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• Moving on...

  After 9.5+ years of being part of the family (woodwork?) at OS Integration, Conchango and EMC Consulting I have decided to take a break before doing something technical again. Today is my last day. All the blog posts here will be preserved, and I plan Read More... Posted 02 October 2009 12:00 by Stuart.Preston | 0 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Scrum for Team System, Career, PDC

• Scrum for Team System v3.0 - plans.

  Now that Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1 and Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 1 are available on MSDN Subscriber Downloads, we’d like to announce our broad plans for Scrum for Team System . The next release of Scrum for Team System will be v3.0 Read More... Posted 19 May 2009 15:58 by Stuart.Preston | 4 Comments Filed under: TFS, Scrum, Scrum for Team System, Team System, VSTS, Visual Studio, Team Foundation Server, .NET Framework, Team Explorer

• Scrum for Team System v2.2, SQL Server 2008 and the Team Project portal.

  If you have implemented Scrum for Team System v2.2 in a TFS 2008 environment with SQL Server 2008 as the database, then you will find that you get the below error when viewing the Team Project portal “Client found response content type of '', but expected Read More... Posted 06 April 2009 14:40 by Stuart.Preston | 1 Comments Attachment(s): 20090227-1600.Conchango.TeamSystem.Scrum.Sharepoint.zip

• Scrum for Team System v2.2 and 64-bit Sharepoint (WSS or MOSS)

  A few support queries and tweets have come up recently about our support for 64-bit Sharepoint (WSS or MOSS) with Scrum for Team System v2.2 and TFS. The crux of the issue seems to be the ability of the installer to detect the location of WSS as it is Read More... Posted 03 April 2009 09:10 by Stuart.Preston | 3 Comments Filed under: MOSS, Sharepoint, TFS, Scrum, Scrum for Team System, Team System, Team Foundation Server, Team Explorer, WSS Attachment(s): Conchango.TeamSystem.Scrum.Sharepoint.2.2.zip

• Scrum for Team System v2.x and distributed setups (remote WSS or MOSS)

  As part of work recently to improve how we test the Scrum for Team System template and tools across different platforms, we have discovered there are a few additional manual steps to take when you are installing the template in a distributed environment Read More... Posted 21 January 2009 12:00 by Stuart.Preston | 2 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, MOSS, KB, Scrum, Scrum for Team System, Team System, VSTS, Visual Studio, 2008

• Windows 7 Beta and the National Rail Enquiries Gadget

  Well it’s only been a few days since Windows 7 Beta became publicly available and I’ve already received quite a few messages from people attempting to run the National Rail Enquiries Vista Gadget on it and being presented with the following instead of Read More... Posted 12 January 2009 12:31 by Stuart.Preston | 2 Comments Filed under: Microsoft, Vista, Gadget, Sidebar, Live Departure Boards, National Rail Enquiries, Windows 7, Beta Attachment(s): LiveDepartureBoards.Windows7.zip

• Windows Server “Core” SP2 will support .NET Framework and ASP.NET

  I remember attending the keynote at TechEd 2007 and being disappointed that ASP.NET applications will not run on Windows Server “Core” 2008. Well today I’m happy to learn that ASP.NET and a “subset of .NET 2.0, 3.0 and 3.5” (whatever that means) will Read More... Posted 24 November 2008 22:05 by Stuart.Preston | 0 Comments

• Team Foundation Error: Windows Live Messenger is not running.

  If you have installed the October 2008 TFS Power Tools ( http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=FBD14EEA-781F-45A1-8C46-9F6BA2F68BF0&displaylang=en ) and you are running the latest Windows Live Messenger Beta ( http://download.live.com/messenger Read More... Posted 18 November 2008 09:43 by Stuart.Preston | 4 Comments Filed under: TFS, VSTS, Visual Studio, WLM, Windows Live Messenger

• Test your web design in different browsers - for free

  Whilst surfing this morning I found this website: http://browsershots.org   "Browsershots makes screenshots of your web design in different browsers. It is a free open-source online service created by Johann C. Rocholl. When you submit your Read More... Posted 23 March 2008 11:43 by Stuart.Preston | 3 Comments

• MSBuild Project Template v2.0

  Last year I created an MSBuild Project Template that lets you work with Source Control (e.g. Team Foundation Server) and decent syntax highlighting by default when using MSBuild proj files.  It was fairly well received and I finally got time today Read More... Posted 21 March 2008 18:40 by Stuart.Preston | 5 Comments