I had a great time yesterday at the VISUG Conference in Antwerp, thanks to everyone involved in event. The ALM track organiser Pieter and all the speakers, myself, Martin and Neno, were really pleased to see how full our room was all day. There certainly seems to be more interest in ALM than ever before. If you want to find out more on areas of TFS I was talking on i....
Whist testing an upgrade of TFS 2010 to TFS 2012.2 I was getting a number of verification errors in the TFS configuration upgrade wizard. They were all TF400129 based such as TF400129: Verifying that the team project collection has space for new system fields but also mention models and schema. A quick search threw up this thread on the subject, but on checking the DB tables I could see my problem was all together more basic....
I am often asked how well TFS it can be integrated within a company’s larger management processes. This is an especially common question in companies where developing software is not their primary business, it is just a means to enable the business’s core business. A really nice discussion on this question can be found on a recent .Net Rocks about Columbia Sportswear, well worth a listen.
This is a follow up to my older post on a similar subject When composing a new Lab Environment from running VMs the PC you are running MTM on needs to be able to connect to the running VMs. It does this using IP so at the most basic level you need to be able to resolve the name of the VM to an IP address. If your VM is connected to the same LAN as your PC, but not in the same domain the chances are that DNS name resolution will not work....
I did a post a year or so ago about setting up TFS Labs and mentioned command C:Program FilesMicrosoft Team Foundation Server 2010Tools>tfsconfig lab /hostgroup /collectionName:myTpc ?/labenvironmentplacementpolicy:aggressive /edit /Name:“My hosts group” This can be used tell TFS Lab Management to place VMs using any memory that is assigned stopped environments. This allowed a degree of over commitment of resources. As I discovered today this command only works for SCVMM 2010 based system....