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2018 5

  1. Deprecating this (aka.ms/willysblog) blog
  2. devconf’s log #5 – Sad it’s over, stoked over chats, and the 25h trek home
  3. devconf’s log #4 – “Was zum Geier?”, lean coffee, and rain!
  4. devconf’s log #2 – Sun, Mandela, and no Bowtie
  5. devconf’s log #1 – Flights, floods, and lack of sleep

2017 3

  1. What’s with the Ravens logo?
  2. Turning on the cold for Tiago – welcome to a cool Vancouver!
  3. What’s up with us playing Kanban games in the garage?

2016 8

  1. Three great books on DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and Team Foundation Server
  2. A Raspberry Pi2 VSTS Build Light – Part 2, assembling and installing the software
  3. A Raspberry Pi2 VSTS Build Light – Part 1, unwrapping the package
  4. A morning at the food bank … keep those opened cookies!
  5. A morning at the food bank … keep those opened cookies!
  6. Talking about Scrum, Kanban, Agile Portfolio Management with Visual Studio Team Services at DevConf ZA
  7. IPELENG risk management services made my ZA trip a breeze
  8. Completed a dream journey after only 24 years

2015 36

  1. Remembrance day at Semihamoo beach on 11.11 @ 11:11
  2. Day of caring ... a chance to enjoy the beauty of Stanley Park
  3. The NEWS is back for Visual Studio 2015
  4. Windows 10 upgrade was uneventful, result is awesome
  5. Delete Team Project – are you ABSOLUTELY sure?
  6. Unplugging from #almrangers to enjoy the Boundary Bay airshow
  7. Learn how to implement the DevOps model of expedited software development
  8. Visual Studio 2015 launch resources
  9. First impressions last … when is it the right time to be transparent?
  10. To break or not to break stories down into tasks …
  11. Time-slicing through a context-switching vortex and proposing a cookbook
  12. Another great community day with colleagues at the Sharing Farm
  13. Weekend pictures at the seawall, relaxing and remembering!
  14. From VSTS 2005 to VSO Rename … time flies when you are having fun!
  15. My last Rangers post on this blog and then a switch back to personal reflections …
  16. Git for the TFVC User – Workflow Investigations Part 4: Converting a TFVC repository
  17. Git for the TFVC User – Workflow Investigations Part 3: Reviewing Changes (With Conflicts)
  18. Git for the TFVC User – Workflow Investigations Part 2: Reviewing Changes (No Conflicts)
  19. MS Press – Managing Agile Open Source Software using Visual Studio Online
  20. Git for the TFVC User – Workflow Investigations Part 1: Making Changes
  21. NEWS extension reminded me to get excited about the latest VSO planning features
  22. Ranger Flash – February 2015 … T-105,167 downloads to a million!
  23. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Ricardo Serradas
  24. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Marcelo Hideaki Azuma
  25. What … there is a development centre in Vancouver?!?
  26. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Derek Keeler
  27. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Doug Owens
  28. How to raise a “gap” and “solution idea” which will make it onto the Rangers backlog
  29. Casual interviews with a number of ALM Rangers … meet the face and person behind the name!
  30. An antidote to drowning in email and losing sight of the important communication threads
  31. Ranger Flash – January 2015 … we focus on the best of the best and TechReady
  32. Git support included with the extracting effective permissions sample and research completed
  33. Understanding TFS migrations from on-premises to Visual Studio Online – Part 2: Walkthrough
  34. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Radoslav Minchev
  35. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Abel Wang
  36. Visual Studio ALM Rangers - Champion Awards 2015

2014 125

  1. Wondering who the ALM Rangers are? Start here…
  2. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – David Starr
  3. Understanding TFS migrations from on-premise to Visual Studio Online – Part 1: Concepts
  4. Hassan Fadili @ SDC Conference and VINCI institute – the evidence :)
  5. Extracting effective permissions from TFS whitepaper and sample
  6. Ranger Flash – November 2014 … a very brief flash!
  7. Influence triage of project ideas #11 and what the ALM Rangers focus on in next in three easy steps
  8. Team Foundation Server Word Add-in goes OSS as a “sample”
  9. Fun of PM.4 … Advocate and evangelise
  10. Another custom t-shirt for our midnight demo warrior!
  11. Hassan Fadili @ SDC Conference and VINCI institute
  12. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Danijel Malik
  13. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Gerson Dias
  14. Chuck being sucked down the audio channel vortex
  15. Many Git Repositories, but one Team Project to rule them all
  16. Visual Studio ALM Rangers update a la Channel9 series
  17. Pop Quiz – Answers … which Rangers solution enjoyed the highest downloads :)
  18. Pop Quiz … which Rangers solution enjoys the highest downloads?
  19. ALM Rangers – Triage #10 is gathering evidence and we need your input
  20. PowerShell Desired State Configuration for DevOps and ALM Practitioners v1
  21. Certificate in DevOps - Minimal Capabilities for DevOps
  22. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Donovan Brown
  23. Ranger Flash – September 2014 brings guidance updates and reminds us of the news widget
  24. Widgets rule … but how do you find them and do authors care about feedback?
  25. Fun of PM.3 … Orchestrate and enable
  26. Why the Visual Studio NEWS extension is nothing to ignore or sneeze at!
  27. TFS on Azure (IAAS) Planning and Ops Guide v1.4.2 update published
  28. Controlled Vocabulary 101 … typed at the most stunning office!
  29. Project Unicorn – Part 1. Initial context and an explanation of our “kick-off” event
  30. ALM Rangers Triage #9 – the first of the rolling triages
  31. Testing and evaluating Microsoft Word as my blog editor
  32. FAQ - Why do we use the flight analogy for our projects?
  33. TFS upgrade guide revision and the new process guidance paper landed safely
  34. Are our project idea triages effective? Help us reflect and innovate!
  35. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Josh Garverick
  36. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Oscar Garcia Colon
  37. Ranger Flash – August 2014 … Planets are aligned
  38. Aligning our planets with a common cadence and synchronization
  39. Fun of PM.2 … Energi[s|z]ing the team
  40. Fun of PM.1 … Persona within the ALM Rangers
  41. Pirates ship ALM Readiness Treasure Map v3 release for Windows 8.1
  42. Ben Roscorla joins the ALM Rangers Ruck Masters … Ruck?
  43. ALM Rangers Triage #8 - What happened to your idea on UserVoice?
  44. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Steve St Jean
  45. Ranger Flash – July 2014 … Turbulent weather, events and lots of pizza
  46. What happens when 13 Rangers meet on a weekend to discuss a framework?
  47. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Alex Belotserkovskiy
  48. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – José Freire Neto
  49. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Daniel Mann
  50. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Sergio A Romero
  51. Getting ready for a weekend of candid discussions around scaling agile
  52. ¿Habla Español? … Version Control Guides v3
  53. ALM Rangers @ TR19 … day 4 impressions … what about day 3?
  54. Triage of ideas … ∆ process changes
  55. ALM Rangers @ TR19 … day 2 impressions
  56. Building a Release Pipeline with TFS 2012 now includes HOLs for TFS 2013
  57. ALM Rangers @ TR19 … day 1 impressions
  58. Integrating “News” in the VS IDE … a cool extension update!
  59. ¿Habla Español? … Testing Unitario con Microsoft® Fakes v1.2
  60. Let us re-iterate the family>job>rangers mantra and point to our dash / flight board for the ALM Rangers and community
  61. Managing distributed, part-time and virtual teams – Part 5 … Which visuali[s|z]ation catches your eye?
  62. Managing distributed, part-time and virtual teams – Part 4 … Sprint objectives and repetition rule!
  63. Have you ever pondered whether you would be interested in the Program Manager (PM) role?
  64. Ranger Flash – June 2014 … gearing up for another adventurous year
  65. Visual Studio ALM Community Widgets (aka.ms/widgets)
  66. Managing distributed, part-time and virtual teams – Part 2 … Portfolio, flights, teams, epics and VSO
  67. Managing distributed, part-time and virtual teams – Part 1 … Normali[s|z]ed estimations?
  68. Ranger Flash – May 2014
  69. TFS Planning, DR avoidance and TFS on Azure IaaS guidance embraces build
  70. Visual Studio ALM Ranger Important Links
  71. Version Control Guidance v3.0 flight has landed delivering three great guides and lots of visuals
  72. Anthony delivers another great ALM Walkthrough, this time in Vancouver!
  73. The first Rangers guide emerges from new copy-edit program … worth it?
  74. Unit Test Generator v1.3 and a chat about its origin and future
  75. TFS Planning, DR avoidance and TFS on Azure IaaS v1.4.BETA has shipped!
  76. What is the ALM Rangers year-end, grooming and recognition process all about?
  77. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Brian Messerich
  78. ALM Community shipped the Flight Plan … a simple, known and informative view!
  79. Delving into the new Version Control Guidance … what’s changed (1) and where is Git?
  80. Ranger Flash – April 2014
  81. Version Control guidance v3.BETA flight has landed
  82. Software Development with Feature Toggles
  83. What happened to the vsarPlanningGuide and vsarVersionControl silent releases?
  84. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Peter Oreland
  85. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Georg Drobny
  86. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Jesper Fernström
  87. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Shawn Mclean
  88. Using Power Map to light up the vast ALM Rangers community
  89. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Barry Paquet
  90. Ranger Flash – March 2014 … landing lights are on!
  91. Dog-fooding Journal #3 – Train-Research-Planning (TRP) Sprint Journey
  92. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Calvin Clark
  93. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Soung Bae
  94. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Paul Laberge
  95. Visibility and transparency is key to effective teams … taking a closer look at the flight plan status board
  96. Dog-fooding Journal #2 – Train-Research-Planning (TRP) Sprint … assembling the team
  97. Dog-fooding Journal #1 – Train-Research-Planning (TRP) Sprint Preparations
  98. Day OOF … re-booting in spectacular Vancouver
  99. Windows Azure – 101 Stuff and a mention of our TFS on Azure IaaS POC
  100. T-496 days for New Horizons … brings back a lot of memories of precious friends, books and a noisy generator during a power failure :)
  101. Ranger Flash – February 2014 … short month, brief flash :)
  102. On a personal note … the Illustrators release another great music video in South-Africa!
  103. ALM Rangers Triage #7 - What happened to your idea in UserVoice?
  104. What’s cooking in the ALM Rangers home?
  105. ALM Rangers email etiquette … part 1
  106. ALM Ranger Solutions – Proposed innovations … a byte for your thoughts?
  107. Lab Management Guide … v3 update is available!
  108. Ranger Flash – January 2014 … welcome to a new year of bit and byte adventures!
  109. Localised video gems for Visual Studio 2013 … get the popcorn!
  110. ALM Rangers Ruck – Proposed innovations to the v1.2 guidance. Thoughts?
  111. What … it has been 5 years already? Time flies when you are having fun :)
  112. A few more pictures from TechReady 18 … I am out of here and back home for 4 days :)
  113. A few pictures from TechReady 18 … finally!
  114. ALM Rangers Mission Statement … tweaked for the first time in 7 years
  115. Pre-TR Training … and a breakfast you should run away from :)
  116. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Baruch Frei
  117. How do you normalise your velocity estimation?
  118. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Wouter de Kort
  119. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Wanderson Lima
  120. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Rajesh Podapati
  121. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Alan Morais
  122. Ruck is not another process, it is simply “loose Scrum” … in the context of the ALM Rangers
  123. Two new special t-shirts for four special ALM Rangers!
  124. Better Unit Testing with Microsoft Fakes – eBook update v1.2 posted
  125. Ranger Flash – December 2013 … family.job.ranger shutdown comes to an end

2013 153

  1. ALM Rangers are briefly shutting down for some quality family time!
  2. A “few” of the pictures taken during 2013 to highlight a few of the many special moments no where near ALM Rangers
  3. A “few” of the pictures taken during 2013 to highlight a few of the many special moments with the ALM Rangers
  4. Testing Mobile Applications using Perfecto Mobile's MobileCloud … v2 is available!
  5. Philly Application Lifecycle Management User Group
  6. Looking for trend reporting against VS Online and more? Peruse the new TFS Reporting Guide!
  7. Another great “back to the future” song from South-Africa :)
  8. TFS Upgrade Guide comes out of silent BETA release and ships v3 for TFS 2013
  9. Pirates ship ALM Readiness Treasure Map v2.1 release for Windows 8.1
  10. Ranger Flash – November 2013 ... MVP summit, robotics and landing projects
  11. Looking at ALM Ranger solution download trends and interim prioriti[s|z]ation survey results
  12. Perfect working environment and a question on TFS training for Vancouver community
  13. Tell us about your success stories!
  14. Unit Test Generator v1.2 and Tim’s Gremlins
  15. FAQ: What are silent releases and why are the ALM Rangers using them?
  16. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Chris Margraff
  17. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Michael Wiley
  18. Things you probably [did not] know about the Visual Studio ALM Rangers
  19. ALM Rangers Triage #6 - What happened to your idea in UserVoice?
  20. Ranger Flash – October 2013
  21. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Sahaswaranamam Subramanian
  22. FAQ: Project flight plan used by the ALM Rangers
  23. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Michel Perfetti
  24. Robert shows us what was involved to upgrade the ALM Treasure Map for Windows 8.1
  25. Vladimir talks about Microsoft Fakes and Team Build on his new English blog
  26. Unit Test Generator v1.1 resolves two bugs
  27. Gordon Beeming joins the Visual Studio ALM Ranger 2013 Champions
  28. Ranger Flash – September 2013
  29. Building a Release Pipeline with Team Foundation Server 2012
  30. The hunt for stealth tasks … what happened to my task on the TFS task board?
  31. Testing Mobile Applications using Perfecto Mobile's MobileCloud
  32. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Dave McKinstry
  33. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – João Paulo Rodrigues
  34. ALM Rangers Triage #5 - What happened to your idea in UserVoice?
  35. Planning your TFS deployment for TFS 2013 with the latest planning guide
  36. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Marcus Fernandez
  37. Practical guidance on the concepts of DevOps, continuous delivery and release management
  38. Ranger Flash – August 2013
  39. Branching and Merging Guide … are we on track with our strategies?
  40. ALM Rangers ship the Unit Test Generator v1 … now what?
  41. Francisco adds Spanish Poster to ALM Assessment Community Content
  42. Planning and Upgrade teams would appreciate your candid feedback!
  43. ¿Habla Español? … Testing Unitario con Microsoft® Fakes
  44. ALM Rangers Flight Plan … at your mouse click!
  45. Status on the new eBook re-styling for ALM Ranger Guides
  46. Take some time to listen to a great song by the the Illustrators - Make Love!
  47. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Edward Fry
  48. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Mohideen Abdul Kader Sandhu Muzafargani
  49. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Bryon Root
  50. Exploring the Unit Test Generator VS Extension v1.RC Feedback and Bug Resolutions
  51. TFS Planning Guide updated with new style and content fixes
  52. Richard Hundhausen adds value and a sprinkle of fun to the ALM community
  53. Gearing up for the new crisper ALM Ranger guides, which will evolve into eBooks in future
  54. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Yang Zheng
  55. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Nirav Khandhedia
  56. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Evgeniy Berenshtein
  57. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Ben Roscorla
  58. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Amit Gupta
  59. ALM Readiness Treasure Map v2.1 and vNext Feature Triage
  60. Ranger Flash – July 2013
  61. New device testing and DevOps posters spotted in VDC :)
  62. TFS Upgrade Guide updated and next version is taking off
  63. Are the ALM Rangers for me and vice versa?
  64. How to draw an ALM Readiness Treasure Map shipmate
  65. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Bijan Javidi
  66. Exploring the Unit Test Generator VS Extension v1.RC
  67. Treasure Map under the bonnet (hood) #7 … Keeping Track
  68. 7 years of VSTS –> Visual Studio ALM Rangers history … a la shirts
  69. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Ranjit Gupta
  70. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Kiran Kumar Grandhe
  71. Ranger Flash – June 2013
  72. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Osmar Landin
  73. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Takeo Hoyama
  74. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Gordon Beeming
  75. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers - Malcolm Hyson
  76. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers - Kiran Kumar Dodda
  77. Microsoft Visual Studio ALM Readiness Treasure Map v2 Privacy Statement
  78. Treasure Map under the bonnet (hood) #6 … News Island
  79. Unplugged from Italy
  80. Treasure Map under the bonnet (hood) #5 … Finishing touches, but not yet finished!
  81. ALM Rangers Dogfooding – Epics are being assimilated into Features
  82. June 14th Day of Caring – Camp Jubilee
  83. Treasure Map under the bonnet (hood) #4 … Data Binding
  84. RangerTalk - What's new and exciting in .NET 4.5 and Visual Studio 2012, by Robert MacLean
  85. Announcing the Unit Test Generator Visual Studio Extension BETA
  86. Extending Visual Studio Team Explorer 2012 + MyHistory Extension Article by Mike Fourie
  87. Rangers Flash – May 2013
  88. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Sumeet Deshpande
  89. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Bipin Puthiyaveetil
  90. Better Unit Testing with Microsoft Fakes Guide a la mobi and epub
  91. Unit Testing Delay Signed Assemblies on the Hosted TFS Build Service
  92. Let us talk about “Quality Bars”
  93. Treasure Map under the bonnet (hood) #3 … Windows 8 Layout Controls (Update)
  94. Visual Studio ALM Ranger Solutions Catalogue (aka.ms/vsarsolutions)
  95. Treasure Map under the bonnet (hood) #2 … Windows 8 Styling
  96. What has changed in the home of the ALM Rangers during FY13?
  97. Unit Test Generator under the bonnet (hood) … aka vsarUnitTestFx
  98. Localised videos for Visual Studio 2012
  99. ALM Readiness Treasure Map v2 – Show what we have for Sprint 10 (April)
  100. ALM Rangers Dogfooding – Code Review and Build process
  101. ALM Rangers dogfooding journal of the Team Foundation Service
  102. How you | ALM Rangers can improve the elevator pitch
  103. What do you think of proposed User Experience (UX) ideas for ALM Readiness Treasure Map?
  104. TOC - ALM Readiness Treasure Map
  105. Why are ALM Rangers the best thing since sliced cheese with holes?
  106. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Svetlana Kostinsky
  107. ALM Rangers Triage #4 - What happened to your idea in UserVoice?
  108. Rangers Flash – March 2013
  109. Minor update to the Supporting Guidance and Whitepapers
  110. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Andrew Clear
  111. TFS Branch Tool goes “Community”
  112. Are you lost in the ALM Rangers desert?
  113. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Hamid Shahid
  114. Definition of “DONE” and knowing when it is safe to sleep peacefully
  115. Update #2 for the Team Foundation Server Word Add-in
  116. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Anna Galaeva
  117. TOC: TFS Integration Tools Field Mappings
  118. Better Unit Testing with Test Code Generation: Kick-off!
  119. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Cosmin Dumitru
  120. Program Management – eating the information overload wave bit by bit
  121. FAQ: Where are all the old and new BRDLite reference templates?
  122. Rangers Flash – February 2013
  123. ALM Rangers Triage #3 - What happened to your idea in UserVoice?
  124. Better Unit Testing with Microsoft Fakes guide … “shipped”!
  125. TFS Disaster Avoidance and Recovery Planning … “shipped”!
  126. Updates to the Test Tooling and Upgrade guides … "shipped"!
  127. How the ALM Rangers are using Visual Studio ALM … in a practical nutshell
  128. FAQ: TFSBranchTool - Could not load file or assembly SourceControlWrapper … bug?
  129. Shipped … Test Release Management Guidance update and the ALM Readiness treasure map
  130. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Javier Arguello
  131. TR16 Journal (Day T+4) – The pirates rule!
  132. TR16 Journal (Day T+3) – Everyone reaching information overload status
  133. TR16 Journal (Day T+1,2) – The first two days and phenomenal sessions are history
  134. ALM Readiness treasure map - snap it the captain says
  135. TR16 Journal (Day T-2) – Pretending to be a mushroom
  136. ALM Rangers ALM Dogfooding – What is a silent release?
  137. Thinking aloud – Is it a feature or a separate product within an initiative?
  138. TR16 Journal (Day T-4) - pre-TR16 | microSummit | ALM Summit
  139. Windows 8 keyboard cheat-sheet cover
  140. Weekly flash quiz solutions – 2013/01
  141. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Vinicius Hana
  142. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Anisha Pindoria
  143. ALM Assessment localisations for German and Portuguese communities
  144. Microsoft Services (PFE) workshops listed on ALM Readiness Treasure Map
  145. Congratulations to all the Visual Studio ALM Ranger 2013 Champions
  146. Mike Fourie wins the ALM Rangers Champion of Champions 2013 Award
  147. When do the ALM Rangers [not] ship source code–Part 9
  148. Larry Guger wins the ALM Rangers Product Owner Champion 2013 Award
  149. Joshua Weber wins the ALM Rangers Product Group Champion 2013 Award
  150. Tony Whitter wins the ALM Rangers Project Lead Champion 2013 Award
  151. Brian Blackman wins the ALM Rangers Ruck Master Champion 2013 Award!
  152. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Nicholas Hauenstein
  153. Version Control in the TFS Client Object Model - MSDN Magazine article by Jeff Bramwell

2012 162

  1. Rangers Flash – December 2012 in pictures
  2. TFSBranchTool – Two videos by a phenomenal team
  3. Weekly flash quiz solutions – 2012/12
  4. Happy holidays ALM Rangers | Community
  5. FAQ: Branching is easy, but can I merge without branching?
  6. Calling all ALM Rangers and ALM Community to capture your ideas!
  7. Calling all ALM Rangers to nominate their Champions!
  8. Rangers Flash – November 2012
  9. ALM Rangers ALM Dogfooding … dealing with bugs on tfs.visualstudio.com – Part 8
  10. Weekly flash quiz solutions – 2012/11
  11. Micheal Learned talks about the Branching guide on Channel9
  12. ALM Rangers ship update #1 for the Team Foundation Server Word Add-in
  13. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Edgar Vega Calderon
  14. ALM Rangers ALM Dogfooding … proving the new process and lifting the last confusions (we hope) – Part 7
  15. Willy’s Cave Dwelling Notes #10 – Managed Extensions Framework (MEF) … simplicity rules!
  16. FAQ - Where is the Branch Plans folder for TfsBranchTool Extension?
  17. ALM Rangers ALM Dogfooding … pondering over documentation – Part 6
  18. New book: Professional Scrum Development with Microsoft Visual Studio 2012
  19. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Suliman AlBattat
  20. ALM Rangers ALM Dogfooding, Ruck and the new TLAs – Part 5
  21. FAQ: Remote Teams and Managers … a feasible scenario?
  22. Rangers Flash – October 2012
  23. Pictures from beautiful Vancouver … eerie Halloween and autumn (fall) on the advance
  24. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Dan Marzolini
  25. FAQ - TfsBranchTool: How do I customi[s|z]e a TFS Branching scenario plan?
  26. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Stephan Dekker
  27. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Bandar Alsharfi
  28. ALM Rangers – Raising the Quality Bar for Documentation (Part 2)
  29. ALM Rangers – Raising the Quality Bar for Tooling (Part 1)
  30. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Casey O'Mara
  31. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – David Pitcher
  32. ALM Rangers Triage #2 - What happened to your idea in UserVoice?
  33. ALM Rangers ALM Dogfooding and the age of the visual board – Part 4
  34. ALM Assessments – Community Value-Add Posters “added”
  35. Visual Studio Test Tooling Guidance team posted an update
  36. Rangers Flash – September 2012
  37. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Tomas Scott
  38. A few pictures around battle star #41
  39. Extend the Project Creation Process to promote Ranger branching guidance – Sprint 3 Feedback
  40. TFS 2012 Storyboard with Kinect – Sprint 3 Feedback
  41. Master ALM Rangers Treasure Map - Sprint 3 Feedback and a Question
  42. FAQ – How can I determine which of the 100’s of ALM Ranger emails is important to “Gregg”?
  43. TOC – DemoMate Solutions
  44. Practical Kanban – Hotfix 20120924
  45. ALM Assessment – Team adds handy poster
  46. HandsOnVisualStudio … a great for and by the community initiative
  47. ALM Assessment – Team adds handy context presentation
  48. Visual Studio ALM Ranger Solutions
  49. ALM Rangers Triage #1 - What happened to your idea in UserVoice?
  50. Do you like Rap music? Please support one of the rising stars in the Vancouver community!
  51. Rangers Flash – August 2012
  52. Extraordinary ALM Ranger contributions … the tenacity, motivation and passion is phenomenal!
  53. Random Poll: What do you think of the latest Demo Factory nuggets?
  54. ALM Rangers ALM Dogfooding and the “Angst” Factor – Part 3
  55. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Tarun Arora
  56. Cowabunga! Visual Studio ALM Rangers Readiness “GIG” goes RTM!
  57. ALM Ranger solution types and a practical walkthrough of the Quick Response concept (Part 2)
  58. Rangers Flash – July 2012
  59. Willy’s Cave Dwelling Notes #8 – PowerShell
  60. ALM Ranger Readiness Solution – CodePlex Updates #2
  61. Willy’s Cave Dwelling Notes #7 – Doing technical demos (Snippets, etc.)
  62. Seattle – Day 3 … the Ranger awareness drive continues
  63. Seattle – Day 2: The Battle continues
  64. Seattle – Day 1: Presenting the blueprint
  65. ALM Ranger Readiness Solution – CodePlex Updates
  66. ALM Rangers preparing for technical event in Seattle … Pictures to follow!
  67. FAQ – How many ALM Ranger initiatives can/should I commit to?
  68. FAQ - When can I submit ideas for ALM Ranger projects?
  69. World-Wide Virtual Teams from the ALM Rangers perspective (Part 1)
  70. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Dmitry Andreev
  71. Willy’s Cave Dwelling Notes #6 – LINQ (Language Integrated Query)
  72. Submit your Visual Studio idea using UserVoice
  73. TFS Integration Tools – Issue: “This tool requires the TFS client object model”
  74. Rangers Flash – June 2012
  75. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Jesse Houwing
  76. Important URLs and our dream of 500,000 downloads
  77. Community TFS Team Tools released on CodePlex
  78. Rex Tang drives ALM Ranger guidance localization in Japan!
  79. Visual Studio Coded UI for Word Add-In v2 Sample Solution has shipped! (cross post)
  80. Highlighting the decline of ALM Rangers Cadence
  81. Was my career an accident?
  82. Rangers Flash – May 2012
  83. Seattle Central Square was eerie tonight …
  84. ALM Rangers – Quick Reference Guidance Downloads for Visual Studio 2012 RC refreshed
  85. Willy’s Cave Dwelling Notes #4 – Robert MacLean and co. poster and other gems!
  86. ALM Rangers Tips and Tricks – Willy’s view and collection of highlights and FAQ’s
  87. TOC - ALM Rangers MSDN Magazine and other publications
  88. Willy’s Cave Dwelling Notes #3 – C# … re-visiting some interesting features
  89. Willy’s Cave Dwelling Notes #2 – Windows Azure
  90. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers (aka.ms/vsarindex)
  91. Welcome to Visual Studio 2012 ALM Rangers Readiness RC “Wave”
  92. MSDN Magazine – Migrating from an On-Premise TFS to TFS Preview Using the TFS Integration Tools
  93. ALM Rangers switching to single TPC/TP and multiple Teams model … Part 2
  94. Microsoft Redmond Campus is a green paradise
  95. Micheal Learned Tours Us Around Studio 11 on .NET Rocks Internet Audio Talk Show
  96. ALM Rangers … have you noticed us in MSDN Flash?
  97. ALM Rangers … an update on our exciting journey :)
  98. Random Poll - Visual Studio ALM Ranger Guide Localization
  99. Rangers Flash – April 2012
  100. Pictures from beautiful Vancouver … an IT-less blog for a change :)
  101. ALM Rangers switching to single TPC/TP and multiple Teams model
  102. Random Poll: Visual Studio ALM Ranger eBook
  103. Have you got an idea for a new or an existing ALM Rangers solution?
  104. Friday 13th High Noon – An early BETA of the Branching Guide is released … cross post
  105. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Kurt Crowley
  106. Team Foundation Service whitepaper has shipped … cross post
  107. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Antonio Luevano
  108. TFS Integration Tools – VC Conflict “A namespace conflict has been detected” … what now?
  109. Rangers Flash – March 2012
  110. Pushing the request feedback feature to new limits as part of dogfooding
  111. Test Tooling Guides BETA has shipped … cross post
  112. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Vinicius Moura
  113. CodePlex download package organization (survey feedback)
  114. Understanding the Visual Studio ALM Rangers
  115. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Esteban Garcia
  116. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Stefan Mieth
  117. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Alexander Vanwynsberghe
  118. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Taavi Koosaar
  119. ALM Ranger MSDN pages have been refreshed … candid feedback anyone?
  120. Two ALM Ranger posters appearing in battlestar #40 and #41
  121. TOC: TFS Integration Tools Blog Posts and Reference Sites
  122. TFS Integration Tools – March 2012 Release
  123. Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Latest Blog Links
  124. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Jason Singh
  125. Visual Studio ALM Rangers Dev11 sim-ship report by Bijan Javidi
  126. ALM Quick Reference Guide BETA has shipped … cross post
  127. Two great upgrade Channel9 videos by two exceptional PMs
  128. Team Foundation Server Process Template Customization Guide BETA has shipped … cross post
  129. Rangers Flash – February 2012
  130. Visual Studio Coded UI for Word Add-In Sample Solution has shipped … cross post
  131. MVP Summit–Dust has settled and Mike had excess baggage :)
  132. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Robert Bernstein
  133. FAQ: I work in multiple projects … how can I see what I need to do at a glance?
  134. MVP Summit – The last (best) day!
  135. MVP Summit – The day of quiet … no MVPs :(
  136. MVP Summit–The day of the box of painaids
  137. Welcome our new Visual Studio ALM Ranger Champions and the (UN)HIDE button
  138. Visual Studio 11 ALM Rangers Readiness “BETA” wave rolled this morning!
  139. MVP Summit – The day of the (UN)HIDE button
  140. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Anil Chandra Lingam
  141. Quick Poll Results – Which publication channel and document format should we use?
  142. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Hansjoerg Scherer
  143. Visual Studio ALM Rangers Transparency – Clarifying the processes: Release (Part 3)
  144. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Krithika Sambamoorthy
  145. TechReady 14 Report … T+4–Final Day Report from Willy’s perspective
  146. How the Visual Studio ALM Rangers use Team Foundation Service to Get Ready for Visual Studio 11
  147. TechReady 14 Report … T+3 – The best ever TR session happened today!
  148. Rangers Flash - January 2012
  149. TechReady 14 Report … T+2–Beyond BRDLite and Architecture
  150. Visual Studio ALM Rangers Transparency – Clarifying the processes: Guidance (Part 2)
  151. TechReady 14 Report … T+1 – Four ALM Ranger Sessions dominated the day
  152. TechReady 14 Report … T+0 - Day 1 was focused on Ruck and Quick Reference Guidance
  153. TechReady 14 Report … T-1 days and getting nervous
  154. TechReady 14 Report … T-3 days and a going back to the future
  155. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – William Salazar
  156. AIT TeamSystemPro Team has released a new version of our AIT Dependency Manager to the Community
  157. New version of Skype and Messenger providers … Nico Orschel was busy over Christmas :)
  158. ALM Rangers Sabbatical #4 – Focusing on the Coded UI Word Add-In
  159. Picture(s) of the Week … 12 … Beautiful Canada!
  160. Oh those acronyms/heteronyms … what are the ACV, ABE, ATE and CEO TLAs all about?
  161. ALM Rangers Visual Studio 11 Readiness – Part 5: A small peek at the upcoming Build Customization and “Tooling” Guidance (ATE)
  162. Picture(s) of the Week … 11

2011 237

  1. Rangers Flash - December 2011
  2. ALM Ranger Champions – Willy’s nominations!
  3. ALM Rangers Visual Studio 11 Readiness – Part 4: A small peek at the upcoming Lab Management Guidance
  4. A happy and safe festive season and holiday everyone!
  5. ALM Rangers Visual Studio 11 Readiness – Part 3: A small peek at the upcoming TFS Upgrade Guidance
  6. ALM Rangers Visual Studio 11 Readiness – Part 2: A small peek at the upcoming TFS Branching and Merging Guidance
  7. ALM Rangers Visual Studio 11 Readiness – Part1: A small peek at the upcoming TFS Planning Guide
  8. Picture(s) of the Week … 10 “Owl”
  9. Picture(s) of the Week … 9 “Eagle”
  10. Picture(s) of the Week … 8
  11. Why we believe in dogfooding …
  12. MSDN Magazine Articles by the ALM Rangers
  13. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Rex Tang
  14. Picture(s) of the Week … 7
  15. Rangers Flash – November 2011
  16. Team Foundation Server – Trying to understand Server versus Local Workspaces
  17. Applying to formatting hotfixes to ALM Rangers guidance … and subtle caution for next wave of guidance!
  18. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Tony Whitter
  19. Two events that introduce anomalies even into “Swiss” project planning
  20. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Prasanna Ramkumar
  21. Visual Studio 11 Readiness Initiatives – Driven by Epics, Personas and Customer Types
  22. Visual Studio 11 Test Drive – Another great day @ the battle star :)
  23. Requirements Management for Ranger Projects – What I wish we did differently with our Team Projects
  24. TFS Integration Tools – Why does guidance state that TFS supports directory level branching? Is this an error?
  25. Team Foundation Server on Windows Azure … Rucking along and visualizing the good, the bad and the ugly
  26. Program Management – Are some of the ALM Rangers Symbiotic PM’s?
  27. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Roy Robertson
  28. Picture(s) of the Week … 6
  29. TFS Integration Tools – In the land of the rising sun :)
  30. Picture(s) of the Week … 5
  31. Rangers Flash – October 2011
  32. Oct 31st … Halloween … we are going to have a great day today :)
  33. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Enrico Antonacci
  34. Vancouver Development Center “Caring Day” - Stanley Park Ecology Society
  35. Program Management – Thinking about PM != PM and Visual Studio ALM Rangers (Part 2)
  36. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – John Spinella
  37. TFS Integration Tools – Can I migrate all work items from one team project collection to another?
  38. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Hosam Kamel
  39. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Babu George Padamadan
  40. (External) Visual Studio ALM Ranger Champions 2011.2 are known! Cowabunga!
  41. Visual Studio Architecture Tooling Guidance – How important is the guidance extension?
  42. Calling all Visual Studio ALM MVPs and Rangers … nominate and support your “champions”
  43. Have I reached a design epiphany or am I finally lost in outer orbit?
  44. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Lennart Jansson
  45. Rangers Flash – September 2011
  46. Team Foundation Server Team Project Guidance … we have a phenomenal team!
  47. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Mario Contreras
  48. Picture(s) of the Week … 3
  49. Understanding our Visual Studio 11 Readiness conspiracy
  50. Mike releases Controller Vocabulary 1.5.3
  51. Latest readiness adventure Part 6 … the complete picture
  52. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Pierre Donyegro
  53. Latest readiness adventure Part 5 … more newcomers
  54. Communications … common sense, challenges and objectives (mine)
  55. Latest readiness adventure Part 4 … welcome Process Guidance initiatives
  56. Picture(s) of the week
  57. Latest readiness adventure Part 3 … embracing and upgrading recent solutions
  58. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Tina Erwee
  59. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Charles Sterling “Chuck”
  60. Visual Studio ALM Rangers - Reflections on Virtual Teams
  61. Latest readiness adventure Part 2 … Team Foundation Server Upgrade Guidance
  62. Visual Studio ALM Rangers recently called it a daunting but exciting adventure … what’s coming?
  63. Mapping Team Foundation Server Process Templates, example Agile 4.3 to Agile 5.0
  64. Rangers Flash - August 2011
  65. TFS Integration Tools - Where does one start? … part 1b (pre-requisites)
  66. FWLinks – Visual Studio 11 Readiness “Gig” Under Construction
  67. TFS Integration Tools – Why would I get the “TFSIP Worker Process Group” message?
  68. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Fabio Stawinski
  69. Bill Heys does it again … Worldwide Lead for the ALM Community within Microsoft
  70. This is why working for DevX Customer and Project Management team is fun :)
  71. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Ariel Gur-Arieh
  72. TFS Integration Tools – What can I specify for the SQL Server when installing?
  73. Lab Management Guide (AHE) … which Epics should we be considering for v2?
  74. Architecture Tooling Guide (ABE) … which Epics should we be considering for v3?
  75. Build Customization Guide (ATE) … which Epics should we be considering for v2?
  76. TFS Projects Best Practices (ACV) … Which Epics should we be considering for this likely new project?
  77. TFS Integration Tools – How do I use the Clear Case Selected History Adapter?
  78. TFS Integration Tools – How do I define user mappings for version control using the SVN adapter?
  79. Back from Osoyoos … what an IT-less, tranquil and beautiful desert :)
  80. Willy’s Cave to go silent for a few days … goodbye digital world :)
  81. Controlled Vocab 1.5 – Mike Fourie announces the latest “beauty”
  82. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Clemens Reijnen
  83. Rangers July 2011 Flash
  84. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Jim Szubryt
  85. Visual Studio ALM Rangers Sabbatical – Bob shares his views
  86. TechReady 13 Journal: T+3 Day 3-4 (Collaboration rules …)
  87. Getting Started with IBM Rational to Team Foundation Server (TFS) Migrations
  88. TechReady 13 Journal: T+1 Day 2 (Trimming the branches)
  89. TechReady 13 Journal: T-0 Day 1 (We had the first “strange” Ranger session today)
  90. TechReady 13 Journal: T-1 days (HTML5 pre-event adventure)
  91. TFS Integration Tools – How can I find the unique ID for the SessionGroup and Session?
  92. TechReady 13 Journal: T-2 days (Leaving VC)
  93. TechReady 13 … pencil the Ranger sessions into your calendar!
  94. Coffee Talk: Scrum versus Kanban ... a gem of a session!
  95. What does a Ruck Master look like?
  96. We would like you to re-use and adapt the Rangers Solutions, “but” …
  97. Random Poll: Build Customization Guide vNext
  98. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Daniel Meixner
  99. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – John Jacob
  100. BRDLite 1.0 Hands-on Lab – Glitches which are not for the faint hearted :)
  101. Extending BRDLite and implementing the Build Report custom activity … phenomenal!
  102. Visual Studio ALM Rangers have spoken on the FY12 project candidates and the new process
  103. Why is BRDLite called *Lite?
  104. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Abhimanyu Singhal
  105. TFS Integration Tools – Understanding the default templates
  106. Visual Studio ALM Rangers Infrastructure – Working Group Objectives … we have a dream!
  107. TFS Integration Tools – I only migrated VC … can I migrate WIT afterwards and maintain relationships?
  108. Lab Management and the VM Factory … a symbiotic relationship and what’s to come
  109. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Micheal Learned
  110. TFS Integration Tools – How long will it take to migrate X GB VC/WIT data?
  111. Canada Day, 4th July, 2.5 Years in VC
  112. TFS Integration Tools – Why is ReflectedWorkItemId not working? (Bug 690647)
  113. Francisco keeping the Spanish community informed with passion!
  114. Rangers June 2011 Flash
  115. What the Visual Studio ALM Rangers “voiced” in the FY11 Satisfaction Survey
  116. BRDLite Build Reference Template – Hotfix 1 has been posted
  117. Random Poll: Favourite format for Visual Studio ALM Rangers guidance?
  118. Random Poll: Your favourite Visual Studio ALM Rangers infrastructure
  119. Another great cheat sheet by Robert
  120. As always the latest guidance includes “visual” quick reference posters
  121. Use(full|less) information on latest Visual Studio ALM Ranger projects
  122. TFS Integration Tools – “out of memory exception” now what?
  123. External Ranger Guideline Checklist
  124. AHE – Visual Studio Lab Management uses the VM Factory
  125. We have shipped … Visual Studio Lab Management Guidance
  126. TOC: Lab Management Guide Blog Posts and Reference Sites
  127. TOC: Build Customization Guide Blog Posts and Reference Sites
  128. Virtualization Machine (VM) Factory – Getting Started with your own factory
  129. Virtualization Machine (VM) Factory – Problem: Errors were reported after the execution of a task sequence
  130. Virtualization Machine (VM) Factory – Problem: After booting from the WinPE ISO, MDT complains that it cannot reach the deployment share
  131. Embracing Channel9 … with exciting a-la-Brian features coming :)
  132. TOC: Virtual Machine (VM) Factory
  133. Visual Studio ALM Rangers – 5 Year Report … sharing the essentials
  134. TOC: Architecture Tooling Guidance
  135. Ranger Solutions in FY11 … the team has been busy with blog and projects
  136. Random Poll: What is an "acceptable time" to make a phone call after hours?
  137. TOC: TFS Iteration Automation Blog Posts and Reference Sites
  138. Build Release Deploy (BRDLite) … what is it?
  139. FAQ (3) Why does it take so long to ship a Rangers Guidance project?
  140. Visual Studio ALM Rangers Champion Awards
  141. FAQ (2) about the Visual Studio ALM Rangers … Core/Extended/External? … Why Surveys?
  142. Rangers TFS Iteration Automation – Transparent Design Ramblings
  143. Rangers May 2011 Flash
  144. Tour of Vancouver Island with Bob during his Rangers Sabbatical
  145. Visual Studio ALM Rangers … “5” Years already? … the highlights :)
  146. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Danny Crone
  147. TFS Integration Tools – Where does one start? … part 4 (Mapping users the easy way)
  148. TFS Integration Tools -Why is my user value mapping only working partially? Q&A-54
  149. TFS Integration Tools – Where does one start? … part 3 (dust has settled …. did it work?)
  150. TFS Integration Tools – Where does one start? … part 2 (try a simple migration)
  151. TFS Integration Tools – Where does one start? … part 1 (documentation)
  152. External Ranger Champions 2011.1 and “the” Champion of Champions are announced!
  153. Rangers Lab Management Guide (AHE) enters BETA phase
  154. Visual Studio Tooling Guidance … have you noticed the videos?
  155. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Brian Minisi
  156. Sharing is caring .. MCDC supports the community!
  157. Rangers April 2011 Flash
  158. Rangers Build Customization Guide (ATE) enters BETA phase
  159. Daniel Oliveira published an article in the Mundo.net magazine
  160. TFS Integration Tools … how do I call for support? Q&A-53
  161. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Giulio Vian
  162. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Chandana N. Athauda
  163. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Mike Douglas
  164. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Lukasz Gratkowski
  165. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Ryan Frazier
  166. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – David Scruggs
  167. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Jeroen Quakernaat
  168. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Geoff Gray
  169. Build Customization Guidance … Build Report anyone?
  170. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Mark Brown
  171. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Sung Jae Kang
  172. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Jahangeer Mohammed
  173. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Vladimir Gusarov
  174. Where are the imminent Rangers projects really?
  175. TFS Integration Tools – Why can I not use more than one @@MISSINGFIELD@@? QA-52
  176. Architecture Tooling Guidance Version 2.1 (ABE) is Available
  177. Small tweak on the Rangers MSDN landing page … what else can we improve?
  178. Ranger Champions .. it is time to vote again!
  179. Known Feature Builder Issue, which affects Rangers Architecture Tooling Guidance
  180. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Claudio Leite
  181. Ruck’ing along … what have I learned from more than six months of dog fooding?
  182. Pondering over solution download trends … with three imminent releases lurking behind the horizon
  183. Pepper: A Visual Studio Settings Synchronisation & Backup Extension
  184. MSDN Article – Visual Studio TFS Team Project and Collection Guidance
  185. Under construction – FWLINK
  186. Team Foundation Server Integration Tools (March 2011 Release)
  187. AHE and ATE in the final phase of review … a huge THANK YOU to the phenomenal teams!
  188. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Mattias Sköld
  189. External Rangers were asked about the recognition program … and the results are?
  190. Architecture Guidance – A glimpse of what is imminent :)
  191. TFS Integration Tools – Can I use snapshots and catch-up for both VC and WIT? QA-51
  192. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Martin Kulov
  193. TFS Integration Tools – Why ServerDiff may not work for me. Q&A-50
  194. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Kris Lankford
  195. Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance Refresh– Capacity Planning Poster
  196. Where do I start as a new or re-assimilating Visual Studio ALM Ranger?
  197. Getting to grips with my pet hate … statistics … and looking at Rangers Recognition Program results
  198. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Thomas Schissler
  199. Listening to the external Rangers … New project nomination process is first of many new innovations
  200. Project Management Lingo … funny but true
  201. Is “relaxing like a mushroom” a colloquialism?
  202. Rangers February 2011 Flash
  203. MVP Summit 2011 – Day 3 and 4 Pictures
  204. Rangers “Lessons Learnt” Part 1 – Acknowledging the challenges and trying some antidotes
  205. IDesign: Germany and UK Summer 2011 Events
  206. MVP Summit 2011 – MVP2MVP2
  207. Another ALM Ranger joins the ALM MVPs … welcome Bob!
  208. Session at Southpointe Academy - The Coolest Career in the World!
  209. TFS Integration Tools – Why are some of my Rational ClearCase files missing after a migration to TFS? Q&A-49
  210. Rangers Awareness Sessions – What would be interesting 2U?
  211. New Rangers Project – TFS Iteration Automation
  212. TFS Integration Tools – Why can I only see TFS2010 adapters? Q&A-48
  213. Rangers Lab Management Guide – Status Update: ALPHA Release under magnifying glass
  214. TFS Integration Tools – How can I check which side of the migration will be affected? Q&A-47
  215. New Ranger Project – Branching Guidance 2010 v2
  216. TFS Integration Tools – Which Rational ClearCase adapter should I select? Q&A-46
  217. Rangers January 2011 Flash … better late than never :)
  218. TFS Integration Tools – What is this VC conflict resolution all about? Q&A-45
  219. TFS Integration Tools – How do I map users between domains or systems? Q&A-44
  220. MSDN Article – TFS Branching and Merging Guidance
  221. TFS Integration Platform – Data Driven Subscription Reporting a la Grant
  222. Course 50430: Administering Team Foundation Server 2010
  223. Rangers Build Customization Guide – Status Update: ALPHA Release under magnifying glass
  224. Rangers Guidance Localizations … Sprechen Sie Deutsch? … ¿Habla Español?
  225. Rangers Architecture Guidance–Spanish … Francisco does it yet again!
  226. Rangers Architecture Guidance–Minor Refresh
  227. Why are my WIT Links not migrating? Q&A-43 Part II
  228. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Anthony Borton
  229. TFS Integration Field Mapping Tool
  230. FAQ (2) – What is the Rangers HOL Package all about?
  231. TFS Integration Tools – Why are my WIT Links not migrating? Q&A-43
  232. Requirements Management Guidance … where is the feature work item type?
  233. Twitter … here we go!
  234. FAQ (1) about the Visual Studio ALM Rangers
  235. Note to self: Before rebooting a machine remotely, triple check environment! A comedy of errors …
  236. TFS Integration Tools – I updated the session configuration … why are my newly added work item types not migrating? Q&A-42
  237. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers - Shawn Cicoria

2010 304

  1. Rangers … what’s up? - December highlights
  2. Back in the trenches … a few pictures from the Yukon “paradise”
  3. Going AWOL and heading North … see you on December 27th
  4. Interested in a career with Microsoft? Check out Buck’s blog post!
  5. TFS Integration Tools – Why are my field mappings only working one way? Q&A-41
  6. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Paul Meyer (Our VMFactory Master)
  7. Looking for in-the-field-experience for Rangers Guidance FAQ
  8. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Eric Golpe
  9. Visual Studio 2010 RTM Virtual Machine Refresh Available
  10. Visual Studio ALM Rangers – November Highlights
  11. Visual Studio 2010 – Service Pack 1 Beta News
  12. Zayd will literally fall over … the old man has just replaced his Motorola phone with a Windows Smart Phone
  13. Rangers WCF Load test tool … a great walkthrough by the UK Solutions Development Team of Microsoft Consulting Services!
  14. Requirements Management for Ranger Projects Team/Personas and Epic/User Stories … some slides
  15. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Richard Fennell
  16. Rangers WCF Load test tool … latest version published to Codeplex!
  17. TFS Integration Platform Documentation Refreshed on Codeplex (December Base)
  18. It never snows in Vancouver … really?
  19. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Manuel Boendel
  20. Rangers Wall of Scrum project has been cancelled … a sensible and responsible decision
  21. TFS Integration Tools–New Build 31118.00 on Codeplex for the Early Adopters!
  22. Considering a migrating from IBM Rational ClearCase to TFS? Strategies, terminology and gremlins …
  23. Nugget blog post: Integrating Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 and SharePoint (SP) Server 2010 when on Separate Server Machines
  24. TFS Integration Platform Documentation Refreshed on Codeplex
  25. Visual Studio ALM Rangers – October Highlights
  26. Avoiding the annoying “PLEASE COMPLETE SUBJECT” subjects when using the Controlled Vocabulary Widget
  27. TFS Integration Platform – Troubleshooting an unhappy migration world
  28. TFS Integration Platform – Planning a migration … starting with a solid foundation
  29. TFS Integration Platform – New Migration templates for SfTS Team Project Process Template
  30. Understanding Reviews … and avoiding the awful, frustrating, apocalyptic and unintended reactions
  31. TFS Integration Tools – Can we migrate Test Cases? Q&A-40
  32. UNISA Chatter – Operating System Concepts: Part 16 ... Page Replacement revisited
  33. Requirements Management for Ranger Projects … Epics, Team and Personas
  34. TechED 2010 South-Africa – Announcing the Zune Winner
  35. UNISA Chatter – Operating System Concepts: Part 15 ... Deadlock avoidance analysis revisited
  36. TFS Integration Tools – Are labels supported now? Q&A-39
  37. TFS Integration Tools – What is the new CQQueryTimeDelimiter all about? Q&A-38
  38. UNISA Chatter – Operating System Concepts: Part 14 ... Scheduling Algorithm Analysis Revisited
  39. Grant gets his own tag on the Rangers blog … to unearth all his invaluable nuggets
  40. UNISA Chatter – Operating System Concepts: Part 14 ... Scheduling Revisited
  41. TFS Integration Tools – Why are the timestamps and changeset IDs not moving from source to target? Q&A-37
  42. Coded UI Guide – Another new Rangers project is launched
  43. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Willy-Peter Schaub
  44. How Rangers laid 56’000km virtual copper cable to TechED session in South-Africa
  45. Ruck and using the Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 Process Template … Part 2
  46. Rangers Build Customization Guide … meet the core and feature area leads!
  47. Ruck and using the Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 Process Template
  48. TechED 2010 South-Africa … meet the MVPs, the Rangers and win a “Zune” :)
  49. A beautiful morning in Vancouver
  50. Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Monitoring Management Pack for SCOM 2007 Ships!
  51. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers - Daniel Oliveira
  52. Ruck … Ups and Downs in the Rangers Backyard
  53. UNISA Chatter – Design Patterns in C++ Part 11: Patterns … Singleton versus Monostate
  54. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Silfarney Wallace Ferreira
  55. Lab Management Personas – a sneak preview and a call for feedback
  56. Rangers – Lab Management Guide: Rough(necks) Notes #5 … Stepping through the scenarios
  57. External Ranger Champions … we have counted the votes and here are the champions!
  58. Branching Guidance goes Spanish
  59. Visual Studio ALM Rangers – September Highlights
  60. Rangers – Lab Management Guide: Rough(necks) Notes #4 … Using the Walkthrough VHD
  61. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Lars Roith
  62. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Michael Fourie, also known as Mike
  63. Rangers – Lab Management Guide: Rough(necks) Notes #3 … Setting up an environment for a mobile Lab Rat
  64. Visual Studio Architecture Tooling Guidance … Refresh 1.1 kicking-off on Monday
  65. How do I find the Visual Studio ALM Rangers “Nuggets”?
  66. TFS Integration Platform … Should I use field name of reference name when defining field maps? Q&A-36
  67. Cool tools “nuggets” developed by MVPs/External Rangers … part 1
  68. Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance – Spanish Refresh Available
  69. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Francisco Fagas
  70. Agile, Scrum, Ruck … transforming the Rangers ecosystem
  71. TFS Integration Platform – which configuration template should I use? Q&A-35
  72. Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guide … getting rid of the unnecessary download complexity and clutter
  73. Team Foundation Server – Scrum Reports Failing “for some” team members
  74. If you have problems with TFS or Visual Studio flush the user cache … or not?
  75. Team Build Customization Guide – New Rangers project, codename African Tawny Eagle (ATE)
  76. Rangers – Lab Management Guide: Rough(necks) Notes #2
  77. Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Important Quick Reference Guidance and VM Factory update
  78. Chatter … Aviation and Eagles … for those wondering where the Eagle Codenames in recent Rangers project are coming from :)
  79. Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Roles … dusting off some cobwebs and uncertainties
  80. TFS Power Tools September 2010 – It is fresh off the press and solves one of our Rangers HOL headaches
  81. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Stuart Preston
  82. Rangers – Lab Management Guide: Rough(necks) Notes #1
  83. Architecture Models … to branch or not to branch
  84. TFS Integration Platform – Codeplex refreshed with new documentation
  85. Rangers Wall of Scrum – New Project
  86. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Rui Melo
  87. TFS Integration … Platform or Tools or both?
  88. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Brian Keller
  89. African Hawk Eagle (Rangers Lab Management Guide) – The “team”
  90. Outlook 2010 … neat feature to delete cached user details
  91. Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Tackling Lab Management a la “Ruck”
  92. Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Visual Studio Database Guide “ships” … Cowabunga!
  93. TFS Integration Tools – How can I validate that a migration or sync is working? Q&A-34
  94. TFS Integration Tools – IBM Rational ClearQuest to TFS Migration Overview Video
  95. TFS Integration Tools (Platform) … The world of TFS Project Template (Agile, Scrum) migrations – Part 3
  96. TFS Integration Tools (Platform) … The world of TFS Project Template (MSF Agile v4 to v5) migrations – Part 2
  97. UNISA Chatter – Design Patterns in C++ Part 10: Final Assignment
  98. TFS Integration Tools (Platform) … The world of TFS Project Template migrations - Part 1
  99. The Eagles “Rosie” and “Nicola” … flying high!
  100. Branching and Team Project Guidance … looking for “your” input!
  101. VM Factory … overview video and how-to slides posted
  102. TOC: “Tags” a la acronyms … what do they all mean?
  103. TFS Integration Tools – Code Gallery, Codeplex … huh? What is the correct channel to watch?
  104. TFS Integration Platform … after much dog fooding, the first fully supported product has been released
  105. Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Architecture Tooling Guidance Refresh
  106. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Sin Min Lee (our very own Vader)
  107. TFS Integration Platform … why can I not create a filterpair in the TFS Integration program? Q&A-33
  108. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – André Dias
  109. Visual Studio TFS Branching Guidance 2010 – German translation available!
  110. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Marcel de Vries
  111. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Alan Wills
  112. Phenomenal I(for integrated)DE based training material, based on Feature Builder 1.0
  113. Generate Dependency Graph – Analyzers … what are they?
  114. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Steven Lange
  115. Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance – Minor refresh posted
  116. New Team Collection Planning Quick Reference Poster in “Spanish”
  117. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Bill Heys
  118. Venturing into consolidated (integrated) guidance using Feature Builder
  119. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Ted Malone
  120. Visual Studio 2010 Guidance – What’s changed and what’s coming?
  121. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Boris Wehrle
  122. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Russell Webster
  123. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Hassan Fadili
  124. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Sven Hubert
  125. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – David Caufield
  126. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Neno Loje
  127. New Team Collection Planning Quick Reference Poster
  128. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Mathias Olausson
  129. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Larry Guger
  130. TFS 2010 Capacity Planning Poster – Refresh Posted
  131. Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance – Available in Spanish!
  132. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Etienne Tremblay
  133. Rangers Solutions … why the heck are we publishing on Codeplex?
  134. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Thorsten Dralle
  135. Alexander Schaub … our son, brother and “champ” remembered
  136. Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Architecture Guidance gets “thumbs up”
  137. TFS Integration Platform - “EnableValidation” does it make more sense?
  138. Visual Studio ALM Rangers Chatter … why I believe in the Rangers!
  139. UNISA Chatter – Operating System Concepts: Part 13 … Distributed Systems
  140. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Brian Blackman
  141. Rangers Solutions … download trivia June 2010 … #1+3 = Branching Guidance
  142. TFS Integration Platform – BETA Codeplex refresh 2010-06-22
  143. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – James Pickell
  144. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Tim Star
  145. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Jeff Bramwell
  146. TFPT.EXE CreateTeamProject – Gremlin 0x8001010A … under observation
  147. UNISA Chatter – Operating System Concepts: Part 12 … Security
  148. Visual Studio ALM … stepping through Brian’s HOLs (Part 6) – Testing
  149. WCF Load Test Tool Update
  150. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers – Bob Hardister
  151. Introducing the Visual Studio ALM Rangers - Rob Jarratt
  152. TFS Integration Platform – Great blog series covering custom adapter development
  153. Visual Studio ALM … stepping through Brian’s HOLs (Part 5) – Debugging “IntelliTrace”
  154. TFS Integration Platform … why you should avoid narrow queries! Q&A-32
  155. Visual Studio ALM … stepping through Brian’s HOLs (Part 4) – Branch Visualization
  156. Visual Studio ALM … stepping through Brian’s HOLs (Part 3) – Class Coupling
  157. UNISA Chatter – Operating System Concepts: Part 11 … File System Concepts
  158. TFS Integration Platform – Documentation Refresh on Codeplex
  159. Visual Studio ALM … stepping through Brian’s HOLs (Part 2) – Code Discovery
  160. UNISA Chatter – Design Patterns in C++ Part 9: Patterns Revisited
  161. Visual Studio ALM … stepping through Brian’s HOLs and creating a DRAFT checklist (Part 1)
  162. UNISA Chatter – Operating System Concepts: Part 10 … File System Interface
  163. Visual Studio 2010 Feature Packs … “Cowabunga” … get them hot off the press
  164. Visual Studio 2010 Pro Power Tools … one of the “must have” extensions
  165. TFS Integration Platform – Second BETA Published
  166. TFS Integration Platform – Snapshot … migrating only partial state
  167. UNISA Chatter – Design patterns in C++ Part 8: Reflection using QT
  168. VM Factory … creating consistent VMs with minimal effort. Would you like to know more?
  169. A treasure map for TFS and Visual Studio Quick Reference Posters from the Rangers
  170. Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Guidance – What is a 4+1 View?
  171. TFS Integration Platform – How do I build my own adapter?
  172. Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Guidance – Why are we talking about two types of sequence diagrams?
  173. TFS Integration Platform – What Are Addins? Q&A-31
  174. TFS Integration Platform – You asked for more documentation … it ships with the product!
  175. Help us define the top customer tasks in the ALM space
  176. TFS Integration Platform – What are some of the gotchas? Q&A-30
  177. What is this blog actually all about?
  178. TFS Integration Platform – New Build Published on Codeplex
  179. TFS Integration Platform – SharePoint Samples and Sabbatical Initiative “Shipped”
  180. Visual Studio ALM Rangers Guidance for Visual Studio 2010 in Spanish?
  181. Feature Builder … some really cool nuggets on Codeplex and remembering a deprecated HOL
  182. Certified Scrum Master Course … some photos that just emerged from the course.
  183. Using the Visual Studio 2010 Power Tools and PowerShell to reduce the brain-numbing setup work
  184. External Visual Studio ALM Rangers - the votes have been tallied and the 2010 Champions are (have been) known
  185. Visual Studio 2010 Virtualization and VM Factory … creating your own factory
  186. Visual Studio 2010 Virtualization and VM Factory
  187. TFS Integration Platform – Can I map a WIT source field to multiple target fields? Q&A-29
  188. TFS Integration Platform – Goes “BETA”
  189. External Visual Studio ALM Rangers embarking on ambitious localization project to increase value of Rangers Guidance
  190. TFS Integration Platform – Major Codeplex refresh!
  191. TFS Integration Platform – What is the configuration tag EnableLastRevisionAutoCorrection all about? Q&A-28
  192. UNISA Chatter – Design patterns in C++ Part 7: Parsing XML using QT
  193. Basics of Scrum … Part 3: What are the scrum artefacts and how will the Rangers use them?
  194. Basics of Scrum … Part 2: What are the scrum time boxes and how will we use them in our the distributed, virtual and part-time world?
  195. UNISA Chatter – Design patterns in C++ Part 6: Widgets … Validation and Regular Expressions using QT
  196. UNISA Chatter – Design patterns in C++ Part 5: Multi-Threading with QT
  197. TFS Integration Platform – Alpha Release (c/s 43361) refreshed
  198. Basics of scrum … Part 1: What are the scrum roles and how do the fit in with the Rangers?
  199. UNISA Chatter – Formal Logic: Propositional Logic Conditional Symbols
  200. Rangers Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance – Refreshed Again
  201. A pre-amble to the basics of Scrum
  202. Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance Refreshed to include latest Scrum Quick Reference Poster
  203. Attending a Scrum master training course … an event that started some critical thinking at the back of my mind - Part 2/2
  204. UNISA Chatter – Operating System Concepts: Part 9 … Virtual Memory
  205. Attending a Scrum master training course … an event that started some critical thinking at the back of my mind - Part 1/2
  206. TFS Integration Platform – What is the Lookup Service? Q&A-27 Errata 1
  207. Rangers – Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance Refreshed!
  208. Rangers – Visual Studio Virtualization and VM Factory Guidance Refreshed!
  209. Rangers Guidance – We will be introducing a radically new landscape for ALM Guidance … is it the correct one?
  210. TFS Integration Platform – What is the Lookup Service? Q&A-27
  211. Reminder of the table of contents (treasure maps) included on the Rangers blog
  212. TFS Integration Platform – What is the EnableInsertReflectedWorkItemId that I noticed in logfiles all about? Q&A-26
  213. Visual Studio ALM Rangers embracing the exciting new Visual Studio 2010 Product with Practical Guidance
  214. What do you get when a South-African and Swiss family celebrates Easter in Canada?
  215. TFS Integration Platform – Is TFS 2005 supported? Question & Answer 25
  216. Better Coding with Visual Studio 2010, by Doug Turnure
  217. Visual Studio 2010 Performance Testing Quick Reference Guide has been updated!
  218. Rangers TFS 2010 Branching Guidance – Minor refresh of content
  219. UNISA Chatter – Operating System Concepts: Part 8 … Memory
  220. TFS Integration Platform – Why am I getting a “Conflict Type:VC path not mapped conflict type” Question & Answer 24
  221. Sidekicks and TFS 2010 RC? No problem …
  222. Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance – Documentation Notice Update
  223. TFS Integration Platform – Documentation Update Notification
  224. Photos from our technology event … a view into a serious event, where we tried to inject fun
  225. Rangers – An amazing TFS Requirements Management 2010 Guidance refresh on Codeplex
  226. Rangers Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 Capacity Planning Poster Refreshed
  227. UNISA Chatter – Design patterns in C++ Part 4: Widgets … getting started with the QT User Interface
  228. TFS Integration Platform … am I stuck (doomed) with XML files and the Migration Console application? Question & Answer 23
  229. What do you get when you throw a large number of developers in a room?
  230. The Rangers Virtualisation Session #2, an event mixed with imagination, excitement and avid chalk&talking
  231. Just before TechReady 10 the Schaubs-1 take a day off … enjoying the beauty of Vancouver Island
  232. TFS Integration Platform – Getting Started with a slightly revised hands-on-lab (HOL)
  233. Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Guidance – Are we on the right track with our scenarios and diagrams?
  234. TFS Integration Platform – I have just moved my VC content, now I want to sync from a specific snapshot … now what?
  235. TFS Integration Platform – Translation Service … how does it work? Part 2
  236. Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional will launch on 12 April, but you can beat the rush and secure your copy today by pre-ordering
  237. Spotted one of our Visual Studio ALM MVPs and RANGERS ON the Windows 7 Campaign site
  238. Visual Studio 2010 Architecture Guidance … have you got questions we can / should be answering?
  239. TFS Integration Platform – Moving away from the TIP Heteronym
  240. Get your hardhat … the Rangers VM Factory comes to life
  241. TFS Integration Platform – A new administrative era is upon us …
  242. TFS Integration Platform – Getting to grips with the new configuration options
  243. TFS Integration Platform Codeplex Downloads Consolidated (improved)
  244. What should future versions of the Visual Studio ALM Rangers Virtualization Guidance cover?
  245. UNISA Chatter – Formal Logic: Formal proofs
  246. Aligning the terminology we use for migrations
  247. UNISA Chatter – Design patterns in C++ Part 3: Generics & Serializer Pattern
  248. TFS Integration Platform – why does the Codeplex Installation fail on TFS 2010 RC? Question & Answer 22
  249. AIT Build Suite … a free nugget!
  250. MVP Global Summit – from a Rangers perspective
  251. UNISA Chatter – Design patterns in C++ Part 2: Composite Pattern
  252. Pro-active 2010 Guidance by the Rangers – Team Foundation Server 2010 Upgrade Guidance: Part 3
  253. Pro-active 2010 Guidance by the Rangers – Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 Virtualization Guidance: Part 2
  254. Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio 2010 Licensing … where can I find the details?
  255. Pro-active 2010 Guidance by the Rangers - Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance: Part 1
  256. Rangers Solutions on Codeplex … are we making a dent with the pro-active TFS, Visual Studio, Virtualization and ALM guidance?
  257. UNISA Chatter – Design patterns in C++ Part 1: Visitor Pattern
  258. UNISA - Makefile Example
  259. Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 Virtualization Guidance – What should be next?
  260. TFS Integration Platform – Innovation continues to roll into the platform
  261. UNISA Chatter – Operating System Concepts: Part 7 … Deadlocks
  262. UNISA Chatter – Operating System Concepts: Part 6 … Synchronization
  263. Visual Studio ALM rangers – Sabbatical Report
  264. Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 Virtualization Guidance – Q&A
  265. TFS Integration Platform – The videos have finally arrived :)
  266. Codeplex … aligning the rangers Solutions with feedback and expectations …
  267. Rangers – Visual Studio 2010 Quick reference Guidance: Minor Patch Uploaded
  268. TFS Integration Platform – Notice: Interface change in latest drop of the platform and guidance
  269. UNISA Chatter – Formal Logic: Propositional Logic Summary
  270. Rangers site on MSDN is aligned with latest solution storm
  271. Looking back at one year with the Rangers at Microsoft
  272. We asked, we are listening and we are acting … XPS vs PDF vs RAW documentation formats
  273. Robert’s Rangers Sabbatical coming to an end …
  274. Visual Studio 2010 Quick reference Guidance – Minor Refresh
  275. TFS Integration Platform – Translation Service … how does it work?
  276. TFS Integration Platform – Explicit versus Implicit field mapping in the config … huh? Question & Answer 21
  277. TFS Integration Platform – Minor guidance refresh, with updated contact references
  278. Rangers – Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Branching Guide 2010
  279. UNISA Chatter – Operating System Concepts: Part 5 … Scheduling
  280. Rangers – Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Requirements Management Guidance ships to Codeplex
  281. Rangers - Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 Upgrade Guidance ships to Codeplex
  282. Does anyone recognize the Team System MVP, enjoying his sabbatical under the liquid sun?
  283. Rangers – Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 Virtualization Guidance ships to Codeplex
  284. TFS Integration Platform – A new release has been dropped on Codeplex
  285. Rangers – Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance: Hotfix #1
  286. TFS Integration Platform – WorkFlowTypeEnum Configuration element is being deprecated
  287. Rangers – Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance Includes new Posters
  288. Rangers – Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance ships to Codeplex
  289. TFS Integration Platform – How to enable or disable migrating history for source files: Question & Answer 19
  290. TFS Integration Platform – How can I setup the Custom Adapter POC on a TFS 2010 only system: Question & Answer 18
  291. UNISA Chatter – Operating System Concepts: Part 4 … Threads
  292. Professional Visual Studio 2010 Team System Book (Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2010) … better pre-order now!
  293. Chatter – A very special day with my aviation son
  294. UNISA Chatter – Operating System Concepts: Part 3 … Processes
  295. UNISA Chatter – Operating System Concepts: Part 2 … System Structures
  296. Rangers Solutions – Questions and Discussion Suggestions for future ChalkTalk Sessions. Please give us your feedback!
  297. TFS Integration Platform – Aggregated Fields: Question & Answer 17
  298. TFS Integration Platform – @@MISSINGFIELD@@: Question & Answer 16
  299. Rangers … two exciting new Microsoft Most valued Professionals (MVP) Nominations! Go South-Africa GO!
  300. UNISA Chatter – Operating System Concepts: Part 1 … Introduction
  301. TFS Integration Platform - Consolidating two Team Foundation Servers: Questions & Answers 15
  302. UNISA – Summary of 2010 Posts
  303. UNISA Chatter – Formal Logic: Propositional Logic Examples
  304. UNISA Chatter – Formal Logic: Propositional Logic Proofs

2009 265

  1. Chatter – Last question for 2009 … what is a “Corky Dew”?
  2. Chatter – Bowen island … a small treasure island
  3. Rangers – 11 months of fun, projects, Visual Studio 2010 BETA 1, BETA 2 …
  4. TFS Integration Platform – Manually (Proactively) copying files: Questions & Answers 14
  5. TFS Integration Platform – Can I migrate from TFS to TFS or non-TFS to TFS?
  6. Happy Holidays!
  7. TFS Integration Platform – Codeplex Site has been refreshed today!
  8. TFS Integration Platform – Resetting the migration db: Questions & Answers 13
  9. Rangers – Questions & Answers 1, for example: Why am I not listed as part of a Ranger solution?
  10. Chatter - It never snows in vancouver … really?
  11. TFS Integration Platform – Mapping Work Item Fields and Values: Questions & Answers 12
  12. I have just received my personal copy of Ramon’s VSTS book :)
  13. Groundcover … these boots are made for walking!
  14. TFS Integration Platform – Cross Domain Migration … now what? Question & Answer 11
  15. Rangers Virtualization factory … how easy is it to use it?
  16. TFS Integration Platform – MergeScope: Question & Answer 10
  17. Remember your backups …
  18. TFS Integration Platform – Configuration: Narrow down the migration or synchronization using Filter Pairs. Question & Answer 9
  19. TFS Integration Platform – Baseless Merge: Question & Answers 8
  20. Microsoft Canada Development Centre (MCDC) – Cook Book
  21. Which is the hardest working community?
  22. TFS Integration Platform – Asking the right questions
  23. Kernel Debugging Day 2 - Interesting snippets of information for debugging in the trenches
  24. Kernel Mode Debugging - Scenario 3: Identify the cause of a driver crash
  25. Kernel Mode Debugging - Scenario 1: Lighting up a third party driver
  26. Kernel Mode Debugging - Scenario 2: Find the module responsible for a crash
  27. Dev4Devs … an exciting initiative in South-Africa … be there!
  28. Chatter: Basic Manual Project Management – part 3: PERT Probability Calculations
  29. Rangers Visual Studio 2010 Architect Edition Guidance: Kickoff!
  30. Chatter: Basic Manual Project Management – Part 2: PERT Techniques
  31. VSTS Rangers Home Site – A new solution has bubbled up to the top!
  32. Chatter: Basic Manual Project Management – Part 1: Cost Evaluation
  33. TFS Integration Platform – ALPHA Release is available on Codeplex!
  34. TFS Integration Platform – What is the EnableBypassRuleDataSubmission in the Configuration File? Question & Answer 7
  35. VSTS Rangers – New Quick Reference Posters on the Horizon
  36. TFS Integration platform – Proof of concept for custom adapter writers
  37. TFS Integration Platform … To Err is Human … getting the conversion result right: Lesson #1
  38. The secret of creativity …
  39. Falling in love with Windows 7 …
  40. TFS Integration Platform – Provider not found Error. Question & answer 6
  41. Schaub Canada Log: 20091101 ... Halloween has come and gone
  42. VSTS Rangers – Champion Survey Results … Finally we can ring the Swiss Cow Bells :)
  43. VSTS Rangers Process Improvements - We have listened to your feedback! Part 3 of 3
  44. Visual Studio 2010 Editions Quick Reference Poster … still BETA, but we have revision 2 available
  45. VSTS Rangers Process Improvements - We have listened to your feedback! Part 2 of 3
  46. Are you having problems while Configuring TFS and would like to see more detail for troubleshooting?
  47. VSTS Rangers Process Improvements - We have listened to your feedback! Part 1 of 3
  48. Trying to figure out the difference between Visual Studio Team System 2008 and Visual Studio 2010
  49. What do you get when you have 4 South-Africans in Vancouver with Halloween rapidly approaching?
  50. Software Engineering … fascinating world and why Team Foundation Server 2010 is an exciting puzzle piece
  51. Now that my mobile development centre is ready ... I can go home and enjoy the weekend :)
  52. TFS Integration Platform – VSTS Rangers Log 20091022 … A minor mission update
  53. TFS Integration Platform – VSTS Rangers Log 20091014 … the mission and the results to date
  54. Getting your priorities right … P0, P1, P2, …
  55. team Foundation Server 2010 BETA-2 Installation … who do we hug?
  56. We have code smell and Smoke testing … who thinks of these terms?
  57. TFS Integration Platform – What Conflict Types do we know of? Question & Answers 6
  58. Visual Studio 2010 BETA-2 … the BETA is available and already backed by exceptional videos!
  59. Certified Scrum Developer course … we can finally remove the duck tape :)
  60. Getting Assembly version Information … a left-over from our scrum course
  61. TFS Integration Platform – Why are my labels not moving? Question & Answers 5
  62. Sorry for the radio silence … enjoyed the Canadian “cold” and a huge Thanks Giving Turkey
  63. TFS Integration Platform – Index Optimization a la Grant … Questions and Answers 4
  64. Team Foundation Server 2010 BETA-2 … Getting Ready (Alert 1)
  65. TFS Integration Platform – System.Data.SqlClient.SqlException: Could not allocate space for object … Questions and Answers 3
  66. TFS Integration Platform – Summary of Links
  67. To scrum or to Run … that is the agile question?
  68. Brian the video “Guru”
  69. SDLC – Software Development Lifecycle … what’s the point? (Posts Links)
  70. The Team Foundation Server (TFS) edition we have been waiting for ...
  71. New VSTS Rangers Project - VSTT 2010 "Team test" Guidance
  72. TFS Migration Tools: Conflict resolution … a peak at the (less painful) future: Part 4
  73. Windows 7 … two utilities that are really “cool”
  74. Software engineers enjoying a day out in the fields …
  75. TFS Migration Tools: Conflict resolution … a peak at the (less painful) future: Part 3
  76. TFS Migration Tools: Should we opt for migration or synchronization? Part 1
  77. Brian shares great VSTS 2010 Tech-Ed slides from BraziL
  78. VSTS Rangers Projects – VSTS 2010 101 Guidance BETA-2
  79. TFS Migration Tools – news and stats
  80. TFS Migration Tools: Conflict resolution … a peak at the (less painful) future: Part 2
  81. TFS Migration Tools: Conflict resolution … a peak at the (less painful) future: Part 1
  82. VSTS Rangers Projects – Virtualizing VSTS 2010: Who are the Leads?
  83. Weekend is starting off on a very good note :) … South Africa 32-29 New Zealand
  84. VSTS Rangers Projects – TFS Migration Tools: Who are the leads?
  85. VSTS Rangers … what has transpired over the past 7 months?
  86. Colleagues never understood why we battled with bandwidth and downloads were long and often frustrating adventures
  87. Unhappy with Agile … revert to Waterfall. part 2 – What are the options?
  88. VSTS Rangers Projects – VSTS 2010 101 Guidance: Who are the Leads?
  89. Team System MVP colleagues put Portuguese and Spanish on the Menu
  90. What is ALM and are the relevant publications too dry for the developers?
  91. VSTS 2010 101 Guidance get’s the thumbs up for BETA-1
  92. Silent (Passive) Office Installation using PowerShell
  93. New VSTS Rangers Project - VSTS 2010 "DataDude" Guidance
  94. TFS Migration Tools – More questions, news and stats
  95. Presentation Skills … a la Chuck … part 1
  96. TFS Migration Tools – Session Re-Run Feedback and some interesting dogfooding stats
  97. The new SA Architect community site emerges
  98. VSTS Rangers Site is Live!
  99. Virtualizing VSTS 2010 Guidance – how is the automation going?
  100. Visual Studio ALM Rangers Projects – summary of projects covered on this blog
  101. When you question whether you are setting a good example for your kids…
  102. Ramon puts Brazil on the TFS map with the “Managing software projects using Visual Studio Team System” book
  103. VSTS Rangers Projects Status: Current Projects on path of completion and new projects lurking over the horizon
  104. TFS Migration Tools: Wandering into the caves of migration scenarios
  105. Abbotsford International Air show … leaving the laptop at home for the day :)
  106. VSTS Rangers – Introducing the VSTS Rangers recognition program
  107. VSTS Rangers – What’s on the remaining 2009 menu?
  108. VSTS Rangers Projects – TFS Migration Tools: Where has the link relationship vanished and why?
  109. VSTS Rangers – Who are the experts? The VSTS Rangers, the field engineers or the product group?
  110. VSTS Rangers @ TR9 … the last day and all in all a successful event!
  111. VSTS Rangers Projects – TFS Migration Tools: Query => Is the migration from one process template to another a plausible scenario?
  112. VSTS Rangers Projects – Virtualizing the Deployment of VSTS 2010: Query => Which image flavours are “crucial” and which are “would be nice”?
  113. VSTS Rangers Projects – A few “fun” pictures from TechReady where the VSTS Rangers cooked up a storm
  114. VSTS Rangers Projects – Virtualizing the Deployment of VSTS 2010
  115. VSTS Rangers Projects – What’s on the menu? Introducing delicious “Chalk Talk Cafe Menus” …
  116. TechReady9 – Two VSTS sessions you should not miss at the event!
  117. VSTS 2010 – Have you noticed the new “personalised” alert option?
  118. VSTS Rangers Projects – TFS Migration Tools initiative feedback … thereafter 2 weeks of possible radio silence
  119. VSTS Rangers Projects – TFS Migration Tools: Is it feasible to move from TFS 2008 to 2010 and back to 2008?
  120. VSTS Rangers Projects – VSTS 2010 ‘101’ Guidance is evolving
  121. VSTS Rangers Projects – TFS Migration Tools: Getting Started Questions
  122. Migration and Integration Solutions Page appears on MSDN
  123. VSTS Rangers Projects … so who is contributing?
  124. Agile Vancouver Community Event … a summary of an exceptional event
  125. VSTS Rangers Projects – Dogfooding VSTS 2010 BETA-1: Two hiccups you should not stress over
  126. VSTS Rangers Projects – Learnings from Virtualising the deployment of VSTS adventure
  127. VSTS Rangers Project - TFS Migration Tools: Configuration Demystified
  128. How do I determine which files can be safely deleted in TFS Version Control?
  129. Can you tell me about TFS and VSTS in 5 minutes … the “Steven Scenario”
  130. Synergy … a poor man’s KVM switch? No Way!
  131. VSTS Rangers Projects – TFS Migration: Questions and Answers 2
  132. VSTS Rangers Projects - WCF Load Test Tool 3.0: Some interesting features
  133. VSTS Rangers Projects – TFS Migration: Questions and Answers
  134. VSTS Rangers Projects - WCF Load Test Tool 3.0 Ships
  135. The new life at Microsoft and living in Canada … what have the first 4.5 months been like?
  136. RadioTFS Strikes Again - Dogfooding TFS with Grant Holliday
  137. Agile Vancouver – Scrum at Microsoft
  138. Migration Tools Community
  139. VSTS Rangers Projects – Visualizing the Deployment of VSTS: Saying “hello” and embracing the build engine room
  140. VSTS Rangers Projects – Using VSTS 2010 BETA-1 as part of the TFS Migration tools initiative
  141. VSTS Rangers Projects – TFS Migration: A state of the nation status update
  142. Survey Ratings - Importance
  143. Survey Ratings - Satisfaction
  144. Visual Studio Team System Community Blog Aggregator … another “rocking” service!
  145. Radio TFS 21 – The Beta 1 Show
  146. Debugging .NET Applications … a power course (day 2/2)
  147. Team Explorer (TE) 2005|2008 and Team Foundation Server 2010 Interoperability
  148. Debugging .NET Applications … a power course (day 1/2)
  149. Is Visual Studio 2010 really as evolutionary as we think?
  150. Good news for TFS 2005, 2008 and in future 2010 users in terms of compatibility … ‘ZAYD’ take note
  151. VSTS Rangers Projects – VSTS 2010 ‘101’ Guidance, meet the role images
  152. Hyper-V: Notes to self … perhaps I will remember next time … part 3
  153. Why would anyone park his Windows START button top left?
  154. Visual Studio Team System 2010 BETA-1: tentative Architecture Excursions
  155. Visual Studio Team System 2010 – BETA 1 ships! … and there is more!
  156. VSTS work item tracking, project and process customisation … a focused blog
  157. Visual Studio Team System 2010 – BETA 1 ships!
  158. SDLC – Software Development Lifecycle … Forget about prototyping? (part 11 of many)
  159. VSTS Rangers Project – TFS2TFS Project Copy initiative … collaboration with the field. Introducing AIT!
  160. Erich Witt … remembering a “very” special person!
  161. VSTS Rangers Projects – Virtualising VSTS, 101 Guidance, … collaborating with the field. Introducing SAArchitect!
  162. VSTS Rangers Projects – Feedback on TFS|VSTS 2010 CTP testing … no, we are not behind the wave :)
  163. Radio TFS – Virtualizing Team Foundation Server
  164. Hyper-V: Notes to self … TechEd 2009 revealed some great enhancements!
  165. Hyper-V: Notes to self … perhaps I will remember next time … part 2
  166. TFS Migration … worth mentioning the migration tools partner ecosystem
  167. Note to self: Read my own books and learn from my own mistakes
  168. The important ingredients to successful solutions … or in fact, what is a successful solution?
  169. Building Sandcastles … great Codeplex artefact for the documentation focused!
  170. Hyper-V: Notes to self … perhaps I will remember next time
  171. WCF Master Class in Zürich … be warned in Switzerland, a great WCF session is looming!
  172. Team Foundation Server Administration Tool 1.4 Released
  173. Tech-Ed 2009 South-Africa … Eben announces an amazing line-up of developer sessions!
  174. Introducing Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) & VSTS Rangers
  175. Rambling … instrumentation and sampling, why I prefer the former
  176. Rambling … loops and multi-processing. When things literally slow down…
  177. Rambling … why is my dual processor colleague not twice as fast?
  178. VSTS Rangers Project - TFS2TFS Project Copy: Status Update 1
  179. VSTS Rangers Project - Virtualized Deployment of TFS | VSTS: Status Update 1
  180. Hyper-V … you learn something new every day, after spitting like an angry Cobra
  181. Corporate Citizenship, Community … it is time to throw the toys out of the cot
  182. VSTS Rangers Project - VSTS 2010 “101” Guidance Sheets: Status Update 1
  183. VSTS Rangers Project – TFS2TFS Project Copy: Source snapshot available on Codeplex
  184. Radio TFS – Oracle Support for Visual Studio Team System
  185. VSTS 2010 – Branch Visualisation
  186. Preparing for a TFS, VSTS and VSTS Rangers brownbag introduction session … so what?
  187. VSTS Rangers Projects – TFS2TFS Project Copy: Architecture & Toolbox Briefing Notes
  188. Live Meetings … who/what is the fly on the wall?
  189. Willy[-Peter] Schaub - Who am I?
  190. VSTS Rangers Projects – TFS2TFS Project Copy: Migration Guidance Initial Thoughts
  191. On a personal note … why do we have so much stuff?
  192. A great VSTS Bookmark - Developer Support Team Foundation Server
  193. VSTS Rangers Projects – TFS2TFS Project Copy: Artefacts
  194. VSTS Rangers Projects – VSTT 2008 Quick Reference Guide
  195. VSTS Rangers Projects – Branching Guidance 2008: Lab Files Added
  196. VSTS Rangers Projects – Branching Guidance 2010: Artefacts
  197. VSTS Widgets – TeamReview 1.0.9 Ships
  198. On a personal note … visiting Seattle with family
  199. On a personal note … strange sign
  200. DreamSpark High School Provides Students with Free Software to Pursue Their Academic & Professional Goals
  201. VSTS Rangers Projects – Who are the contributors
  202. TeamPrise 3.2 takes a deep breath … true interoperability and integration at its best!
  203. Team System Website – have you visited our new home?
  204. Where have all the quick reference posters gone?
  205. VSTS Rangers Projects – Project Announcement: TFS2TFS Team Project Copy
  206. Internet Explorer 8 – Ships
  207. VSTS Rangers Projects – Project Announcement: TFS 2010 Upgrade Guide
  208. VSTS Rangers Projects – Project Announcement: TFS 2010 Requirements Management
  209. An innovative way of bringing a smile to our faces … you need a team system
  210. VSTS Rangers Projects – Project Announcement: VSTS/TFS Virtualized deployment
  211. VSTS 2010 – Some cool new features in C# 4: Default & Named Parameters and Dynamic Types (part 1 of many)
  212. VSTS Rangers Projects – Project Announcement: VSTS 2010 “101” Guidance Sheets
  213. VSTS Rangers Projects – Project Announcement: TFS 2010 Branching Guide
  214. VSTS Rangers Projects – the next “nuggets” are under construction!
  215. SA Developer Community – Port Elizabeth .NET Event
  216. SDLC – Software Development Lifecycle … Visual Process & Estimating (Guessing) Software Deliverables
  217. Hyper-V … there is no way of going back for me
  218. VSTS Rangers Projects – New Guidance Packages Posted!
  219. A great picture of the Team System MVPs and others :)
  220. VSTS Rangers Projects – summary of projects covered on this blog
  221. SDLC – Software Development Lifecycle … flashback, component-level design principles (part 9 of many)
  222. SDLC – Software Development Lifecycle … testing, the moment of truth (part 8 of many)
  223. MVP Global Summit: Photos
  224. Academia … exciting to see that Rhodes is on the radar again!
  225. MVP Global Summit – Day 3: EMP Evening
  226. MVP Global Summit – Day 3: VSTS Ranger Session
  227. MVP Global Summit – Day 2: The Team System MVPs “Rock”
  228. Team Foundation Server 2010 Installation … Take 1: A new era begins q;-)
  229. Microsoft Acronyms and TLA’s …
  230. SDLC – Software Development Lifecycle … designing the blueprint (part 7 of many)
  231. MVP Global Summit … imminent!
  232. Radio TFS – Getting Agile With Team Foundation Server
  233. Microsoft DevDays 2009 – South Africa
  234. SDLC – Software Development Lifecycle … analyzing the battle ahead (part 6 of many)
  235. TLA … why, why, why?
  236. VSTS Ranger Projects - Load Test Report
  237. SA Architect – What is it all about and why is it important to me?
  238. VSTS FAQ - A problem has been encountered while loading the setup components. Cancelling setup.
  239. VSTS Ranger Projects – actually ship broadly to customers?!?
  240. VSTS Ranger Projects - TFS Operations Guide
  241. PerfectDisk 10 – A sneak peek at the product
  242. On the side – Kevlar
  243. VSTS Ranger Projects - WCF Load Test Tool
  244. TFS FAQ – can I upgrade WSS to MOSS for Team Foundation Server?
  245. VSTS Rangers Projects – Branching Guidance II
  246. VSTS Rangers … positioning the rangers and projects
  247. New patterns & practices look & feel in the MSDN Library
  248. Links to CTP evaluation posts on the other side.
  249. SDLC – Software Development Lifecycle … is prototyping part of the good, the bad and/or the evil? (part 5 of many)
  250. SDLC – Software Development Lifecycle … what’s the point? (links to all posts)
  251. I’m a PC … huh?
  252. SDLC – Software Development Lifecycle … agility strikes back with energy (part 4 of many)
  253. MOSS TFS Integration Customer Engagement – another ranger nugget!
  254. VSTS Work Item – ensuring that an associate work item does not close a work item by default
  255. VSTS Rangers VSTT Cheat Sheets – another amazing ranger nugget!
  256. SDLC – Software Development Lifecycle … exploring common models (part 3 of many)
  257. Ranger Projects … submit the “101 - VSTS 2010” idea for the next poll?
  258. VSTS Rangers … correcting the perception
  259. TFS Book: Inside the Microsoft Build Engine
  260. SDLC – Software Development Lifecycle … closer look at basics (part 2 of many)
  261. SDLC – Software Development Lifecycle … what’s the point? (part 1 of many)
  262. Team System Widgets – MVP maintained site!
  263. VSTS Widgets - TeamReview 1.0.8 appears on Codeplex
  264. Starting a new blog on new grounds at MCDC …
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