It’s a little over 3 weeks until Tech Ed Africa 2011 starts (it runs from 17 to 20 October). I’ll be presenting a two topics on the Development Track

Recently while working at a customer, we configured mail alerts for TFS. We checked that the SMTP server was correct and that we could send mail from the application tiers – everything looked correct, but still there were no mails.

Most posts about load balancing TFS Application Tiers using NLB use either physical servers or Hyper-V virtual servers. So you would think that you can do the same using VMWare for the Application Tiers, right?

• Part 1 – Considerations
• Part 2 – Setup
• Part 3 – Configuration

• Part 1 – Considerations
• Part 2 – Setup
• Part 4 – Synchronizing Hierarchies from TFS

• Part 1 – Considerations
• Part 3 – Configuration
• Part 4 – Synchronizing Hierarchies from TFS

• Part 2 – Setup
• Part 3 – Configuration
• Part 4 – Synchronizing Hierarchies from TFS

Last week I was helping a customer get up and running with Lab Management. In an effort to make sure they’re up to date, I installed TFS and VS 2010 SP1 on their TFS machine as well as in all the Lab machines.

Notion Solutions is part of Imaginet, and last week Microsoft announced that Imaginet had won the Microsoft Partner of the Year in the inaugural Application Lifecycle Management category.

I was at a customer recently who have a small test database – around 120MB in size. I had encouraged them to use the DB Professional tools in VS 2010 to track their schema – that way they could deploy the database (as well as the latest schema) and some test data (through INSERT statements or even better, data generation plans). However, their developers didn’t have the time or skills (yet) to do this.