Sometimes some of my blog comments get sent to spam and I don’t see them until two weeks later when I normally do a check up on my spam folder. I’ll then move those back to the inbox. Unfortunately at that point all of the mail is mixed throughout pages and pages and pages of…
Monthly Archives: October 2008
TFS – Disabling Continuous Integration with NO-CI
This is kind of a “known thing” to those of us who automate team builds tasks in TFS with build scripts but there are still a lot of people who don’t know this… so here we go… The 2008 version of TFS implemented Continuous Integration. In TFS, a build is triggered upon every check-in (if…
Google IG Home Page – RSS Feed Issues
If you use Google IG like I do to read RSS feeds, note… there is one flaw with it and you may not be getting the latest content. I figured this out because it accidentally happened to me and to the guys at Foo Theory. I believe its used to happen to Peter Brombergs UnBlog…
The Importance of Incremental Builds
With continuous integration being integrated into Team Foundation Server 2008 we can sometimes run into unexpected results. Such as extended build times. By default the build file is set up to inform the TFS Build Agent that it should perform a “Full Build”. What is a “Full Build”? By default, when TFS performs a build…
TFS Users & Groups with Active Directory Policies
I forgot where I learned this (perhaps the TFS Admin guide) but … this is a good little tip… When you add users to groups in AD and those groups are present in the Team Foundation Server Security groups it can take up to 60 minutes for the policy to be pushed down into…
