TFS2010: Build, deploy, test links

Ports Required for Installation of Team Foundation Components
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd578664.aspx

How to: Deploy an Application on a Virtual Environment
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee471614.aspx

Build and Deploy Continuously
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee308011.aspx

Understanding a Team Foundation Build System
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd793166.aspx

Define a Build Using the Default Template
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd647547.aspx#configs

Control Where the Build System Places Your Binaries
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ff977206.aspx

Team Foundation Build Activities – InvokeProcess
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/gg265783.aspx#Activity_InvokeProcess

Virtualization: Running VirtualBox on a Windows 7 laptop – Windows 2008 R2 Server guest

Using VirtualBox as hypervisor on a laptop eases usage of WLAN and USB on the guest OS.

This post is based on using VirtualBox 3.1.6 on Windows 7 (64 bit) with Windows 2008 R2 server, 64 bit, Standard edition.

Out of the box Windows 7 installed drivers for the WLAN in my laptop (with CPU i7 720) and for the full HD resolution video card. Nice.

TFS: Avoid corresponding paths on VPC’s

Have you ever experienced that you and another developer has a copy of the same VPC and wants to Check Out from TFS to the same path on each of your copy?

If yes, then you also know that TFS won’t allow this. I forgot what error it comes with.

You could change local path or computer name to get around this, but it might not be without trouble.

If you cannot change local path due to it might give you some extra trouble
and you don’t want to change the computer name – this can also cause trouble for SW like SharePoint – then:

Give each user each own virtual path to the C: drive.

CPU: Choosing a CPU for virtualization

When you need to host several virtual machines (VM) in a PC, the CPU must support virtualization.

Good performance is reached, when there is a logical CPU and a Disk present for each VM.

SP2010 Beta: Installation

In preparing for installing a developer environment with SharePoint2010 Beta I have collected a little info.

Everybody point to Jie Li as the expert.

But do also check out Setting Up the Development Environment for SharePoint Server.

64 bit OS and SW on top is required. If the 64 bit  OS is not available you can use VMWare on a 32 bit OS to host 64 bit guest OS’s.
For a workstation (like Windows 7) a VMWare licence is not free. On a server, the licence is free. 

SP2010 and Office2010 – My first preview

I must admit that I am impressed.

Going to Win 2008 R2, Exchanserver 2010, Office 2010 and SharePint 2010 alltogether really makes a difference. I am usually not easy impressed.

I’ve attended Campus Days 2010 in CPH – DK. The program was designed for IT Pro’s, but had great first view tracks and a lab, where you could try it all out.

BTS09 – New VPC

Just saw a new VPC for Biztalk 2009 has become available for download.

Seems like the demo has integration with Sharepoint

Update: The link above is dead. But it is also awailable at SoftPedia.

WSS30/MOSS07: Cleanup VPC

So how do you cleanup your VPC for making it look like a clean MOSS07 machine?

In this way you retain the patches from automatic update and whatever utilities, personalisations and whatever else you have to do from scratch.
This might be faster, be possible to automate or at least just to make a checklist of like here:

TFS 2008 inst: Errors

While trying to install TFS 2008 as in standalone mode on a Win server 2003 several installation prerequisites had to be met:

VPC: HowTo optimize VPC

When you are using VPC’s, there are ways to optimize performance and enhance usage.

In Bios:

• Create full isolation between VPC’s: In Bios: Enable Virtualization Technology.

In VPC Console:

• Enable use of special chars like “{” by using AltGr: File – Options – Keyboard – Change AltGr to RightCtrl
• Add RAM and increase memory amount allocated to the Virtual Machine: Select the VM – Settings – Memory – increase using the ruler, while the VM is shut down.

Each Virtual Machine:

• Sync the HW of your PC with your image: With the VM open: Action – Install or update VM additions – Select C:\Program Files\Microsoft Virtual PC\Virtual Machine Additions\VMAdditions.iso

If your host is Win2k8 srv and the VPC is Hyper-V then use Remote Desktop as Client. Graphics update is faster and the look and feel is like when you are operating the production environment.

Link: http://blogs.msdn.com/Virtual_PC_Guy/

Thanx to Peter Karpinski

WSS: HowTo build a WSS project – Installation requirements

Here are some suggestions of how you can get the first touch on WSS.

Here might be supplemented with a list of installation requirement.