Cannot access the ‘site setting’ on a reporting services instance using IE

On site recently I had a problem that I could not access the site settings in reporting services if I used Internet Explorer from an client PC. IE worked fine on the server and other browsers were OK on the client, just not IE. Initially I though it was just rights, but that was not the case Turns out this is down to Kerberos negotiation as discussed in the MSDN article....

July 13, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

TFS build service cannot connect to a TFS 2012 server - seeing EventID 206 MessageQueue in error log

Whilst setting up our new TFS 2012 instance I had a problem getting the build box to connect to the TFS server. When I started the build service (on a dedicated VM configured as a controller and single agent, connected to a TPC on the server on another VM). All appears OK, the controller and agents said they were running and state icons went green About 5 seconds later the state icons go red, but message says the controller and agents are still running, from past experience I know this means it is all dead....

July 12, 2012 · 2 min · Richard Fennell

Re-awarded as a MVP for Visual Studio ALM

I am really happy to say that I have had my Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio ALM Re-awarded, it is a privilege to get to work with such a great group of people as a have met via the MVP programme.

July 1, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

Microsoft Cloud Day slides

My slides and those of other presenters at last weeks Microsoft cloud day have been published

June 26, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell

2012 Editions of TFS books are out

As Brian Harry announced on his blog there are new 2012 editions of the two main TFS books on the way. I have added links to them from my reading list page but as yet you can only pre-order them as the release dates are not available.

June 23, 2012 · 1 min · Richard Fennell