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Whooo, it’s been a long time since I posted.  Well, here’s to making up for lost time.  I will be presenting at SharePoint Saturday Twin Cities (again) a half-day session on Upgrading to SharePoint 2010 with Brian Caauwe.  We will cover topics ranging from prep-ing your existing environment to ideas around involving the business in change management.  We presented this session last year in the fall SPSTC and it was a huge success.  I will be posting our session presentation and script files on my blog, so look for an update to THIS post.  Looking forward to seeing everyone! You can find more information on the event here:  http://www.sharepointsaturday.org/twincities/default.aspx Oh, and don’t forget to tweet about the event.  Use hash tag: #spstc

  Make the move to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 With modern features like state-of-the-art version control, integrated bug tracking and flexible build automation, Team Foundation Server 2010 ensures the delivery of quality software faster. Below you’ll find all the tools and information to help you upgrade from Visual SourceSafe to Team Foundation Server right now. http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/en-us/upgrade-visual-sourcesafe?sf1092424=1 White paper and videos on the topic…( read more )

Hola, ayer me encontraba trabajando un poco tarde cuando recibí la llamada de un compañero de trabajo Doug Pitcher quien me dice “Francisco… tengo un problema después de haber actualizado GP, desear hechar un vistazo?”. Inmediatamente respondí “Por Supuesto!!!” ya que me gusta investigar incidentes, después de conectarme a su equipo visualizo que presentaba errores debido a personalizaciones que incluían código vba en algunos reportes, mi recomendación inicial fué eliminar todos los archivos *.vba de tamaño 4kb y los archivos restantes (*.vba) moverlos del folder (Doug previo a la actualización exportó todas las personalizaciones en un archivo .package). Ahora intentó de nuevo ingresar a utilidades sin problema alguno, luego al intentar acceder a GP nos muestra el siguiente error “ Una actualización disponible puede ser requerida para su computadora, pero el proceso de actualización no pudo verificar ésta información” Después de recibir dicho error pregunte “Doug sabes si se intentó actualizar los clientes desde GP?” Aún con la respuesta “No” consulté la tabla Dynamics..SYUPDATE y había en ella un registro, así que procedimos a eliminar dicho registro y los equipos pudieron acceder a GP sin problema alguno

Recently ran into the need to revert a specific web back to the SharePoint 2007 UI after an upgrade to SharePoint 2010.  The main reason for the change was a custom masterpage that was not ready for the 2010 styles and ribbon.  After the UI was upgraded, the masterpage rendering was pretty bad.  The Site Actions menu would render behind the contents of the page, the layout was completely out of whack. I put together a couple lines of PowerShell that will do this for a specific web…( read more )

Upgrading TFS and Lab Management from Beta2 to RC requires a few steps. After working with several customers, we saw that a checklist of all the tasks can be helpful.

Wir haben festgestellt das es immer wieder einmal vorkommen kann das ausversehen eine NAV Datenbank mit einem NAV Client einer höheren Version geöffnet wird. Das hat zur Folge das die Datenbank mit dem aktuellen Client konvertiert wird und damit evtl. neu eingeführte Properties oder ähnliche Features in die Datenbank geschrieben werden.

While many of us had suspected it to be the case, Walt Mossberg of All Things Digital in his review of Snow Leopard has confirmed it: The 10.6 upgrade will work with 10.4 Tiger. Which means that if you’re not keen on iLife or iWork ‘09, you can skip the full version included in the box set and save yourself a cool $140

Last week Apple quietly upgraded the entry-level white MacBook’s Core 2 Duo processor clock speed from 2.0 GHz to 2.13 GHz, added an additional 40GB of standard hard disk capacity, and upgraded its RAM specification to 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM. Obviously, additional speed and capacity is a plus, but as The Mac Observer’s Ted Landau questions , why upgrade this long-in-the-tooth laptop at all? Significant Value-Added To recap recent developments in the MacBook world, the unibody aluminum machines, released October 2008, mostly replaced the preceding white-and-black polycarbonate models, with the entry-level unibody model featuring a 2.0 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo and an NVIDIA GeForce 9400M graphics processor, which remains the current spec at this writing ( although reportedly there has been an unheralded upgrade of display quality )

Wenn Sie als Softwarehersteller noch nicht Windows 7 Ready sind, dann wird es dringend Zeit sich mit Windows 7 auseinander zu setzen: Brandon LeBlanc schreibt in einem Eintrag  des Windows 7 Team Blogs, dass wir den  Windows 7 Release to Manufacturing ( RTM ) Meilenstein in der zweiten Julihälfte 2009 erwarten.

If you are testing TFS 2010 Beta1 you may hit the following error during upgrade: TF50363: The following display name is not valid. This is due to a known bug in our upgrade scripts where in the Version Control db (TfsVersionControl) tbl_Identity table there exists one or more rows where the DisplayName field contains data that is not in the expected format of domainusername .   If you hit this error, the workaround is to update the row and prefix the existing value with a dummy domain name like ‘domain’. You can query the tbl_Identity table to see if you have any rows where this is the case by running: use TfsVersionControl go SELECT * FROM tbl_Identity WHERE DisplayName NOT LIKE ( ‘%%’ )   If the query returns rows, then you can run the following to prefix ‘domain’ to the field and re-run the upgrade.  Note you’ll have to do after restoring the TFS 2008 dbs and before re-running the upgrade (see below) UPDATE tbl_Identity SET DisplayName = ‘domain’ + DisplayName WHERE DisplayName NOT LIKE ( ‘%%’ )     To restart upgrade you will need “start over” by following these high level steps: 1

Keep your system up to date with the most recent cumulative update package for SQL Server 2008 SP1. This package is only intended for customers who are going to be upgrading from SQL Server 2008 CU#4 to SP1.

We are in the process of testing the upgrade feature on TFS 2010, and in the next release you will be able to upgrade directly from either TFS 2005 or TFS 2008.   Right now we are collecting real world customer databases to test against.    Specifically, we are looking for customers of TFS that are willing to share (via upload to a secure FTP site) a SQL backup copy of their databases with us here at Microsoft.  We will then use these databases to test the TFS upgrade feature.   If you are interested in participating and can share your TFS database, please reply to me here, or email me directly at bryan.krieger@microsoft.com . Thanks!