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If try to connect to TFS 2010 instance from Visual Studio 2008 you will probably experience the following error message:

Possible reasons for failure include:

• The Team Foundation Server name, port number or protocol is incorrect.
  
• The Team Foundation Server is offline.
  
• Password is expired or incorrect.

The trick is that due to changes in TFS 2010 architecture, you now have to enter a full URL to connect to the server. This URL have to include a TFS virtual directory in it. So at the end the URL will something like this:

http://tfs2010:8080/tfs

This will connect you to the default collection of the TFS 2010 server.

Labels: Tools and Tips, Visual Studio 2008, Visual Studio 2010

Ever wanted to know how Alternate Access Mappings (AMM) work in SharePoint. Do you need to add host header to your web site or you wonder what the heck is internal and public URLs in SharePoint?

The following three articles will help you understand everything I think you need to know about Alternate Access Mappings in MOSS and WSS.

Just to give a fresh start – Internal URL is just a 302 redirect to the Public URL. It is this so simple.

Also make sure to test with FQDN (Fully Qualified Domain Names).

What every SharePoint administrator needs to know about Alternate Access Mappings (Part 1 of 3)
(talks about Internal and Public URLs)

What every SharePoint administrator needs to know about Alternate Access Mappings (Part 2 of 3)
(talks about the 6^th most common mistakes you will ever make in setting up AMM)

What every SharePoint administrator needs to know about Alternate Access Mappings (Part 3 of 3)
(talks about Authentication Providers, Web Application Polices, External Resource Mappings)

Labels: SharePoint

Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 has the possibility to boot from VHD. Ideally this will make your VM run with the smallest overhead possible from the host system. It should be interesting to try out Windows Server 2008 Server Core and see how much is the memory footprint. Actually this article "Deploying and Maintaining Server Core" claims that the actual footprint they have is 1.6GB HDD and 180MB RAM.

Find out how to make Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2 boot from VHD file in this step by step guide "Windows 7 - Natively Booting from a .VHD file (Virtual PC image)" and in the video Windows 7 VHD Boot Demonstration.

There are some restrictions though. Watch out for the following:

as stated in the article "Windows 7 Boot From VHD".

Labels: Tools and Tips