Mapping your Windows Special Folders to OneDrive for Business – Ultimate Backup
Do you want to save a file it should be instantly replicated to all your PC’s, and the cloud. What about file history and an infinite recycle bin! That will survive a nuclear strike, or a cup of coffee!
Moving OneDrive for Business files to a different drive
I recent ran into a problem where my OneDrive files were taking up too much space on my main drive and preventing Windows 10 updates on the Insider Program. This works for both OneDrive consumer application and the new OnDrive for Business beta application. Many moons ago I had partitioned my drive so that I […]
Branch Policies for TFVC
Have you looked enviously at the Branch Policy feature for Git in TFS or VSTS? Are you stuck on TFVC? How would you implement Branch Policies on TFVC? Find out…
Access denied for orchestration plan on Build
If you get a “Access denied: Project Collection Build Service does not have write permissions for orchestration plan” message then you may have run into a TFS 2015 RTM bug.
How to rename a Team Project in TFS 2015
TAG:Ever since TFS 2005 shipped we have been asking ourselves why, oh, why, can’t we rename a Team Project. As each version of the product shipped we hoped beyond hope that this would change and we would get rid of those ugly code names, or that old corporate identity that no longer exists.
Install TFS 2015 today
Microsoft just announced the availability of TFS 2015 and with Go-Live you can install TFS 2015 in production today and be fully supported. I just completed first production successful upgrade for a customer from TFS 2013 to TFS 2015, they are acting like kids at Christmas with all of the new features.
Upgrading to TFS 2015 in production – DONE
With the availability of a fully supported version of TFS 2015 I will be upgrading my customers production TFS server to TFS 2015 so that they can get all of the goodies.
Create a Build vNext build definition
I am going to show how to create a Build.vNext build definition on VSO. Microsoft recently announced the creation of a brand new build system for TFS and VSO at the Connect event last year. This new build system will eventually replace the current one and be much more modular and friendly. Happily I am in the early adopter program and the product team just made an early alfa of the service available for that program and I have been giving it a spin.
Join a machine to your azure hosted domain controller
Now that you have finished moving your Domain Controller Azure VM to a Virtual Network] you need to be able to join a machine to your azure hosted domain controller.
Create log entries in Release Management
I have been working through my demos for NDC London next week. And I found it almost impossible to create log entries in Release Management where I wanted.