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Windows 8 / Server 2012 Tip of the Day: Logging Off (and Switching User)
I don't know why, but I keep forgetting how to log off of Windows 8 / Server 2012 systems. To do so, go to the Start "screen", click on your user account picture/name in the upper-right hand corner of...
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Migrating a Storage Pool from Windows Server 8 Beta to Windows Server 2012 RTM
I had a computer running Windows Server 8 Beta with a Storage Pool using the “Parity” resiliency type. I installed Windows Server 2012 RTM “over it” (i.e. not an upgrade) and completely lost access to...
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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...
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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.aspxRob
View ArticleGet a list of all users who have checked files into a TFS Project
Have you ever wanted to get a list of all the users who have ever checked files into a TFS instance? Here’s how to do so from PowerShell: tf history * /format:detailed /recursive /noprompt |...
View ArticleDebugging VS2013 Websites Using 64-bit IIS Express
6 April 2016 Update: Added the correct values for VS2015. If you are working on ASP.NET MVC web sites in Visual Studio 2013 (VS2013) or 2015 (VS2015), you need to make one registry change if you want...
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ALM Readiness Treasure Map Status and Future (Arrr!)
Hello, fellow pirates! Hopefully you have had a chance to use version 2.0 of the ALM Readiness Treasure Map application and are enjoying the improvements that it brought over v1.0. Our team has been...
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The ship is leaving port for the open seas
The ALM Readiness Treasure Map v2.1 has begun its journey to release. We will keep you posted as to its status. Note that although it is listed as Release 3, this is version 2.1 of the application....
View ArticleThe ALM Readiness Treasure Map v2.1 has been released!
After a lot of hard work by my fellow pirates, v2.1 of the Treasure Map application has shipped and is now available in the Windows Store. If you are running Windows 8.1, this is the version that you...
View ArticleConnect Windows Live Writer to Your MSDN Blog
This is just a quick reminder post for me (or someone else who stumbles across this) that the solution to connecting your MSDN blog to Windows Live Writer can be found here:...
View ArticleFixing "The ‘CctSharedPackage’ package did not load correctly"
I started Visual Studio 2013 this morning and opened the About dialog to make sure that I was running Update 1 on this particular machine. Before the About dialog was displayed, I got the following...
View ArticleChocolatey Tip of the Day: cup all
If you use Chocolatey (http://chocolatey.org/) and you want to update all of the packages you already have installed, just enter the following at the command prompt and all will be updated: cup all Rob
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Viewing All of the Git Repositories in your TFS Team Project within Visual...
I recently reconnected to a TFS 2013.3 Team Project after quite a while away. I knew that additional Git repos had been added to the team project, but Visual Studio 2013.3 was not displaying them in...
View ArticleMap the Caps Lock key on your Surface Pro 3 to be the Insert Key
`I have really missed the Insert key on my Surface Pro 3 (SP3). In the process of searching for a key combination that replaced it, I learned that there wasn’t one. Scott Hanselman posted how to...
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Upgrading from TFS 2013 to TFS 2017
I was running TFS 2013 Update 4 on top of SQL Server 2012 SP3 and was unable to upgrade to TFS 2017 because this version of the SQL database is not supported. So, I ran the SQL Server 2016 installer...
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Convert WAV files to FLAC
The easiest way that I’ve found to convert your WAV audio files to FLAC format so they’re compressed without losing any audio quality is to do the following: Make sure you have Chocolatey installed...
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