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Setup SharePoint over a TFS 2010 Basic Install
Team Foundation Server 2010 has a great flexibility concerning its configuration. When the binaries are installed, a wizard shows up and propose you many types of installations: Basic, Standard, Custom, etc. If you configured your TFS with either Basic...
Under the limits
The new release of Team Foundation Server 2010 went out few weeks ago. As I was lazy, I installed a quick VM to test it out, I put 512 Meg of RAM because I was cheap and planned to setup the basic version. Well, it didn’t go very well at first as...
A new Team System MVP out there!
Just a quick post to say that I became Team System MVP from today! I’m really excited about it and I’ll continue hard working for this great community ! Thanks to all the people that helped on Team System from the early years to now: Eric...
Posted: Jul 01 2009, 04:16 PM by loicbaumann | with no comments
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Welcome to the Team Lab world!
The beta 1 of Visual Studio 2010 and Team System kicked out few weeks ago. As you may know it’s a major release of the Microsoft’s development tools. Most of the product were already existing in the previous version and was greatly improved...
My eSata port doesn’t work! Another noob issue solved…
I was very excited today because I got my new eSata external drive with a Vertex 120 GB, so I plugged it and…. nothing happened! No way I could put the Vertex in USB: the performances drop big time. So I gotta find a way to solve this issue. If...
Posted: Jun 18 2009, 05:30 PM by loicbaumann | with no comments
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How to know the remaining life of your Vertex SSD
MLC SSD have a limited life time, the vertex announced a MTBF (Mean Time Before Failure) of 1.5 million of hours. This number is only based on a statistic of “how many gig of data you’re writing everyday”. So if you really want to know...
Posted: Jun 18 2009, 09:25 AM by loicbaumann | with no comments
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How to quickly flash your Vertex SSD from USB
You can flash your Vertex’s firmware only from the DOS (under Windows or WinPE won’t work). Here is the fastest way to create a bootable USB Key containing the DOS version of Windows 98. The procedure was stolen form this OCZ forum post ....
Posted: Jun 18 2009, 08:04 AM by loicbaumann | with no comments
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OCZ released the 1.3 Firmware of the Vertex
The official post in the OCZ can be found here . Links to the Firmware for the different size of SSD: 30 Gig 60 Gig 120 Gig 250 Gig You can safely flash your SSD from the DOS and it won't erase your existing data ! You can flash from the version 1275...
Posted: Jun 18 2009, 07:40 AM by loicbaumann | with no comments
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When a network newbie plays with Hyper-V
I use Hyper-V since a while now, but somehow I always managed to get the network part working without doing anything special, until I met System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM)… When I was creating VMs and connecting them with an Internal...
Posted: Jun 05 2009, 05:06 PM by loicbaumann | with no comments
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Roaming with Hyper-V: solving network issues
I installed Windows 2008 Server x64 with Hyper-V since a while on my laptop. Hyper-V was a great way for me to build up prototypes of several servers in a V-LAN and once you tasted the multiple Snapshot feature, it’s hard to live without it. Now...
Posted: Jun 05 2009, 07:36 AM by loicbaumann | with no comments
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What you need to know to use the Process Template API
Developing an application using the Team Foundation Server Process Template feature is not an easy task, mainly because of the lack of documentation and sample around it. As I had to deal with it when writing the WITSynchronizer I guess I can share some...
Released a new Codeplex project: WITSynchronizer
Working with many clients on ALM and development processes I am often in a situation like this: I create a Process Template for the client and then create a Team Project based on it. The Team Project will become the "reference Team Project"...
News about very old stuffs
Well, it's been a long time that I didn't post a message. There were many reasons to that, one of them was undergoing surgery of my right shoulder and then being out for more than 2 months. So let's make some new with old stuffs. Back in 2004...
VSTS2010 CTP11: Work Items – Part 1
As I said in the previous post , the Work Item feature of the current version of TFS is already great, but everybody knows there's room for improvement. So far, here are the pros and cons I see in the current state. Pros Integrated in the Development...
VSTS2010 CTP11: Work Items – Preamble
I continue my journey on the evaluation of the latest CTP of Visual Studio 2010 (formally known as Rosario), now is the time to play with one of my favorites part of TFS: the Work Items. I can really say that the Work Items were for me the main reason...
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