I am pleased to announce that my guide Upgrading TFS 2010 to TFS 2012 with Migration to a New Hardware just published on CodePlex. https://upgradetfs2010totfs2012.codeplex.com/ {width=”332” hei...
Mark 'In Use' for Environments in Lab Management 2013
We can reserve a Lab environment by marking it as ‘In Use’ to discourage other team members from using it. Remember, this doesn’t prevent access by other team members; it simply sets a flag in the ...
The customizable template must contain exactly one virtual disk marked as 'Contains an operating system'
When creating SCVMM Environment for Lab Management 2013 over SCVMM 2012 R2, you must select at least one VHDD and mark it as ‘Contains an operating system’. This is the error if that option is not ...
SCVMM 2012 R2 Generation 2 not Supported for Lab Management 2013
When working with SCVMM 2012 R2, it has a new Generation of the VM which supports new features. Unfortunately, this type of VM is not supported even by Lab Management 2013.
How to download Visual Studio Update Installer offline
If you can’t find the ISO of the Visual Studio Update you can download the update instead of installing it from the internet, just perform the following steps: Download the exe and put it ...
What and How about Team Foundation Server Update
I just want to highlight that Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server (TFS) installation mechanics are different. The Visual Studio update installs on top of whatever is already installed on the...
Install and configure TFS 2012 Update 3 (TFS 2012.3)
In this post, I will explain a step-by-step installation and configuration for TFS 2012 Update 3 (TFS 2012.3) Download the TFS with Update 3 Download Agents for Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 ...
Renewed as an MVP for Visual Studio ALM
I am really pleased to announce that I have been renewed as a Microsoft MVP for Visual Studio ALM for the next year, actually it's an amazing to be part of such a community and to belong to this w...
TFS 2013 Access Level for Team Web Access features
Using TFS as a client requires a TFS Client Access License (CAL). In older versions of TFS (TFS 2010), there was a built-in group called TFS Work Item Only View (WIOV) that we could use for all peo...
Local System vs. Network Service vs. Local Service and TFS Service Accounts
TFS Service accounts are one of the very important topics when working with TFS installation and configuration. Each service needs to run with an account that might have different permissions. It i...