Monthly Archives: December 2006

New MSSCCI Provider (1.2) available

Well the Christmas presents (well sort of) from Microsoft just keep rolling out with Brian announcing that a new version of the Team Foundation Team MSSCCI Provider is available for download. The listed enhancements in this release include; Enable handling branched … Continue reading

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Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista Beta

I just read the news on Rob’s Blog that the Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista Beta is now available for download. The Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 Update for Windows Vista Beta addresses areas … Continue reading

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Installing Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server (RTM) – Part 2

Well it looks like the error that I received while uninstalling the beta version of the TFS SP1, (previous post) is also preventing me from installing the release version of the service pack “Error 1309.Error reading from file: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual … Continue reading

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Impromptu VSTS presentation in Singapore

Last Friday I attended the Singapore DevCon 2006 event held in the Microsoft Office in Singapore. I wanted to see my good friend and VSTS MVP, Boon Tiong present his session before I flew back home to Brisbane. I had … Continue reading

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TFS Permission Manager 1.5 available

Leon posted on the Microsoft Isreal blog this morning that version 1.5 of TFS Permissions Manager is now available for download. This new version now includes support for group permission management, the lack of which was my main beef with version … Continue reading

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Installing Visual Studio 2005 Service Pack 1 (RTM)

For those of you preparing to install Visual Studio, here are a few things that might make things a little easier for you. Before you begin Download the neccessary files Download the Visual Studio 2005 Service pack 1 installer  Check … Continue reading

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Installing Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server SP1 (RTM)

Prerequisites Download the neccessary files Download the Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Service pack 1 installer Backup your Server Follow Chuck’s advice and make sure you backup you TFS service prior to installing the service pack. You just never … Continue reading

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Installing Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals into Team Suite

With the release of Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals a couple of weeks back, I am finally ready to install the RTM onto my developer machine. For developers with Visual Studio Team Suite, the Database Professionals product is … Continue reading

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VSTS/TFS Service Pack 1 Now Available

I have been in Singapore this week attending the Longhorn Server Touchdown training and now it’s over, I have been catching up on my RSS feeds. What little gem did I spy just a little while ago?   Well from the title … Continue reading

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Usergroup Mania – VSTS rocks in Australia!

Well it looks like VSTS is a hot topic in Australia with the announcement of Australia’s THIRD VSTS User group! The first Australian VSTS user group, the Melbourne VSTS Users Group kicked off on the 29th September 2005 and is … Continue reading

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