Rob
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Jul 18 2013
ALM Readiness Treasure Map v2 about to be published!
Hopefully you’ve been following all of the hard work invested by the ALM Rangers since version 1 of our ALM Readiness Treasure Map was published back in January 2013. What is it? The ALM Readiness Treasure Map is a Windows 8 Store Application that brings all of the sources of Microsoft-produced Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) …
Jun 20 2013
Key Management Services (KMS) Windows Client Setup Keys
This document includes keys for Vista, Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 R2, and Windows Server 2012. http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/jj612867.aspx Rob This post was migrated from https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/rob/2013/06/20/key-management-services-kms-windows-client-setup-keys/.
Apr 26 2013
Administering Team Foundation Service (on the web, not on-premise)
If you are using Team Foundation Service (i.e. in the cloud, not our on-premise Team Foundation Server), finding the administration pages from the web site can be a bit tricky if you don’t know where to look. Log into your TFS account. If you don’t have one, you can sign up at http://tfs.visualstudio.com. In the upper-right corner …
Apr 19 2013
Measuring How Long Commands Take in Windows
I was considering installing the timeit.exe command on my new laptop, but read that it may not work on the latest versions of Windows. So, I found an article on StackOverflow that recommended using the Measure-Command command in PowerShell. You use it as follows, where Get-ChildItem is just listing the current directory as an example command …
Apr 03 2013
Consolidating Hyper-V Differencing Disks into One
I deleted two snapshots from a Hyper-V virtual machine (VM) this morning. This left the base .vhd file and two .avhd differencing disks. I decided I wanted to merge them into a single file and learned that the diskpart tool will let you do this. Open an elevated command prompt (i.e. run as administrator). Run …