web service. Using this SOAP model it is possible to provide any bespoke operations you wish that are triggered by a change on the TFS server....
Fixing a WCF authentication schemes configured on the host ('IntegratedWindowsAuthentication') do not allow those configured on the binding 'BasicHttpBinding' ('Anonymous') error
Whilst testing a WCF web service I got the error The authentication schemes configured on the host (‘IntegratedWindowsAuthentication’) do not allow those configured on the binding ‘BasicHttpBinding’ (‘Anonymous’). Please ensure that the SecurityMode is set to Transport or TransportCredentialOnly. Additionally, this may be resolved by changing the authentication schemes for this application through the IIS management tool, through the ServiceHost.Authentication.AuthenticationSchemes property, in the application configuration file at the element, by updating the ClientCredentialType property on the binding, or by adjusting the AuthenticationScheme property on the HttpTransportBindingElement....
When your TFS Lab test agents can’t start check the DNS
Lab Management has a lot of moving parts, especially if you are using SCVMM based environments. All the parts have to communicate if the system is work. One of the most common problem I have seen are due to DNS issues. A slowly propagating DNS can cause chaos as the test controller will not be able to resolve the name of the dynamically registered lab VMs. The best fix is to sort out your DNS issues, but that is not always possible (some things just take the time they take, especially on large WANs)....
Building VMs for use in TFS Lab Management environments
We have recently gone through an exercise to provide a consistent set of prebuilt configured VMs for use in our TFS Lab Management environments. This is not an insignificant piece of work as this post by Rik Hepworth discusses detailing all the IT pro work he had to do to create them. This is all before we even think about the work required to create deployment TFS builds and the like....