VM Prep Tool for Visual Studio Team Lab Management 2010
Microsoft has released the first version of the Virtual Machine Preparation Tool for Visual Studio Team Lab management 2010. What a mouthfull! Try saying that three times in a row.. Well, the tool function is to prepare existing VMs to be compatible with VS 2010 Lab Management requirements, and believe me, there are a few. Configuring an existing VM by hand is a tedious and VERY error prone task, and so this tool was born. Download it from http://vslabmgmt.codeplex.com/, this version is prepared to work with VSTS 2010 Beta 2 and Windows Server 2008 X86 SP2 VMs. They will be adding m

Build Silverlight 2.0 or 3.0 projects with an x64 TFS 2010 Build Agent
I was trying to build our biggest solution after migration (TEST migration) and found that Silverlight projects won't compile. The first error we received was "The Silverlight 2 SDK is not installed". I found a post on the Silverlight forum about this and managed to fix the error, but then a second error appear:  "The "ValidateXaml" task failed unexpectedly ... System.IO.FileLoadException: Could not load file or assembly 'PresentationCore, Version=3.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35' or one of its dependencies. The given assembly name or codebase was invalid. (Exception from HRESULT: 0x80131047)

Enabled new ALM features after migration of TFS2008 to TFS2010
The test migration of our TFS 2008 went extremely well (the import command processed nearly 7GB of data from our TFS 2008) in less than half hour, and all running in my notebook (not some kickass server...). Today I executed the script published by Hakan Eskici to upgrate the process template from v4.2 to v5, by simply running a BET file. The process is very simple and fast, and after that we now have the updated process template with all the TFS 2010 goodies enabled. Check out the process and download the script from

Step by step TFS 2010 configuration
Here I found a good post about how to setup TFS 2010 (and everything else). http://juliocasal.com/archive/2009/11/02/team-foundation-server-2010-beta-2-office-sharepoint-server-2007-single-server-installation-part-1.aspx TFS 2010 is easier to setup than previous versions, but I cannot say the same for Sharepoint...

MOSS & TFS 2010: Insufficient rights when configuring SSO
If you try to configure the SSO (Single Sign-On) in Sharepoint 2007 for TFS 2010, you migh get the dreaded "Insufficient Rights" error. Configuring the SSO for TFS is not THAT well documented, and you keep finding instructions like "Configure the propper applicaiton domain groups". What the heck that means? Anyway, the first step is to configure the "Microsoft Single Sign On" service on EVERY Sharepoint frontend server. Change startup to AUTOMATIC, configure a DOMAIN account for that service, make it local administrator, add it to the local WSS_ADMIN_WPG group. You can use the service account you us