Magnus Timner

TFS 2010 Database size increase

Magnus Timner — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 15:55:04 GMT

Several of my customers have been complaining the last few months that their Collection databases have increased in size with several hundred percent. I read Grant Holidays blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/granth/archive/2011/02/12/tfs2010-test-attachment-cleaner-and-why-you-should-be-using-it.aspx) an ... (More)

Visual Studio ALM Rangers Dev 11 projects

Magnus Timner — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 13:00:08 GMT

Microsoft released the Visual Studio 2011 Beta a few weeks ago. Here are the downloads: TFS Developer Preview here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27542 VS 2001 developer preview here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27543 There is also a ... (More)

Scrum for Team System

Magnus Timner — Mon, 03 Oct 2011 14:08:52 GMT

Crispin Parker has launched the Scrum for Team System v3 process template as an open source project on Codeplex. Read more and download it here: http://scrumforteamsystem.codeplex.com/

Team Foundation Power Tools, August 2011

Magnus Timner — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 17:43:15 GMT

Microsoft released the August 2010 release of Team Foundation Power Tools. Here are my favorites this time: Work Item Search Finally an easy way to search within Team Explorer. Just type the word you want to search in the new search box and the result turns up as a query result. Rollback in the UI ... (More)

Excel Iteration Backlog and Invalid dates

Magnus Timner — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 11:17:09 GMT

The Iteration dates are not valid I recently got the following error while using the Burndown Excel tab in the MSF Agile Iteration Backlog workbook: "The Iteration dates are not valid. Switch back to the Settings tab and enter valid dates." After some troubleshooting I discovered that i ... (More)

Index error while upgrading to TFS 2010

Magnus Timner — Fri, 15 Jul 2011 13:50:05 GMT

While helping a customer to upgrade from TFS 2008 to TFS 2010 on a new hardware platform I got the following error in the log during the upgrade process: [Error] Cannot use duplicate column names in index. Column name 'AreaID' listed more than once. Cannot use duplicate column names in index. Colum ... (More)

Team Foundation Server and SQL Server 2008 R2 license

Magnus Timner — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 15:45:37 GMT

When you install Team Foundation Server 2010 on a single server and have an MSDN subscription (which covers TFS) you get SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition for free, if you don't use it for anything else but TFS. When SQL Server 2008 R2 arrived some time ago it was not included in the licenses terms, ... (More)

Migration from ReQtest/Excel to TFS

Magnus Timner — Fri, 08 Jul 2011 14:59:45 GMT

One of my customers wanted me to migrate Test Cases with steps and expected results from ReQtest to Team Foundation Server. This is how you do it: Export your Test Cases from ReQtest to Excel. Download and install Test Migrator Plus from Codeplex, http://tcmimport.codeplex.com/. Start Test Case Mi ... (More)

Manual upgrade a TFS project to a new Process template

Magnus Timner — Wed, 27 Apr 2011 13:49:49 GMT

There are several ways to migrate your TFS projects to a new process template, in this blog I am going to describe how to do it manually. It's not easy but might be worth a try. Download the process template you want to upgrade to disk with the process template manager, for example to D:\ MyDownload ... (More)

Using the Scrum for Team System Migration Tool

Magnus Timner — Mon, 11 Apr 2011 16:36:32 GMT

EMC Consulting recently released a tool for migrating from SfTS v2 to v3. The process Download the tool here: http://scrumforteamsystem.com/main-news/sfts-v3-migration-tool-goes-gold Before you begin Create a new Scrum 3.0 project that you want to migrate to. If you have customized fields in the ... (More)