Martin Hinshelwood (MrHinsh)

Using Corporate ID’s with Visual Studio 11 Team Foundation Service

MrHinsh — Tue, 21 Feb 2012 03:14:55 +0000

It has been noted by a few that there is currently no way to corporately control Live ID’s and their use with Visual Studio 11 Team Foundation Service. These folks are only partially right as there is a work around, which I use myself. I have had a custom Live ID for the last 10 years and for the last few I have used the Live Custom Domain service to provide a little consistency and to make sure that I do not get any… erroneous users entering the fray.

I even have Google Apps setup on the same domain that I use for Live Custom Domain’s…. I just prefer Gmail…. but I digress. The goal here is to be able to manage and maintain all of the Live ID’s on my domain (mycompany.com) so that I can use those Live ID’s to authenticate users.

Figure: Adding Live ID’s for a custom domain

Go ahead and try to sign up for [youname]@hinshelwood.com on http://passport.com ! I’ll wait!

Figure: No Windows Live ID for you on my domain sir!

You will find that you can’t and in fact only I as an admin for a domain specifically setup on Live can. You need to wander off to http://domains.live.com/ and log in there with an administrator account.

Figure: Its mine… all mine!

You can even do this in retrospect if you “own” the domain you own all of the accounts created on it, the current owner just does not know it yet. This is not like Google that pushed the pre-created accounts off back onto its original @gmail.com domain, it sooks up all of existing accounts like a vacuum.

Figure: Start with picking your domain

Setting up the custom Live domain is easy and quick. Just click “Add a Domain” and enter a domain name. You still need to prove that you OWN that domain, but that is in essence all of the configuration that you need to provide on the Live side.

Figure: Proving that you own the domain with a TXT DNS reference

Once you have added the records required by Live Custom Domains/Admin Center you can then setup accounts to use with any live enabled services, but specifically Visual Studio 11 Team Foundation Service!

Figure: You only get 500 users to start with, but you can get more for free

Once you have you users setup they can then be added to Team Foundation Service and authenticate correctly. There is no reason as well that you can’t set this up on mass as there is a reasonable API that would allow you to integrate this with your domain.

Figure: API integration for LDAP or Active Directory

For me it is easy as hinshelwood.com is a family domain and I only have a few accounts to administer. And really there is no administering as once created, they just exists and the user themselves can change passwords and owns the content.

Figure: My custom Live ID’s added to Visual Studio 11 Team Foundation Service

With only a few clicks you can now add your corporate emails to Visual Studio 11 Team Foundation Service and give users Live credentials. Is this a good idea… well, not if your users already have a Live ID.

It is very frustrating to have to log into more than one Live ID as it requires much strife with logging out. But if you have users that don’t have live ID’s or have rudely named or cryptic live ID’s then it can be a solution.

Simples…

-Do you want to move to Visual Studio 11 Team Foundation Service NOW? Microsoft is providing a Go-Live licence (that means that it is supported in production) and you can use it today! For help moving forward contact info@nwcadence.com …

Are you doing Scrum? Find out with a Scrum Health Check!

MrHinsh — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:36:23 +0000

I posted before about how you know that you are doing Scrum, or not, but how do you! This is something that has been banded about both in the Scrum.org community and within Northwest Cadence for a while and we have come to the conclusion that we need to check!

There are many reasons for a team to not do something they need:

We can’t do that here, it would not work
We don’t do that coz Scrum “says” not to by omission

Well, I am proud to announce that we put our heads together and came up with a 6 hour “Scrum Health Check”.

Figure: Not in-depth, but an indicator

To get the ball rolling we are offering our first 10 Health Checks in March at 40% off. Although 6 hours is not enough to investigate you entire Scrum implementation (we will also do that ) it is enough to do a quick check to make sure that:

You are on the right road!
Travelling in the right direction!
You are using the right sort of gas!

We will identify a bunch of “Opportunities” for improvement and highlight where you would be best to spend your effort. If you come back for more we will also check your progress and be able to better predict how close you are to your goals.

Introduction to Visual Studio 11

MrHinsh — Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:47:19 +0000

Over on the Northwest Cadence blog we are doing a big push on Visual Studio 11 (dev11) content. I and my colleagues will be delivering content on Visual Studio 11, Visual Studio 11 Team Foundation Server & Visual Studio Team Foundation Service (AKA TFS Preview).

I have been concentrating on the hosted (azure) version of TFS and my first blog post has just gone up on http://blog.nwcadence.com that includes both screenshots, opinions and video demos of TFS preview in action.

Figure: Lots of awesome video demos

Some of the highlights are:

Live ID login
Web UI that works on more than IE
Dates on Iterations
Built in support for Team’s
Project & Team profiles with images and identity
Default areas and Iterations for teams
Support for configuring Alerts for others and teams
The ability to see effective permissions
Options to see where those effective permissions came from

I only have one post today, but I have more tomorrow:

And this just the beginning…

Follow http://blog.nwcadence.com for more posts…

There will be plenty more this month and after the 2012 MVP Global Summit in a couple of weeks…

Scrum-damentals Webcast on 17th February 2012

MrHinsh — Thu, 16 Feb 2012 22:56:44 +0000

We often speak about the basics of scrum and rarely get into the problems and I wanted a session that represented the “next steps” after deciding that this Scrum thing was a good idea. I will, hopefully, be hitting this session at those that already understand Scrum, but are looking for a little implementation knowledge and guidance before they get stuck in.

~~UPDATE: [Register for Scrum-damentals on 17th February 2012]~~

~~UPDATE: [Join Scrum-damentals Live at 8:00 am UTC-8 (that's like in less than 10 minutes]~~

UPDATE: I have added both a link to the PDF and the recording below. The sound is a little tinny as the room I was in was a echo box, but hey…you can’t have everything.

Download: Training – [Coffee] – Scrum-damentals 2012.pdf

Webcast: The Scrum-damentals is just beyond the basics

As this is an open session it will still be busy (they always are) and there will be only a little room for questions. But I do want to try to spend more time on the complexities so most of my presentation and discussion is on the challenges and strategies of playing the game that is Scrum:

What are the basics?
What are the challenges?
What are the strategies?

While I will try to cover many aspects of individual problems that are raised, there is usually a myriad of them so feel free to comment below with anything that does not get answered tomorrow.

Scrum is the most adopted and recognized agile methodology framework. However, there are still challenges to Scrum adoption. This Event will dive into several Scrum adoption pitfalls and how an organization can avoid them. In particular, we will highlight some of the proven practices that have worked for diverse sets of teams. We will also leave time for questions and encourage attendees to bring your most challenging problems.
-E~~xtract from Scrum-damentals on 17th February 2012~~

Make sure that you sign up as I am looking forward to this one.

TF200035 Sync error for identity with TFS 2010

MrHinsh — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 22:24:19 +0000

I recently ran into an odd problem at a customer where the local computer accounts of a computer joined to a domain started showing the SID periodically. For those not in the know, this is BAD.

WARNING: I did not find a solution to my problem, but this should server as a documentation of what I tried, what did not work, and possible resolutions that were unachievable in the time frame. In fact, all of this could be nothing to do with the problem at all… just saying…

The Problem

I first notices that even when I added “Domain Users” to a security group in TFS my “Assigned To” list was empty of all users except those specifically added. It looks like when I name a user my local credentials are used and it is successful, but when I add a group it fails.

Figure: Holy service accounts, batman

So I checked the event log and found an error in the TFS Job Service:

Log Name:      Application
Source:        TFS Services
Date:          2/3/2012 10:01:27 AM
Event ID:      3071
Task Category: None
Level:         Warning
Keywords:      Classic
User:          N/A
Computer:      TFS01.company.com
Description:
TF53010: The following error has occurred in a Team Foundation component or extension:
Date (UTC): 2/3/2012 6:01:27 PM
Machine: TFS01
Application Domain: TfsJobAgent.exe
Assembly: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Server, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a; v2.0.50727
Service Host:
Process Details:
  Process Name: TFSJobAgent
  Process Id: 2128
  Thread Id: 4028
  Account name: company\tfs_service

Detailed Message: TF200035: One or more errors occurred when Team Foundation Server attempted to synchronize the following identity: Domain Admins. Number of errors that occurred: 1.
++++++++++++++++++++++
Sync error for identity: Domain Admins
The server does not support the requested critical extension.

   at System.DirectoryServices.SearchResultCollection.ResultsEnumerator.MoveNext()
   at System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher.FindOne()
   at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Server.WindowsProvider.GetMembersDirect(Boolean getProperties, DirectoryEntry groupEntry, String groupDomainName, Dictionary`2 members, IIdentitySyncHelper syncHelper, SyncErrors syncErrors, TeamFoundationRequestContext requestContext)
   at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Server.WindowsProvider.SyncADIdentity(TeamFoundationIdentity identity, Boolean includeMembers, TeamFoundationRequestContext requestContext, SyncErrors syncErrors)
   at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Server.WindowsProvider.SyncIdentity(IdentityDescriptor descriptor, Boolean includeMembership, String providerInfo, TeamFoundationRequestContext requestContext, SyncErrors syncErrors)
   at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Server.IdentitySynchronizer.SyncOneGroupMembership(TeamFoundationRequestContext requestContext, TeamFoundationIdentity groupToSync, IdentityComponent myComponent)

Event Xml:

  
    
    3071
    3
    0
    0x80000000000000
    
    16464
    Application
    TFS01.company.com
    
  
  
    TF53010: The following error has occurred in a Team Foundation component or extension:
Date (UTC): 2/3/2012 6:01:27 PM
Machine: TFS01
Application Domain: TfsJobAgent.exe
Assembly: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Server, Version=10.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a; v2.0.50727
Service Host:
Process Details:
  Process Name: TFSJobAgent
  Process Id: 2128
  Thread Id: 4028
  Account name: company\tfs_service

Detailed Message: TF200035: One or more errors occurred when Team Foundation Server attempted to synchronize the following identity: Domain Admins. Number of errors that occurred: 1.
++++++++++++++++++++++
Sync error for identity: Domain Admins
The server does not support the requested critical extension.

   at System.DirectoryServices.SearchResultCollection.ResultsEnumerator.MoveNext()
   at System.DirectoryServices.DirectorySearcher.FindOne()
   at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Server.WindowsProvider.GetMembersDirect(Boolean getProperties, DirectoryEntry groupEntry, String groupDomainName, Dictionary`2 members, IIdentitySyncHelper syncHelper, SyncErrors syncErrors, TeamFoundationRequestContext requestContext)
   at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Server.WindowsProvider.SyncADIdentity(TeamFoundationIdentity identity, Boolean includeMembers, TeamFoundationRequestContext requestContext, SyncErrors syncErrors)
   at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Server.WindowsProvider.SyncIdentity(IdentityDescriptor descriptor, Boolean includeMembership, String providerInfo, TeamFoundationRequestContext requestContext, SyncErrors syncErrors)
   at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Framework.Server.IdentitySynchronizer.SyncOneGroupMembership(TeamFoundationRequestContext requestContext, TeamFoundationIdentity groupToSync, IdentityComponent myComponent)

Figure: TF200035: One or more errors occurred when Team Foundation Server attempted to synchronize the following identity

Lets take a look….

The Investigation

So I went spelunking and found some interesting things. First was that SQL, running under Network Service was not able to contact the domain properly to query information.

Log Name:      Security
Source:        Microsoft-Windows-Security-Auditing
Date:          2/3/2012 9:55:38 AM
Event ID:      4625
Task Category: Logon
Level:         Information
Keywords:      Audit Failure
User:          N/A
Computer:      TFS01.companydomain.com
Description:
An account failed to log on.

Subject:
    Security ID:        S-1-5-20
    Account Name:        TFS01$
    Account Domain:        COMPANYDOMAIN
    Logon ID:        0x3e4

Logon Type:            3

Account For Which Logon Failed:
    Security ID:        S-1-0-0
    Account Name:
    Account Domain:        

Failure Information:
    Failure Reason:        An Error occured during Logon.
    Status:            0xc000040a
    Sub Status:        0x0

Process Information:
    Caller Process ID:    0x51c
    Caller Process Name:    C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\Binn\sqlservr.exe

Network Information:
    Workstation Name:    TFS01
    Source Network Address:    -
    Source Port:        -

Detailed Authentication Information:
    Logon Process:        Authz
    Authentication Package:    Kerberos
    Transited Services:    -
    Package Name (NTLM only):    -
    Key Length:        0

This event is generated when a logon request fails. It is generated on the computer where access was attempted.

The Subject fields indicate the account on the local system which requested the logon. This is most commonly a service such as the Server service, or a local process such as Winlogon.exe or Services.exe.

The Logon Type field indicates the kind of logon that was requested. The most common types are 2 (interactive) and 3 (network).

The Process Information fields indicate which account and process on the system requested the logon.

The Network Information fields indicate where a remote logon request originated. Workstation name is not always available and may be left blank in some cases.

The authentication information fields provide detailed information about this specific logon request.
    - Transited services indicate which intermediate services have participated in this logon request.
    - Package name indicates which sub-protocol was used among the NTLM protocols.
    - Key length indicates the length of the generated session key. This will be 0 if no session key was requested.
Event Xml:

  
    
    4625
    0
    0
    12544
    0
    0x8010000000000000
    
    590839
    
    
    Security
    TFS01.companydomain.com
    
  
  
    S-1-5-20
    TFS01$
    COMPANYDOMAIN
    0x3e4
    S-1-0-0
    
    
    
    
    0xc000040a
    %%2304
    0x0
    3
    Authz   
    Kerberos
    TFS01
    -
    -
    0
    0x51c
    C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL10_50.MSSQLSERVER\MSSQL\Binn\sqlservr.exe
    -
    -

Figure: This implies that the Machine account does not have permission to AD

Now, when you join a computer to a domain it actually gets an account on the domain and a password just like a user. The account is always the computer name appended with a $ which looks like “tfs01$”. The password for that account is set every 30 days by request of the client, and there can rarely be any problems.

Figure: Domain Controller error in Event Log

But in this case it looks for it looks as if the machine account has become out of sync, so lets try resetting the computer account.

C:\Users\tfs_service>netdom reset "tfs01" /domain:companydomain
The secure channel from TFS01 to the domain COMPANYDOMAIN has
been reset.  The connection is with the
machine \\DC01.COMPANYDOMAIN.COM.

The command completed successfully.

Figure: Using netdom to reset the secure channel

This should update AD with a new password set by the client, so lets test it out:

C:\Users\tfs_service>Nltest /SC_Verify:companydomain  /SERVER:tfs01
Flags: b0 HAS_IP  HAS_TIMESERV
Trusted DC Name \\dc01.companydomain.com
Trusted DC Connection Status Status = 0 0x0 NERR_Success
Trust Verification Status = 0 0x0 NERR_Success

The command completed successfully

Figure: Using nltest to check the secure channel

After resetting the account I rebooted the server and checked again for the error messages, and dam but they were still there. My next approach was to reset the computer account in Active Directory Users and Computers. After you do this you will need to re-join the computer to the domain as you will get an error on login that states “The trust relationship between this workstation and the primary domain failed” for which it it worth investigating. In this case however it is a problem of our own making with the reset, and can be fixed by following:

Join computer to any workgroup
Reboot
Login as local Administrator account
Join computer to domain
Reboot
Login as domain account

Even this is not you done. When you do a remove, re-join certain services do not like it and you will have to do the following:

Fix Reporting Services – Re-add the “key” to reporting services through the configuration console as it got confused
Fix SharePoint – Re-run the SharePoint Configuration without changing anything as it thinks that the machine name has changed

While this should solve most problems with authentication, it did not solve this one. You may also see a Event ID 5722 is logged on your domain controller which should also be fixed, but is a result of the things that I have tried so far.

So where next?

Well, one thing to make sure of is that the TFS 2010 service account has permission to read from the domain, but it unusual to have this problem as this is the default for accounts in AD. If you have a more locked down configuration it may be something you need to look at.

One of my colleagues (Rennie) thought that if the Active Directory Domain Services have not been maintained properly (this is a very small company with no real AD skills in-house) then they may have lost one or more of their domain roles. Specifically the PDC Emulation role.

Figure: It looks like the PDC Emulation role is OK

This was definitely worth a check, and while it was OK, I did notice something that confused and then shocked me. You now those moments when you find out something that just does not compute, and you just stare at it!

This is a Windows 2000 Domain Controller!

Now that I know that a whole host more potential issues rear their ugly heads.

So, now to check that Windows 2000 Service Pack 4 is installed but who knows which hotfix level if any, and what about bugs that were only fixed in later versions of the OS!

Pha! (throws up hands in disgust) Is Windows 2000 domains even supported in TFS?

Team Foundation Server is supported in the following Active Directory modes and functional levels:

Windows 2000 Active Directory in native mode.

Windows Server 2003 Active Directory in Windows 2000 native mode.

Windows Server 2003 Active Directory in Windows Server 2003 functional level.

Windows Server 2003 R2 in Windows Server 2003 R2 Active Directory forest functional level.

-Trusts and Forests Considerations for Team Foundation Server, MSDN

What do you know, it is supported (somewhat)

Windows 2000 domains are only supported in Native mode and will not work in mixed mode (does anyone still have Windows NT4 in prodution?) so lets take a look.

Figure: Will I am a monkeys uncle, it is!

While this may be true, I still hold some reservation for the notion that a Domain upgrade may be necessary! To be honest, if it is a miss configuration of the domain somewhere in the mists of time, then a domain replacement may be a better option and creating a brand new “Windows 2008 R2 Domain” would have at least he benefit of modern defaults.

While on the Domain Controller I also noticed Event ID 1789 in the event log that got me looking into another article on Error 1789 when you use the LookupAccountName function on a computer that is running Windows Server 2008 R2 that while technically is included in the last service pack was not working of me. I could not even apply the Hotfix as it game me the “this update is not valid for your computer” message that is no help. There are manual steps for Local Groups not resolving domain group name which stopped that error from being listed, which is one more step closer to a stable working system.

Figure: These manual steps are needed on old domains

After all of those steps and spelunking I only have one error message left. The one that started it all… the TF200035… and I can’t seam to get it to talk to Active Directory.

One thing you may want to try is using TfsSecurity.exe to check wither the accounts are in sync. This can be done easily and there are two things I want to check. First the TFS_Service account:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010\Tools>TfsSecurity /server
:http://tfs01:8080/tfs /imx companydomain\tfs_service
TFSSecurity - Team Foundation Server Security Tool
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
The target Team Foundation Server is http://tfs01:8080/tfs.
Resolving identity "companydomain\tfs_service"...

SID: S-1-5-21-448539723-789336058-1957994488-1766

DN: CN=TFS_Service,OU=Resource,DC=companydomain,DC=com

Identity type: Windows user
   Logon name: COMPANYDOMAIN\tfs_service
 Display name: TFS_Service

Member of 18 group(s):
e [A] [NwcSandbox]\Project Collection Valid Users
a [A] [CUSTOMER1]\Project Administrators
a [A] [CUSTOMER1-0-2-1]\Project Administrators
s [A] [NwcSandbox]\Project Collection Service Accounts
e [A] [COMPANY]\Project Collection Valid Users
  [A] [TEAM FOUNDATION]\SharePoint Web Application Services
s [A] [TEAM FOUNDATION]\Team Foundation Service Accounts
e [A] [DefaultCollection]\Project Collection Valid Users
a [A] [TEAM FOUNDATION]\Team Foundation Administrators
s [A] [DefaultCollection]\Project Collection Service Accounts
e [A] [TEAM FOUNDATION]\Team Foundation Valid Users
a [A] [DefaultCollection]\Project Collection Administrators
a [A] [COMPANY]\Project Collection Administrators
a [A] [TfsAdmin]\Project Administrators
s [A] [COMPANY]\Project Collection Service Accounts
a [A] [CUSTOMER2]\Project Administrators
  [G] BUILTIN\Administrators
a [A] [NwcSandbox]\Project Collection Administrators

Done.

Figure: TfsSecurity /server :http://tfs01:8080/tfs /imx companydomain\tfs_service

And second is the machine account:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010\Tools>TfsSecurity /server
:http://tfs01:8080/tfs /imx compnaydomain\tfs01$
TFSSecurity - Team Foundation Server Security Tool
Copyright (c) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.
The target Team Foundation Server is http://tfs01:8080/tfs.
Resolving identity "companydomain\tfs01$"...

SID: S-1-5-21-448539723-789336058-1957994488-1761

DN: CN=TFS01,CN=Computers,DC=companydomain,DC=com

Identity type: Windows user
   Logon name: COMPANYDOMAIN\TFS01$
 Display name: TFS01$

Member of 12 group(s):
e [A] [NwcSandbox]\Project Collection Valid Users
s [A] [NwcSandbox]\Project Collection Service Accounts
e [A] [COMPANY]\Project Collection Valid Users
s [A] [TEAM FOUNDATION]\Team Foundation Service Accounts
e [A] [DefaultCollection]\Project Collection Valid Users
a [A] [TEAM FOUNDATION]\Team Foundation Administrators
s [A] [DefaultCollection]\Project Collection Service Accounts
e [A] [TEAM FOUNDATION]\Team Foundation Valid Users
a [A] [DefaultCollection]\Project Collection Administrators
a [A] [COMPANY]\Project Collection Administrators
s [A] [COMPANY]\Project Collection Service Accounts
a [A] [NwcSandbox]\Project Collection Administrators

Done.

Figure: TfsSecurity /server :http://tfs01:8080/tfs /imx compnaydomain\tfs01$

Dag-namit, but I was hoping for some sort of help here! Everything looks just fine except for not being able ot query AD. This is looking more and more like a… “someone ticked a box 7 years ago in AD and no one remembers where or why problem”.

For those that have encountered them before, there are almost impossible to debug. This is why small companies tend to use the out-of-the-box config and bug companies buy auditing software.

The very last thing that I can check is that the accounts that have been added to TFS are in deed syncing, even if the groups are not:

Figure: making sure the identities in TFS are up to date

Well, that was my last option and I have no further insights. I am sure that I will need to return to this in the future, but for now I have implemented a workaround for the customer. they can use the system, but without AD groups.

While this sucks…sometimes an internal network configuration beats you…. Humph….

The Work Around

As I have no real solution for this problem that I chased around I have to come up with a workaround that will provide the customer with at least the ability to use TFS. So I created the following local groups at the Server level:

Company Developers
Company Management
Company Project Managers
Company Project Admins

I added them with permission onto the individual team projects and added user accounts directly into these TFS Groups. This lets us secure some work item types, states and have users listed in the drop downs.

Symptom treated….

Solving the problem looks to be something that the customer is unwilling ot pay me to do, but I left them with some advice:

Try an upgrade to Windows Sever 2008 R2 domain controllers
If the problem still exists then create a new Windows Server 2008 R2 domain and move everyone accross

In saying that this may not even be the problem!

Additional Useful Links:

Have fun….

Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Reporting & Process

MrHinsh — Thu, 02 Feb 2012 17:00:03 +0000

The Process Template governs nearly all aspects of how the team interacts with Visual Studio and TFS (e.g., the structure and flow of work items). Whether a team has a well-established development process or needs to define one, proper template selection and practice are critical.

Reports and dashboards (targeted to the selected team process) provide essential transparency and empower teams to identify and address opportunities for continuous process improvement.

Goals

Inspect and adapt process with reports
Customize process template to support team practice

Demos

Create custom report using Excel
Customize the Agile process template to support more granular defect reporting

Recording

Screencast: Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Reporting & Process

Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Architecture

MrHinsh — Wed, 01 Feb 2012 19:10:00 +0000

How Visual Studio helps teams explore, understand, maintain, and uphold their project’s architecture. Introduction to some basic architecture & design concepts and common trouble spots for teams.

Goals

Visualize and investigate architecture with new VS diagrams
Establish and enforce team standards

Demos

Architecture Explorer
Architecture verification

Recording

Screencast: Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Introduction

Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Microsoft Test Manager

MrHinsh — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:57:00 +0000

Microsoft Test Manager (MTM), AKA Test Professional, is a new testing system that team can use to create manual and Automation test quickly. The real advantage and strength of MTM is the integration with TFS and Visual Studio 2010 and how it can leverage the ALM tools and practices. In the demo, we show:

Explain the architecture of MTM
Setup a Manual test run
Show how to configure the environment, build and other conditions for a test
How MTM is completely integrated into TFS and VS 2010
How we can gather real-time test data that we can provide back to teams or person

Goals

To explain how Test Professional works and how it can it provide great value to Tester, Developers and other teams
To show the Test Professional is integrate with the TFS and VS 2010

Demos

A 30 min plus demo on how to create a manual test, run the test on a site, find a bug, create a bug and assign it back to a dev. Show how some auto feature for manual testing. showing how to capture test data easily and quickly.

Recording

Screencast: Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Microsoft Test Manager

If you want a custom set of sessions as part of Microsoft’s ALM Catalyst program you can request them through this Microsoft site.

Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Code Management and Build

MrHinsh — Tue, 31 Jan 2012 03:34:00 +0000

Branching Merging and Build are two parts of the overall software development cycle. In the Branching and Merging session, we cover industries standard approaches to branching and merging, the pros and Cons of the standard approaches, and how each strategy might fit your company needs. In the Build section we cover how to setup a build to help teams deliver quality software. We also cover how the build and branching & merging (or Code Lines) are all integrated within Visual Studio 2010. We also cover the new features and tools that Visual Studio has to offer.

WARNING: This video stops at 21 minutes There was a problem with the encoding of the original and I can’t fix it. You can however get this session live below.

Above are a couple of replacement sessions.

This post is part of a series of Visual Studio ALM webcasts that were delivered through 2010 and 2011 as part of an introduction to Visual Studio ALM. See An index to all Visual Studio 2010 Overview webcasts for a full list of webcasts. If you want a custom set of webcasts just for your company so that you can ask the hard questions you can as part of Microsoft’s ALM Catalyst..

Goals

To provide a good understanding of the different types of Branching and Merge strategies
To provide a good understanding of how the build configuration works within Visual Studio 2010 and how the new features can benefit the Development, Test, and other Teams

Demo

Walk through a merge in Team Foundation Server. An overview of the Visualization tool that is new in 2010. Show how the source control is integrated with the ALM mythology and practice.
Walk through on how to create a build and the new configurations. How the build is integrate with the source control an WorkItems

Recording

Screencast: Visual Studio 2010 Overview – Code Management & Build

Visual Studio 2010 Overview – IntelliTrace and Test Impact Analysis

MrHinsh — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 18:21:55 +0000

Intellitrace was built in response to the #1 and #2 demands from TFS 2008 customers: help us find bugs faster so we can fix them faster. As a configurable “flight data recorder” for all aspects of debug and test, it provides advanced and integrated logging so devs can locate and reproduce the bug exactly the way it occurred. Especially in Agile environments, regression testing needs can quickly spiral beyond available resources. Automated testing helps, but a large automated test suite can also impede rapid iterative development. Test Impact Analysis helps the team focus and prioritize by automatically identifying which tests are potentially affected by a pending change.

This post is part of a series of Visual Studio ALM webcasts that were delivered through 2010 and 2011 as part of an introduction to Visual Studio ALM. See An index to all Visual Studio 2010 Overview webcasts for a full list of webcasts.If you want a custom set of webcasts just for your company so that you can ask the hard questions you can as part of the Microsoft’s ALM Catalyst program.

Goals

Eliminate no-repro bugs with IntelliTrace
Prioritize & scale up regression testing

Demos

Diagnose and repair a reported bug using IntelliTrace
Verify regression of the fix with Test Impact Analysis

Recording

Screencast: Visual Studio 2010 Overview – IntelliTrace and Test Impact Analysis

This post is part of a series of Visual Studio ALM webcasts that were delivered through 2010 and 2011 as part of an introduction to Visual Studio ALM. See An index to all Visual Studio 2010 Overview webcasts for a full list of webcasts.If you want a custom set of webcasts just for your company so that you can ask the hard questions you can as part of the Microsoft’s ALM Catalyst program.

Martin Hinshelwood (MrHinsh)

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