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I recently tried to get the free HP ALM Synchronizer to link to Microsoft’s TF Service, the summary is it does not work. However, it took me a while to realise this. The HP ALM Synchronizer was designed for TFS 2008/2010 so the first issue you hit is that TF Services is today basically TFS 2013 (and is a moving goal post as it is updated so often). This means when you try to configure the TFS connection in HP ALM Synchronizer it fails because it cannot see any TFS client it supports....

Just done the update of my Windows 8 Media Center to 8.1. First issue was I looked in the store and could not see the update. I was looking for an ‘update’ in the top right not a huge application entry in the middle of the screen. Strange how you can miss the obvious The download took about 30 minutes which worked in background whilst I was using Media Center. It then did a reboot, the main install of files took about 30 minutes too....

I have been changing the mocking framework used on a project I am planning to open source. Previously it had been using Typemock to mock out items in the TFS API. This had been working well but used features of the toolset that are only available on the licensed product (not the free version). As I don’t like to publish tests people cannot run I thought it best to swap to Microsoft Fakes as there is a better chance any user will have a version of Visual Studio that provides this toolset....

Thanks to everyone who came to my DDDNorth session ‘Automated Build Is Not The End Of The Story’, the links to the tools I discussed are as follows Visual Studio Lab Management MSDN http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd997438.aspx ALM Rangers best practice guidance http://vsarlabman.codeplex.com/ Building Environments SC-VMM http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg610610.aspx ALM Rangers VM Factory http://vsarvmfactory.codeplex.com/ Chef http://www.opscode.com/chef/ Puppet http://puppetlabs.com/ Deployment ALM Rangers Test Infrastructure Guidance http://tig.codeplex.com/ ALM Rangers DevOps Workbench Express Edition http://vsardevops.codeplex.com/releases/view/111294 Octopus Deploy http://octopusdeploy.com/...

Whilst upgrading a TFS 2010 server to 2012 I had a problem that a build was showing in the queue as active after the upgrade. This build was queued in January, 10 months ago, so should have finished a long long time ago. This build had the effect that it blocked any newly queued builds, but the old build did not appear to be running on any agent – a zombie build....