As you’ve seen in my post previously , there are some great ways to enhance reporting in TFS 2010 through the use of Windows SharePoint Services (WSS). This is very important for obvious reasons such as communicating with organization leaders on the status...

If you are an agile team, you are going to love TFS 2010 and especially it’s crucial dashboard capabilities that help you better plan and track your time. Software estimates are an art more than a science and it is one of the keys to growth for an individual...

We recently had a need to add some additional service accounts to run services as we had a single service account that was getting used in a bit too many places. During this exercise, we decided to change the service account that our TFS 2010 services...

You often do your job of “planning” for your virtualization farm well in advance of when you can realistically foresee the amount of storage you will need. If you like me, you often take the amount of known needed space and you triple it – shh, don’t...

I recently was asked for a couple of my old IIS presentations that seemed to have been lost on TechNet & IIS.NET . Due to this, I’ve still got a lot of this content so I thought that I would start sharing it via this blog. Where appropriate, I will...

On several occasions, I’ve gotten asked to please provide access to some of the content I did previously as a member of the IIS team. A common ask, still to this day, are for the IIS 6.0 Migration Tool webcast I did way back when. The IIS 6.0 Migration...

For many environments, the Virtual Machine Manager 2008 R2’s self-service portal is very useful. It provides day-to-day users of your virtualization farm the ability to access their virtual machines and do key actions like start, stop, create checkpoint...

As many of you already know, Microsoft is preparing for next week’s Management Summit 2010 in Las Vegas . This is a great event, not only for his content but also its incredible knowledge transfer capabilities. As a team member in the greater Management...

With the release of Visual Studio 2010 RTM, we embarked on upgrading from RC1 to RTM. This was a rather seamless process with no “unexpected” hoops to push through though I did recently encounter an issue with some of the customized linked reports I built...