VS ALM: Tips for using Brian Keller’s VS ALM virtual machine

VS ALM: Tips for using Brian Keller's VS ALM virtual machine

I’m using more and more Brian Keller’s virtual machine for my presentations and demos. This virtual machine can be downloaded on Brian’s blog:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/briankel/archive/2011/09/16/visual-studio-11-application-lifecycle-management-virtual-machine-and-hands-on-labs-demo-scripts.aspx

This VM already contains all tools installed and configured and also has some projects with data. To ensure it’s use over time some scripts are run at each startup of the system and can cause some errors when you want, like me, to do your own demos.

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TFS: Installation using DNS aliases – Part 3 : Team Foundation Server

TFS: Installation using DNS aliases – Part 3 : Team Foundation Server

This post is part of a series on how to install and configure Team Foundation Server using DNS aliases for it’s components:


In this post we’ll see how to configure Team Foundation Server to use the DNS aliases for the database and SharePoint. Here’s the aliases i’ll be using for this tutorial:

  • SQL Server : sql01.demo.local
  • Analysis Services : analysis01.demo.local
  • Reporting Services : reporting01.demo.local
  • SharePoint : sharepoint01.demo.local
  • Team Foundation Server (AT) : tfs01.demo.local

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TFS: Installation using DNS aliases – Part 2 : SharePoint

TFS: Installation using DNS aliases – Part 2 : SharePoint

This post is part of a series on how to install and configure Team Foundation Server using DNS aliases for it’s components:


In this post we’ll see how to configure SharePoint to use the DNS aliases for the database and SharePoint. Here’s the aliases i’ll be using for this tutorial:

  • SQL Server : sql01.demo.local
  • SharePoint : sharepoint01.demo.local

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TFS: Installation using DNS aliases – Part 1 : Data Tiers

TFS: Installation using DNS aliases - Part 1 : Data Tiers

In my last series of post I’ve looked at how you can rename server which runs TFS components and reconfigure them so that the platform can be operational again. In this new series i’ll explain how to realize an installation using DNS aliases so that future server changes will be simplified by simply changing the alias :)

Even you start with a single server installation, using DNS aliases for all components will simplify your task if you need to make some evolution later. Here’s the list of components on which we will have an alias:

  • SQL Server
  • Analysis Services
  • Reporting Services
  • SharePoint
  • Team Foundation Server (Application Tiers)

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TFS 2012: Add a custom section in a build summary

TFS 2012: Add a custom section in a build summary

With the previous versions of TFS you could customized the buil summary from TeamBuild by developing Visual Studio add-in and deploy is on every computer. This was not simple and it was simplified in Visual Studio 2012 / Team Foundation Server 2012 :)

Everything is done with the new standard TeamBuild activity WriteCustomSummaryInformation:

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VS 2012 / TFS 2012 : The Release Candidate is available

VS 2012 / TFS 2012 : The Release Candidate is available

visual_studio_2012

Since last night Microsoft has release the Release Candidate of it’s new Visual Studio products. Microsoft has also given the product final name, we will now talk about Visual Studio 2012 and Team Foundation Server 2012 (Who would have though :)).

If you’re an MSDN subscriber you can connect to your account and download the ISOs:

If not, you can go to the Visual Studio website and download the web installer:

I’ll come back in a later post on what was added since beta. The most visible even without installing it is the new logo :)

You will be happy to know that Microsoft has listen to the user feedback and reintroduced some color in the UI :)

Carpe Diem.