DDD10 registration open

DDD10 registration opens today, and probably closes about 10 minutes later (server overloads allowing) from past experience. If you can’t make the date, or the don’t fancy the trip down south to TVP remember DDDNorth in October at Bradford University has many of the same speakers and is located in a far more convenient Yorkshire location.

July 30, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Problems I had to address when setting up TFS 2012 Lab Environments with existing Hyper-V VMs

Whilst moving all our older test Hyper-V VMs into a new TFS 2012 Lab Management instance I have had to address a few problems. I already posted about the main one of cross domain communications. This post aims to list the other workaround I have used. MTM can’t communicate with the VMs When setting up an environment that includes existing VMs it is vital that the PC running MTM |(Lab Center) can communicate with all the VMs involved....

July 23, 2012 · 3 min · Richard Fennell

Getting TFS 2012 Agents to communicate cross domain

I don’t know about your systems but historically we have had VMs running in test domains that are connected to our corporate LAN. Thus allowing our staff and external testers to access them from their development PCs or through our firewall after providing suitable test domain credentials. These test setups are great candidates for the new TFS Lab Management 2012 feature Standard environments. It does not matter if they are hosted as physical devices, or on Hyper-V or VMware....

July 20, 2012 · 6 min · Richard Fennell

Where did my custom Word templates go in 2013?

I installed Office 2013 customer preview yesterday and all seemed good. Today I needed to create a new document using one of our company standard templates. I opened Word, went to the new document section and was presented with a list of great looking templates, but not my custom ones. The page suggested I used search to find more templates, it did find more templates from the Internet, but did not find my locally stored ones....

July 18, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

_atomic_fetch_sub_4 error running VS2012RC after Office 2013 Customer Preview is installed

When I installed Office 2013 customer preview all seemed good, loads of new metro look Office features. However when I tried to load my previously working Visual Studio 2012RC I got the error “The procedure entry point _atomic_fetch_sub_4 could not be located in the dynamic link library devenv.exe”. This is a known issues with the C++ runtime and a patch was release last week, install this and all should be OK

July 17, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell