It looks like one of the buzzwords this year is DevOps. But what is it? It is the merge of Developer and Operations, which basically...

If you have to migrate (like me, today) a huge Git repository to Team Foundation Server, it’s very likely that you are going to hit...

After installing the Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 2 it can happen that the Work Item Tracking Synchronization Service suddenly stops working, so that you...

Despite present since the RTM version, the metastates became notorious to the mainstream after the introduction of the Kanban Board. Why? Let’s see… New, Approved, Committed...

With Team Foundation Server 2012 the licensing became way easier, in order to have a clearer path of adoption for the involved features. One big...

Often many people think that as the Team Foundation Server Integration Platform is an open-source project, it has no support.WRONG!It is the only Microsoft supported...

Sometimes it happens the TFS Administrator has to solve problems caused by unexperienced (or untrained) users, and maybe the most common is to undo ‘ghost...

We have seen how to fix the gap between development and operation teams in a quick&dirty way. There is a lot more to do, and...

As we’ve seen, once Operations send to Engineering issues, they are just Team Foundation Server’s Work Items. This specific Work Item Type is tailored on...

I decided to name this series after the classic introductive American class: 101. We are talking about DevOps (with Visual Studio ALM 2012), so DevOps...

As we saw in the last post, the DevOps movement is making so much noise in the IT world and of course Team Foundation Server...

As somebody knows, I am going to relocate in a few weeks in the United Kingdom. It’s a dream I had since I was a...

During the last months a huge movement is gaining more and more importance in the IT world: the DevOps one. What we usually covered until...

I have just been notified that all the ALM Summit content has been delivered You can find the slide decks here, and the videos hosted...

Again, after the announcement at the the ALM Summit, I am covering one of the new features introduced with the release of the CTP of...

We went through a general overview of the platform, a detailed deep dive on the client, it’s now time for the server part of Visual...

At the ALM summit it has been announced that a tag system is now supported on Team Foundation Service.What does that mean? Well, that’s really...

Despite it can sound like a really complex acronym this is the new certification launched today at the ALM Summit, purposely baked for Application Lifecycle...

This is a brief post to answer a simple question. “I have been told Team Foundation Server 2012 supports paths longer than 260 chars. How...

Recently Microsoft released a new open source project, aimed at all these developers who would rather avoid to use Team Foundation Server but they must...

As you know, in one of the latest Team Foundation Service deployments (I recall it, the team works on a three-weeks-long sprint) and soon to...

Great news for this year: I have been awarded for the 4th time in a row (here’s the title ) as a Microsoft MVP for...

This heavy, 1054 pages book is the reference for every developer approaching Visual Studio 2012. If the review would be just one sentence long, this...

If you have a user which doesn’t use Visual Studio (reasons may vary: designers, stakeholders, analysts, etc.) but uses the Windows Explorer Integration brought you...

A subtle new feature in Team Build 2012 is the possibility of batching the gated check-ins workflow, which enables you to “sum up” your check-ins...

This book, wrote by Sam Guckenheimer (Product Owner for the Visual Studio ALM family) and Neno Loje (Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio ALM) is a...

As with the Local Workspaces we can work offline in a easier way than before, there’s another really useful side-effect of this: the so-called Candidate...

Some minutes ago the Visual SourceSafe tool for migration to Team Foundation Server and Team Foundation Service. It is already available inside your Team Foundation...

If you have to start approaching the Application Lifecycle Management, this is going to be your bible. Written by Mickey Gousset (Visual Studio ALM MVP),...

It can happen that you have to migrate from a TFS Express installation (reasons can be various) to a full featured one. It’s pretty easy:...

Today at //Build Microsoft unveiled what a lot of people was waiting for: the RTM of Team Foundation Service. You can reach it at http://tfs.visualstudio.com/,...

As we know, in the Team Foundation Server PowerTools for the 2010 version and built-in in the 2012 version we have a Backup&Restore utility which...

It may happen you have the need of rolling back a previous changeset (due to various reasons). As far as today, you could do it...

During the last months I went back and forth demoing Team Foundation Service, and several questions came up. Despite there’s a FAQ page out there,...

Communication among team members is the main pillar for the modern ALM, no excuses. There are many ways of getting all the team members involved,...

With the new wave of Visual Studio tooling for Project Management, I’ve been asked for a quick way of understanding commitment of the developers as...

As using workgroup machines in Standard Environment is a borderline scenario, there are some issues and stuff to care about, like the careful usage of...

The introduction of the Microsoft Account as an identification method on Windows 8 is great, it enables several scenarios in a seamless way and it...

Up to Visual Studio 2010 the unattended installation was made up of many steps, making a journey into a .ini file… With Visual Studio 2012,...

As I tweeted some weeks ago, the Visual SourceSafe 2005 support expired July 10th, 2012. So it is no more a supported solution from Microsoft.If...

As we’ve seen in the previous post, we can automate the creation of a deployment package to automate deployment of web applications. What we’ve seen...

What’s needed to perform an XCopy Deployment with Team Build? Just that as a MSBuild Argument: /p:DeployOnBuild=true /p:DeployTarget=PipelinePreDeployCopyAllFilesToOneFolder /p:_PackageTempRootDir=\\<server>\folder

A great feature inside Team Build is the capability of creating deployment packages from the server in order to automatically deploy the application to the...

A Baseless Merge is a not-that-known feature of the TFS’ Version Control System. It’s a merge made with two branches of a root with no...

As I previously posted, in this release we have a powerful instrumentation tool for our exceptions: PreEmptive Analytics. Given the required server side configuration, here’s...

For who is still using Visual Studio 2008 and wants to connect to Team Foundation Server 2012 or Team Foundation Service, the GDR patch has...

As I previously talked about, PreEmptive included an instrumentation and analysis tool for Team Foundation Server. After you install it, it’s needed a little bit...

This post is aimed at helping who has never configured the Team Foundation Server and Project Server integration First of all: do not use NT...

In Visual Studio 2010 to run Web Tests or Performance Tests you were editing locally, you had to run them from the Test menu, telling...

April 27th Team Foundation Service got upgraded to a new version. As you know (and if not, I’m going to explain now ), Team Foundation...

As I mentioned before, there’s the possibility of creating Standard Environments using Workgroup-joined machines and not just domain-joined machines. All you need is to use...

What’s new in Visual Studio Team Lab Management 11? Well, IMHO the most important new feature is the Standard Environments capability. As far as today,...

With Visual Studio 11 the whole set of testing features has been trashed out and remodelled upon a completely new shape. If until Visual Studio...

The possibility of doing Exploratory Testing (as I mentioned in my last post) includes some times where you have to use certain tools without being...

As the name itself suggests, Exploratory Testing is made to explore. One of the best scenarios you can use it is in the early phase...

As we saw in the last post, we can get IntelliTrace logs from web applications. But this is possible for Windows Applications, too! Locate the...

Until yesterday, IntelliTrace in production environment was not supported, so the usefulness of it was a bit argued. But now with Visual Studio 11, we...

Code Review is one of the new features in Visual Studio ALM 11 focused on collaboration among team members. Everything starts with a request for...

Continuous Testing means running unit tests after each build in an automated way. In the new Team Explorer, we have this functionality built-in. To enable...

If you remember Visual Studio 2010 () there was a nice feature called Test Impact Analysis. It used to analyse your test suite and provide...