Get access to Microsoft’s next generation in application lifecycle management, agile project management and software development collaboration services based on the next version of Team Foundation Server running on the Windows Azure platform called: Team Foundation Service Preview  

Every attendee of the Australian ALM conference will receive one of the most sought after previews in the Software Industry -an invitation code for access to Team Foundation Service Preview. For more information about the conference please see www.australianalm.com.au

There’s still a few spots available if you’d like to register for any of these courses.

• TFS 2010 for Testers – 2 days starting 11th July
• TFS 2010 for Administrators – 3 days starting 13th July
• Implementing TFS 2010 Solutions – 5 days starting 18th July
• TFS 2010 for Project Managers – 2 days starting 1st August

You can register from the register link at http://www.alm-training.com/quicklearn

The feedback from the attendees was overwhelmingly very positive and here are just a few of the comments provided by the students.

This was an excellent class. I would highly recommend this class to anyone from the beginner to an advanced user that wishes to expand their knowledge on TFS.

Excellent instructor with great knowledge on the software.

Great Course! This is a great course. It covers all the modules of VSTS2010 extensively.

Great Job! Anthony did a great job.

Another metric I was very pleased to see was 100% of attendees indicated they would recommend this course to their colleagues.

If you’re in the US and your interested in attending this new course, we have scheduled the course to run again on the week commencing July 18th, 2011 in Redmond, WA. You can attend the course in person or online via our remote classroom. (More info)

For people interested in this in Australia, stay tuned as I am planning on publishing the course details and scheduling the class around July/August. Register your interest.

DATE: 24th May 2011

TIME: 5:30pm till 6:30pm

TOPIC: Behaviour Driven Development and Team Foundation Server

PRESENTER: Rob Maher

You can find out more about the upcoming meeting at http://www.dot.net.nz/Lists/Events%20Calendar/DispForm.aspx?ID=418

Don’t forget if you live or work on Auckland’s North Shore, there is also the North Shore .NET User group that Paul Salmon runs as well.

We will walk you through an end to end migration and ensure you’re well equipped to handle to task back in your workplace. Simply bring along your own laptop with Visual SourceSafe 2005 and TFS 2010 Basic installed. We’ll provide you with a VSS Database and then walk you through a complete migration during the workshop. (Don’t worry if you don’t want to bring your laptop along, you can witness every step of the migration on the big screen.)

Topics include:

• The benefits of migrating to TFS
• A demonstration of the key features of TFS Pre-migration planning
• Hands-on walk through of the migration process
• Verifying our migration and troubleshooting common issues

Dates and venues:

• Melbourne:  11th April choose 1:00pm-3:00pm or 4:00pm-6:00pm
• Sydney: 12th April choose 9:00am-11:00am or 3:00pm-5:00pm
• Brisbane: 13th April choose 9:00am-11:00am or 3:00pm-5:00pm
• Online via LiveMeeting: 21st April 12:00pm-2:00pm

Find out more about the venue and RSVP at http://www.microsoft.com/australia/visualstudio/vss-workshop

Richard has documented his experiences in a 6-part series on the Enhance ALM Blog to assist anyone else considering integrating these tools. You can read his blogs posts using the following links.

• Integrating Dynamics Ax with TFS 2010–Part 1 (Overview)
• Integrating Dynamics Ax with TFS 2010–Part 2 (Preparing TFS for Dynamics Ax)
• Integrating Dynamics Ax with TFS 2010–Part 3 (Preparing the DEV Machine)
• Integrating Dynamics Ax with TFS 2010–Part 4 (Installing a Dynamics Ax Instance)
• Integrating Dynamics Ax with TFS 2010–Part 5 (Installing a Dynamics Ax AOS Instance)
• Integrating Dynamics Ax with TFS 2010–Part 6 (Integrating with TFs 2010)

The following courses are being offered during February and March 2011.

Fundamentals of Team Development with Visual Studio

• March 3rd & 4th in Redmond, WA and Online /Remote  more info…

Managing Team Projects with Visual Studio

• February 14th & 15th in Redmond, WA and Online /Remote more info…
• March 7th & 8th in Oslo, Norway more info…

Testing Applications with Microsoft Test Manager

• February 16th & 17th in Redmond, WA and Online /Remote more info…
• March 9th & 10th in Oslo, Norway more info…

The topic for my presentation in all three locations is as follows:

Part One – What’s new on the Visual Studio ALM scene?

In the first part of the talk I will run through an overview of new and updated things from the past couple of months that relate to Visual Studio ALM. As a few examples, he will walk you through the following;

1. Visual Studio Feature Pack 2
2. Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 Beta
3. TFS Admin Tool 2.1
4. TeamCompanion 4 (Beta)

Part Two – Continuous Delivery can be a reality

Continuous Delivery is the next logical step after Continuous Integration for modern software teams. In this session, I will walk through how you can automate the build, deploy and test of your applications using Visual Studio 2010.

GIVEAWAY – Free ticket to the New Zealand Visual Studio ALM Conference

One lucky attendee will also win a free ticket to the inaugural New Zealand Visual Studio ALM Conference in Wellington on the 6^th & 7^th April 2011. Sponsored by Microsoft, this conference will feature both international and local presenters in two tracks over two days. If your team builds software, this is a conference not to be missed. Keep your eye on the conference website at  www.nzalm.co.nz for more information.

Here are the details for the three user group talks. If you are going to come along, please make sure you RSVP to let the organiser know for catering purposes.

AUCKLAND – North Shore .NET User group

• Date: Tuesday 1st February 2011
• Time: 5:45 Pizza for a 6:15 presentation
• Venue: Quadrangle B; Seminar Room 3(QB3), Massey University, Albany
• RVSP: Please email nsug.net@live.com if you are coming along

WELLINGTON– Team System User group

• Date: Thursday 3rd February 2011
• Time: 6:00pm
• Venue: To be confirmed
• RVSP:  Please let me know if you are attending so I can make sure we order enough Pizza and Drink. Click on this link to RSVP  then send the email created with the subject line unaltered; If your plans change after you have RSVP’d and you are unable to attend  Click on this Link then send the email created with the subject line unaltered;

CHRISTCHURCH – Christchurch .NET User group

• Date: Friday 4th February 2011
• Time: 12:30pm (NOTE: Lunch presentation)
• Venue: Canterbury Innovation Incubator – Powerhouse, 200 Armagh St, Christchurch
• RVSP: Please email simon.m.fox@gmail.com if you are coming along

If you’re in New Zealand and able to come along, I look forward to seeing you there

2011 is shaping up to be a busy year with a number of initiatives demanding my attention already including:

• New Zealand Visual Studio ALM Conference
• Australian ALM Conference
• New training partnerships to deliver my courses in overseas markets

Congratulations to all other MVP’s awarded on the 1st January 2011 and have a Happy New Year.

NOTE: The focus of this blog post is about how you can choose to install SharePoint Foundation 2010 instead of Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 for use with TFS 2010. It is not a post about best practises for installing or configuring TFS 2010.

Step 1: Install Operating System and SQL Server

1. Install and configure server with your Operating System (Eg. Windows Server 2008 R2) and SQL Server (Eg. SQL Server 2008 R2). Make sure you follow the detailed instructions in the Team Foundation Installation Guide for Visual Studio 2010

Step 2: Download SharePoint Foundation 2010

1. You can download SharePoint Foundation 2010 from the Microsoft Download site at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=49c79a8a-4612-4e7d-a0b4-3bb429b46595&displaylang=en

Step 3: Install SharePoint Foundation 2010

1. Start the SharePoint Foundation installation by double-clicking the SharePointFoundation.exe file
2. On the SharePoint Foundation 2010 splash screen, click the “Install software prerequisites” link in the Install section.
3. On the Welcome screen, click Next
4. Accept the licensing agreement and click Next
5. Once the prerequisites have been installed, click Finish.
6. On the SharePoint Foundation 2010 splash screen, click the “Install SharePoint Foundation” link in the Install section.
7. Accept the terms of the agreement and click Continue
8. When prompted to “Choose the installation you want”, make sure you click the “Server Farm” button.
9. Select Complete for the Server Type and click Install Now.
10. On the Run Configuration Wizard page, leave the checkbox checked and click Close.

Step 4: Configure SharePoint Foundation 2010

1. On the Welcome page of the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard, click Next
2. You will see the following dialog letting you know some of the services may be started or reset during the configuration. Click Yes.

   

3. Click “Create a new server farm” and click Next
4. Provide a Passphrase and click Next
5. Specify 17012 as the SharePoint Central Administration website port and click Next
6. Click Next on the “Completing the SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard” page.
7. Once the configuration is complete you should click “Finish” on the Configuration Successful screen.
8. You should now see the SharePoint Central Administration site appear in a browser on your server. Click Cancel, you do NOT want to run the Server Farm Configuration wizard.
9. Close your browser.

Step 5: Create a Web Application

Now that you have installed SharePoint Foundation 2010 and completed the initial configuration, you must create a Web Application.

1. Open the SharePoint Central Administration site. (Start Menu | All Programs | Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products | SharePoint 2010 Central Administration)
2. Under the Application Management heading, click Manage web applications.
   

   

3. In the toolbar, click the New button
4. In the “Create New Web Application” dialog, enter the following settings:
   

   Authentication	Classic Mode Authentication
   IIS Web Site	use Existing IIS web site (Default Web Site)
   Port	80
   Host header	{Blank}
   Path	C:\inetpub\wwwroot
   Security Configuration	Authentication Provider: NTLM Allow Anonymous: No Use Secure Socket Layer (SSL): No
   Public URL	http://your-server-name:80/
   Application pool	Create new application Pool Application Pool name: SharePoint –80 Security Account:domain\wss_service account
   Database name	Server name: Your DB servername Database Name: WSS_Content Database Authentication: Windows Authentication
   Failover Server	{Blank}
   Search Server	{Blank}
   Service Application Connections	Accept {Default}
   Customer Experience Improvement Program	No (up to you)

   Click on OK

5. If you are prompted to change the site from Kerberos to NTLM, click OK
6. Once the site has been created, click OK

Step 6: Configure security

1. Open the SharePoint Central Administration site. (Start Menu | All Programs | Microsoft SharePoint 2010 Products | SharePoint 2010 Central Administration)
2. Under the Security heading, click Manage the farm administrators group.
3. Click Add Users from the New drop down menu
4. Enter the TFS Service account (eg domain\tfs_service) into the dialog and click OK

Once you have completed these steps you can run the TFS 2010 setup.exe program and as part of the configuration phase, your SharePoint configuration will be verified.

Enjoy using SharePoint Foundation 2010 with your shiny new TFS 2010 server.