A Two Day Event: SDLC in a Box on July 15-16, 2009

WHAT:
This 2 day event will focus on application life-cycle management, we will review how one may leverage TFS and VSTS on a project, from initial conception through requirements gathering, design, development, testing, build & review processes. We will demonstrate integration with non-Microsoft development and best-of-breed partner solutions & offerings for Visual Studio 2008 Team System.

For additional information please see http://www.sdlcinabox.com/

Target Audience:
This two day sessions is targeted for Developers, Architects, Project Managers, DBAs and Business Analysts looking for ALM and researching Team Foundation Server.

Speakers:
1. Alexei Govorine:
Co-Founder of the Central Ohio ALM Group
ALM/.NET Practice Manager for Quick Solutions
2. Mike Gresley:
MS SLG Dev Tools team
3. David Baliles:
MS SLG Dev Tools team
Co-Founder of the SDLC in a Box program

WHERE:
Capitol Annex Bldg: Room 171, 700 Capital Avenue Frankfort, KY 40601

WHEN:
July 15-16, 2009 from 9-4:30 PM

Registration Link: http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032418198&Culture=en-US

TF26204 error when importing WorkItems in TFS08 SP1

Recently,
I have run into a problem while importing a workitem template from one TFS project to another. The error I got was slightly misleading at first:
TF26204: The account you have entered is not recognized. You do not persmission, please contact your TFS Administrator.

After, traditional WTF (mummbling) and Googling for an error I have narrow down the problem to the rules used on the template. This MSDN article was a big clue!

The Work Item template I was importing had rules with regards to user lists.
Specifically the original Project Template had a custom security group "Testers" and the WI template has rules specific to this group, in my case it was: , the new project was created with a different template and did not contain mentioned group.

At this point I had two options:
1. Modify WI template and remove all references to the non-existent security group. Good starting point is here or here.
2. Add the missing group to the TFS Project. From VS menu click Team Team Project Settings Group Memebership and click New.

I have choosen option 2. This error may also show up if you have custom lists that use "\" in this case I recomend to replace "\" with "" via option 1.

Failed to setup TFS 2008 with SQL Server 2008 on Windows 2008

Finally got around to installing a brand spanky new TFS 2008 + SQL 2008 + Win2008 and out of gate run into a problem:

"The System Health Check has detected a problem that will cause Setup to fail. "
Description A compatible version of SQL Server is not installed.

So, I go over the guide and SQL install to make sure that I did install supported version for TFS08: SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition or Standard Edition and of course everything looks good.

On my second pass through the guide and find a small gotcha that I missed in the Prerequisite Installation: Team Foundation Server with a data-tier server that is running SQL Server 2008, you must integrate this service pack with files from the installation DVD for Team Foundation Server.

So to resolve the problem, one must follow instructions from the install guide: How to:

Integrate the Installation of Team Foundation Server and Service Pack 1.

bottom line: pay attention to the TFS Install Guide! ... and you may save a few hours of WTF is going on.

COALMG cross 30

Dan Rigsby did a great job on presenting Agile Project Management with Scrum and we have a record attendance of 31 people out 56 members.

Looking forward to our next meeting in January, hopefully we will be able to pull it off before the Codemash

Set a Guinness World Record with downloading FF3

Central Ohio ALM Group meeting

First of all I would like to aplogize to everyone who signed up for the email notifications for the ALM User Group. That list was mis-placed and I was not able to add people.
so we will try it one more time with list sign up, or you can subscribe to our blog or sign through codezone.

An now i am proudly announce that we have our first meeting on 4/29/08 at 5:30 pm.
See more details at the site.

Pictures from Detroit VS2008 Launch Event & Geek Dinner

http://www.flickr.com/photos/69157670@N00/sets/72157604167260604/