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TFS Integration Tools – How long will it take to migrate X GB VC/WIT data?
The bad news is that the answer should come at no surprise … “it depends”. Here is some information...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/06/2011
Canada Day, 4th July, 2.5 Years in VC
While the Canadians celebrated Canada Day on 1st July and the Americans celebrated 4th July over the...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/05/2011
TFS Integration Tools – Why is ReflectedWorkItemId not working? (Bug 690647)
We have just raised a bug against the latest build of the TFS Integration Tools, as the feature...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/05/2011
Francisco keeping the Spanish community informed with passion!
Francisco Fagas has just posted a series of posts for the Spanish community, which consolidates the...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/04/2011
Rangers June 2011 Flash
Projects News CodedUI (VSCUG) project is focused on the in-depth guidance topics. Word4TFS (TFSWP)...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/01/2011
What the Visual Studio ALM Rangers “voiced” in the FY11 Satisfaction Survey
For those that are following the Visual Studio ALM Rangers you are well aware that quality,...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/01/2011
BRDLite Build Reference Template – Hotfix 1 has been posted
We have just posted a BRDLite Build Reference Template hotfix, which resolves this bug: ID Title...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/01/2011
Random Poll: Favourite format for Visual Studio ALM Rangers guidance?
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Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 07/01/2011
Random Poll: Your favourite Visual Studio ALM Rangers infrastructure
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Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/29/2011
Another great cheat sheet by Robert
Robert MacLean has delivered another great nugget Mercurial Cheat Sheet … if you, like I, love...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/24/2011
As always the latest guidance includes “visual” quick reference posters
Here are a few examples of the quick reference posters created by the Rangers, which you can find in...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/22/2011
Use(full|less) information on latest Visual Studio ALM Ranger projects
We recently shipped Visual Studio Lab Management Guidance and Visual Studio Build Customization...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/21/2011
TFS Integration Tools – “out of memory exception” now what?
Discussions around the “out of memory” exception encountered during migrations have raised the...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/20/2011
External Ranger Guideline Checklist
Posted for easy referencing as requested by Bob. As everyone knows we have been dogfooding new...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/20/2011
AHE – Visual Studio Lab Management uses the VM Factory
As shown in the task sequence selection dialog, the latest VM Factory has been consolidated to...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/17/2011
We have shipped … Visual Studio Lab Management Guidance
“Cowabunga” … the Visual Studio ALM Rangers have finally shipped the Visual Studio 2010 Lab...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/17/2011
TOC: Lab Management Guide Blog Posts and Reference Sites
This blog post pulls together all the blog posts that relate to the Visual Studio 2010 Lab...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/17/2011
TOC: Build Customization Guide Blog Posts and Reference Sites
This blog post pulls together all the blog posts that relate to the Visual Studio Build...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/17/2011
Virtualization Machine (VM) Factory – Getting Started with your own factory
Here is a checklist on how to get your own factory running … for some it will be easy...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/17/2011
Virtualization Machine (VM) Factory – Problem: Errors were reported after the execution of a task sequence
Another FAQ nugget by Paul Meyer (VMFactory Master). Problem Errors were reported after the...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/15/2011
Virtualization Machine (VM) Factory – Problem: After booting from the WinPE ISO, MDT complains that it cannot reach the deployment share
Paul Meyer (VMFactory Master) has started gathering some common problems, here is the first nugget....
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/15/2011
Embracing Channel9 … with exciting a-la-Brian features coming :)
As an experiment we have started to post the Visual Studio ALM Ranger videos to Channel9 as well....
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/11/2011
TOC: Virtual Machine (VM) Factory
This blog post pulls together all the blog posts that relate to the Visual Studio Virtual Machine...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/10/2011
Visual Studio ALM Rangers – 5 Year Report … sharing the essentials
We recently presented the Visual Studio ALM Rangers 5-year report, to the leadership, the ALM MVPs...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/09/2011
TOC: Architecture Tooling Guidance
This blog post pulls together all the blog posts that relate to the Visual Studio 2010 Architecture...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/09/2011
Ranger Solutions in FY11 … the team has been busy with blog and projects
A recent revision to our blog is the addition of TOC (table of content) type blog posts, which tie...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/07/2011
Random Poll: What is an "acceptable time" to make a phone call after hours?
Online Surveys - Zoomerang.com
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/07/2011
TOC: TFS Iteration Automation Blog Posts and Reference Sites
This blog post pulls together all the blog posts that relate to the TFS Iteration Automation...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/07/2011
Build Release Deploy (BRDLite) … what is it?
The Rangers Build Customization Guide is on the verge of shipping, in fact it has been on Codeplex,...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/06/2011
FAQ (3) Why does it take so long to ship a Rangers Guidance project?
The Ranges Build Customization Guide project has been feature complete for weeks, yet it has still...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/05/2011
Visual Studio ALM Rangers Champion Awards
In External Ranger Champions 2011.1 and “the” Champion of Champions are announced! we announced the...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/02/2011
FAQ (2) about the Visual Studio ALM Rangers … Core/Extended/External? … Why Surveys?
Two more questions were asked in recent conversations and it is time to post the second post ion the...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/01/2011
Rangers TFS Iteration Automation – Transparent Design Ramblings
Martin Hinshelwood, the dev lead for the TFS Iteration Automation project, has posted a number of...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 06/01/2011
Rangers May 2011 Flash
Projects News CodedUI (VSCUG) project is in the middle of sprint 3. The team is working on the...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/31/2011
Tour of Vancouver Island with Bob during his Rangers Sabbatical
Today Bob and I enjoyed a tour of Vancouver Island, visiting Victoria and enjoying some great...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/29/2011
Visual Studio ALM Rangers … “5” Years already? … the highlights :)
The Visual ALM Rangers are 5 years old, which is a huge milestone for the Rangers. In this blog...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/27/2011
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Danny Crone
This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See An index to all Rangers covered...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/24/2011
TFS Integration Tools – Where does one start? … part 4 (Mapping users the easy way)
We continue from TFS Integration Tools – Where does one start? … part 1 (documentation), TFS...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/18/2011
TFS Integration Tools -Why is my user value mapping only working partially? Q&A-54
Q: In recent migrations we used a field and value mapping to map users from the source system to...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/17/2011
TFS Integration Tools – Where does one start? … part 3 (dust has settled …. did it work?)
We continue from TFS Integration Tools – Where does one start? … part 1 (documentation) and TFS...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/16/2011
TFS Integration Tools – Where does one start? … part 2 (try a simple migration)
We continue from TFS Integration Tools – Where does one start? … part 1 (documentation) and in this...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/13/2011
TFS Integration Tools – Where does one start? … part 1 (documentation)
We are currently looking at the product documentation and ways of improving, considering ideas such...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/11/2011
External Ranger Champions 2011.1 and “the” Champion of Champions are announced!
Twice a year the extended Rangers are asked to nominate up to a maximum of four external Visual...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/09/2011
Rangers Lab Management Guide (AHE) enters BETA phase
On the 28th April we released the Rangers Build Customization Guide package to the BETA phase and a...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/09/2011
Visual Studio Tooling Guidance … have you noticed the videos?
Since we released the latest version of the guidance and in particular the Visual Studio extension...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/06/2011
Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Brian Minisi
This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See An index to all Rangers covered...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/02/2011
Sharing is caring .. MCDC supports the community!
On Friday last week we had the pleasure of jumping on a bus and being driven to the Richmond Fruit...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 05/02/2011
Rangers April 2011 Flash
Projects News CodedUI (VSCUG) project is finishing their first sprint and has defined outlines for...
Author: Willy-P. Schaub Date: 04/30/2011