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TechEd 2009: We’re #2 (And #3, and #4)

TechEd 2009: We’re #2 (And #3, and #4)

By Steven Borg • on May 17, 2009

We’re all finally home!  Jeff Levinson, Shad Timm, and I spent last week speaking, listening, learning and playing at TechEd 2009 in Los Angeles, CA.  Those who’ve been to TechEd, know the fire hose of information unleashed at the attendees coving developer topics from designing Azure cloud based application to Visual Studio Team System, not to

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New Radio TFS Episode on Adopting Team System with Steven Borg

New Radio TFS Episode on Adopting Team System with Steven Borg

By Steven Borg • on March 31, 2009

A few weeks ago during the MVP summit, I had the wonderful experience of hanging out with

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Team System

Using Excel for Team System Reporting - Video

Using Excel for Team System Reporting - Video

By Steven Borg • on December 15, 2008

I created a short video to demonstrate how to use Excel 2007 to create a cumulative flow diagram (often called Remaining Work) that gets its data directly

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We’re Speaking At Tech Ed!

We’re Speaking At Tech Ed!

By Jeff Levinson • on March 16, 2009

Both Steven Borg and I will be speaking for a combined total of 4 sessions and 1 pre-con. The pre-con

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Why is the Estimated Work field not available in TFS Reports?

Why is the Estimated Work field not available in TFS Reports?

By Steven Borg • on October 28, 2008

The Estimated Work field is used to maintain the estimate for a Task work item in the MSF for CMMI Process Template.  However, if you’re creating

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Slipstreaming TFS2008 on Windows Server 2008

Slipstreaming TFS2008 on Windows Server 2008

By Steven Borg • on June 22, 2009

If you’re installing TFS2008 using SQL Server 2008, you MUST slipstream your installation.  However, if you’re installing on Windows Server

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Issues with Alerts in TFS

Every once in a while we get customers who note issues with alerts. In some cases alerts are being duplicated, items don’t show up in the alerts editor, by default you can only see alerts for yourself,

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Northwest Cadence Attains Gold Certified Partner Status in Microsoft Partner Program

Northwest Cadence Further Distinguishes Itself by Earning a Microsoft Competency in Custom Development Solutions and Learning Solutions Kirkland, WA, USA - 9 January, 2009 Northwest Cadence, www.nwcadence.com,

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Compelling TFS Features to Upgrade from 2005 to 2008

The following is an excerpt from “The Tempo”, Northwest Cadence’s monthly newsletter.  This article was written by Jeff Levinson. Compelling TFS Features to Upgrade from 2005 to 2008 The

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Steve Borg Renewed as VSTS MVP

What does it take to receive Microsoft’s Most Valuable Professional (MVP) recognition? Steve Borg knows, for now - the 5th year in a row, Steve has been awarded this prestigious award from Microsoft.

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Practical Process Improvement (Part 5)

The first four posts (Part 1, Part

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