TFS 2013 Care and Feeding

This document provides an overview of administering a Team Foundation Server (TFS) application. It covers the operational architecture including databases and services, backup and restore processes, application administration such as managing users and groups, creating team projects, setting permissions, and other administrative functions. It also discusses maintenance plans for SQL databases, adding and removing users, and data migration from external version control and defect tracking systems.

General overview of Team Foundation Server 2008. Includes links to additional resources in the appendix, including contact information.

The document discusses the benefits of automating various IT projects and processes using automation tools. It describes how automation can speed up middleware upgrades, migrations between platforms to reduce costs, building private clouds, upgrading core applications, and platform migrations. It then introduces the Folder Management plugin for RapidDeploy which allows centrally managing folder structures and file configurations across target servers to reduce errors and improve consistency. The plugin enables snapshotting folder structures, comparing files over time, templating files, and deploying filesystem changes.

For teams of translators working in collaboration and using SDL Trados Studio, this is a fantastic way to share Translation Memory, Terminology and Project information. SDL GroupShare 2014 offers a robust and hugely scalable solution for translation teams to work simultaneously on larger projects.

AvePoint Presents, Understanding Office 365 Groups: Ask The Experts More blogs, webinars, and videos about Office 365 Groups for you: https://www.avepoint.com/office-365-groups/ Presented by: - Christophe Fiessinger, Microsoft Office 365 Groups Program Manager - Dux Raymond Sy, Microsoft MVP & AvePoint Public Sector CTO - Jeremy Thake, Hyperfish VP of Product Technology Office 365 Groups are shared workspaces where group members can collectively get things done. But how exactly does it work, and how will Office Groups enhance the way you work? Join our experts for an interactive, question-and-answer session covering: An overview of what Office 365 Groups are, how they work, and what you get when you set one up Use cases and customer stories showcasing how you can use Office 365 Groups to power your teams and projects Prescriptive advice on how your IT and governance teams can manage Office 365 in the era of Office 365 Groups By the end of our webinar, you will understand what Office 365 Groups are and the impact that activating them can have on your organization.

The document proposes solutions to improve the Teams Dev Docs by addressing developer pain points. It identifies key pain points such as difficulty finding relevant content and understanding errors. Possible solutions include a chatbot that can quickly answer questions and documentation that allows coding in native languages. User research is cited to validate the identified pain points. A phased go-to-market strategy is proposed starting with targeted launches of the chatbot and native language support to capture early adopters. The solutions aim to reduce time spent on documentation and increase new developer adoption.

Following from PowerBreakfast #004 presented by Steven Murawaski on Desired State Configuration (DSC) that is available here. Are you still not convince that you should be looking at DSC right NOW or do you think it is worth waiting for something new or even looking at staying at where you are and how things are working now? In this session, I will generally focus on the Operational side of things which focus on the response that I have received from speaking to various folks at work. On top of that, I will also share on how things may have changed for a group of Developers and/or System Engineers which we have integrate DSC into your daily life.

In this webinar, Microsoft Regional Director Benjamin Niaulin covers the fundamentals of a successful Microsoft Teams deployment. Learn tips and tricks to roll out Microsoft's fastest-growing application—all while keeping your tenant tidy and secure.

The document outlines the four phases of migrating to Team Foundation Server 2010: research and planning, setup, migration, and post-migration. It discusses important considerations and steps for each phase such as determining hardware and team project collection strategies, upgrading process templates and work items, configuring the TFS application tier and build servers, and reviewing permissions after migration. Resources for additional information and help are also provided.

If you're thinking about migrating from TFS on-premises to VSTS, it's not necessarily a simple decision as to how to get there. During this briefing we discussed some of the considerations that lead you to the right migration path, gotchas that we have encountered, and how we can help you get to VSTS quickly and effectively.

The document discusses customizing HTML outputs from DITA using CSS stylesheets and parameters. It provides an overview of common HTML formats (XHTML, HTML Help, Eclipse Help, JavaHelp), how they can be customized through CSS, parameters, and XSL overrides. It also covers context sensitivity for HTML Help and Eclipse Help through plugins, and resources for further customization.

CCLA, a UK fund manager, implemented Oracle WebCenter Portal Spaces to improve collaboration and project management. Spaces provided out-of-the-box features like wikis, blogs and forums. It was customized with an intranet homepage and "Hot Topics" template for projects. Custom widgets were also developed, like task summaries. This provided employees a single portal for collaboration and allowed standardized, database-backed project creation and management.

This session will explore the new Windows Powershell v2.0 features and how to automate administrative tasks in Windows 7. We will examine the new Windows Powershell cmdlets and show you how to remotely manage desktop systems throughout the organization. Then we will use Windows Powershell with WMI to monitor and retrieve system status and execute changes. Finally, we will use Windows Powershell Group Policy Object cmdlets to automate management of Group Policy Objects and the configuration of registry-based settings.

Rational Team Concert (RTC) is an IBM tool for software development team collaboration. It provides an environment for managing plans, tasks, source control, documents, builds, and reports. RTC is highly customizable and built on the IBM Jazz platform. It allows teams to search for items, extract work items from descriptions, view component histories, annotate files, change work item attributes in bulk, and more.

This document provides an overview of PowerApps custom controls (PCF). PCF allows developers to create reusable custom controls with enhanced capabilities compared to web resources. It discusses the PCF project structure, including the manifest and index files. PCF controls can be built with TypeScript, React, and other frameworks. The document demonstrates how to set up a development environment and build a PCF control. It also provides resources for the PCF community and links for additional documentation.

T4 is a text templating engine that allows generating text output from templates with input. It is used across the Microsoft stack for code generation scenarios. T4 templates use directives like <#@ #> and control blocks like <# #> to define template behavior. Templates can be designed for use at design-time in Visual Studio or as precompiled runtime templates. Microsoft extensively uses T4 for scenarios like ASP.NET MVC and Entity Framework code generation. Care must be taken when extending or modifying generated code to avoid losses during regeneration.

Microsoft Teams can be used to organize various roles and activities. For finance, it allows budget planning and management teams to collaborate on tasks such as creating marketing/sales forecasts, capital expenditure budgets, operating expense budgets, and budget reporting. It also helps earnings release teams prepare annual reports, manage securities filings, coordinate earnings calls, and manage overall program activities through channels, conversations, files, and external connections.

Having a metrics mindset, choosing metrics for the right reasons, knowing how and when to use them, and some ideas for getting started

Feedback helps us to build stronger teams, supports more effective problem-solving and collaboration, and ultimately contributes to happier people delivering better products. Without effective feedback, we can spend time focusing on the wrong things, solving the wrong problems, maybe not even knowing about problems in the first place! In my experience, people are generally not confident in their feedback skills. This makes feedback feel risky, vulnerable, scary, even downright anxiety-inducing and so then they give no feedback at all. Feedback Doesn't Have to Suck. In this fast-paced 20 minute session focused on supercharging your feedback skills, I will help you get a good foothold on where to start. We’ll warm up with an overview of what feedback is, attributes of high-quality feedback, and some “tips and tricks” to getting comfortable with giving and receiving candid feedback that has worked really well for me both as a manager and a team member. You’ll be a feedback champion before you know it!

How many times have you been asked to deliver on metrics that did not make sense to you, that felt counterproductive to your or the team's effectiveness, or that were seemingly impossible to collect in a sane fashion? Oftentimes, I find that metrics being collected are ones that are easy to collect and report on but are not necessarily the ones that will help the team learn and improve. When it comes to software delivery, lean and agile practices and methodologies have taken the lead. Metrics have lagged a bit and often rely on very waterfall-style milestones and phase-gates to determine a team's effectiveness. In the spirit of continuous improvement, this session will take a look at the measures we can and should collect from agile teams, why these metrics are relevant and interesting, and how we can use them to help our teams continuously improve.

This document discusses increasing adaptability through developing three skills: change awareness, cognitive flexibility, and focused attention. It defines adaptability quotient (AQ) as the capacity to adapt to and thrive in changing environments. The document provides strategies for strengthening each skill, such as asking probing questions to improve change awareness, thinking differently to boost cognitive flexibility, and focusing on new situations to enhance attention. It encourages scanning the environment for unknowns, loosening constraints, and returning to zero to view things differently. The document was written by Sara Caldwell and Angela Dugan of 3Cloud Solutions and promotes their consulting services and resources including an AQ assessment test.

The document discusses agile metrics used by Angela Dugan and Sara Caldwell of 3Cloud Solutions to measure team and product health. It introduces common metrics like work in progress, business value, and team health checks. It also cautions that metrics can be misused and should be viewed with care, using principles like considering multiple metrics, involving the team, and having surrounding conversations. The document aims to help readers understand how to properly use and interpret agile metrics.

Measuring the right things for the right reasons to support team experimentation, learning, and improvement

Feedback helps us to build stronger teams, supports more effective problem-solve and collaboration, and ultimately contributes to delivering better products. Without it, we can spend time focusing on the wrong things, solving the wrong problems, maybe not even knowing about problems in the first place! So if feedback is critical to us growing and thriving, why aren't we all excitedly showering each other with feedback all the time, and BEGGING others to give it to us? In my experience, people are generally not enthusiastic or confident in their ability to give feedback. Feedback usually isn't happening because feedback feels risky, vulnerable, scary, even downright anxiety-inducing. As a manager, leader, and coach of many teams over the last 20+ years, I can help you get a good foothold on where to start. Even better, I can tell you where the bodies are buried so you avoid some of the mistakes I've experienced over the years too. In this session, we'll warm up with an overview of what feedback is and is not. We'll also review the qualities of high-quality feedback, as well as the other kinds of feedback so you know the difference. We'll finish off with a quick summary of some "tips and tricks" to getting comfortable with giving and receiving candid feedback that has worked really well for me. You'll be a feedback champion before you know it!

Are you still relying on the old standbys like percent complete, velocity, and burndown for monitoring the progress of your teams or projects? Those metrics may not be telling you what you think they are! In this fast-paced discussion, we'll talk about some of the pitfalls of commonly used metrics, and make the case for not so commonly used measures that give you the insights that you're really striving for. You will learn: Understand the connection between what you measure, your team performance, and product quality Explanation of how many commonly used metrics will fail to tell you what you really need to know Familiarity with uncommonly used metrics that will more reliably tell you how well your project or team are really doing

Feedback makes the world go around, and let’s be honest, many of us feel pretty unskilled at feedback - both at giving and receiving. As technologists, we thrive on experimenting, learning, and adjusting, which we cannot do without the input and perspectives of others around us. So if feedback is critical to us growing and thriving, if feedback is truly a “gift”, what’s the deal? Why isn’t everyone wholeheartedly and excitedly showering each other with feedback all the time? In my experience, feedback isn’t happening because feedback feels risky, vulnerable, scary, even downright anxiety-inducing. Feedback is also something we’re not trained to do well if at all. Bad practices like the “feedback sh*t sandwich” is still common practice. It may even feel like a personal and professional bear trap! In this session, we’ll warm up with an overview of what feedback is and is not. We’ll also review the qualities of high-quality feedback, as well as the other kinds of feedback so you know the difference.

This document discusses increasing adaptability. It begins by introducing the concepts of intellectual quotient, emotional quotient, and adaptability quotient. It then provides tips for improving adaptability, such as communicating with one's environment, considering new ideas, and focusing on new situations while letting go of old ones. Steps are outlined for becoming more adaptative, like popping one's bubble, unlearning and relearning, cognitively flexing, and reflecting on and recognizing change. The document encourages reaching out to the sponsors for help experiencing change and provides references.

The document discusses the importance of open communication, vulnerability, and feedback for effective teamwork. It notes that communicating openly and honestly, and speaking from a place of vulnerability are both very difficult but necessary to avoid struggles. It emphasizes practicing radical candor when giving feedback to others.

In the 20 or so years since I joined the tech community, I moved from an attitude of "please leave me alone in my cube to code and whatever you do don't talk to me!" to well, giving talks on the importance of communication in the software world. The tools and techniques I've come to know and love have changed over time, but a few things have remained constant. 1) Communicating openly and honestly at all times is HARD 2) Speaking from a place of vulnerability is RIDICULOUSLY HARD 3) Without 1 and 2 you're going to really struggle to be an effective and happy member of ANY software team OK, there's a 4th thing. 4) The days of working alone in your cube like a hermit are largely over for software folks. It really doesn't have to suck. I swear it doesn’t. During my brief time with you, I’m going to rumble with some touch topics and share some of my own embarrassing and enlightening stumbles. It will include things like delivering “bad news” to your client/manager/team and feeling good about it, managing conflict with others in healthy and productive ways, and delivering feedback without feeling like you (or the receiver) will vomit. These things are all very possible, and not that hard to master once you have some key tools and insights in your tool belt.

How many times have you been asked to deliver on metrics that did not make sense, that were counterproductive to the team’s effectiveness, or the organization’s effectiveness? Did those metrics seem impossible to collect? Often times, the metrics being collected are the ones that are easy, and focused on individual “productivity”. How do we collect data that drives continuous improvement and promotes an open and trust-filled environment. How does that change at scale? When it comes to software delivery, lean and agile practices have clearly taken the lead. This session will take a look at the measures we can and should collect across teams and organizations. We’ll dig into metrics that are relevant, interesting, AND useful, and discuss some of the common traps.

How many times have you been asked to deliver on metrics that did not make sense, that were counterproductive to the team's effectiveness, or that were seemingly impossible to collect? Often times, the metrics being collected are the ones that are easy, but not necessarily the ones that matter. When it comes to software delivery, lean and agile practices and methodologies have clearly taken the lead. In the spirit of Kaizen, this session will take a look at the measures you can and should collect from agile teams, why these metrics are relevant and interesting, and how you can use them to help your teams continuously improve.

Building the “perfect team” seems like an impossible task these days. Can a truly “cross-functional” team even be built? How do you get introverts and extroverts (yes, they DO exist in IT) to play nice? Seems like these days you practically need a degree in psychology to get this right. But you don’t. Over the course of my career, I’ve worked with my clients and my company to develop high functioning teams. I’ve found that regardless of focus (software development, marketing, sales), there are patterns to what makes teams successful, and what can hold them back from greatness. In this talk, I’ll cover a couple of tools for understanding the needs and strengths of your individual team members, identifying strength gaps, and action items for creating a happy and well-balanced team that can get it done!

How to recognize when your team is stuck, and how to blast through common challenges to being an effective team

Whether you've been working on an agile team for 6 months, or 6 years, the same obstacles tend to arise to trip us up over and over. Maybe your retrospectives feel more like a death march and no one is participating any more, or your daily stand-ups have bloated into 25 team member status meetings, or you have a QA team that feels buried by your fast-paced development team. These situations are unfortunately very common, and they lower team morale, lead to abandoned transformation initiatives, and ultimately your product and customers suffer because of it. But there's a better way! As an agile coach and consultant, I help software organizations stop the bleeding, mature their process, and develop into high functioning agile teams. And to be clear, I've made mistakes as well! I'd like to share with the audience my own experiences, including strategies that succeeded and failed in hopes of leading them down the path to getting their own teams "unstuck". I'll also give attendees an opportunity to share their own challenges, so that we can leverage those strategies to give them ideas for blasting through their own roadblocks. Learning points: Recognizing when your process, product, or people have gone off the rails by identifying "smells" Review some tools and strategies that teams can leverage when they need a cognitive reset to get them back on track How to apply tools and strategies in your own unique environments.

The document discusses metrics for software development teams. It notes that while measurement can improve performance, metrics may become targets and lose value. Common metrics like velocity and burndown can be gamed and are lagging indicators. Better metrics focus on work in progress, lead time, cycle time and flow. The author advocates measuring many things to understand impacts and causes of change.

Whether you've been working on an agile team for 6 months, or 6 years, the same obstacles tend to arise to trip us up over and over. Maybe your retrospectives feel more like a funeral and no one is participating anymore, your daily stand-ups have bloated into 25 team member status meetings, or your QA team is falling farther and farther behind the agile developers and feel like they’ll never catch up with their testing backlog. These are the kinds of issues I see all of the time. They lower team morale, lead to abandoned transformation initiatives, and ultimately your product and customers suffer because of it. But there’s a better way! As an agile coach and consultant, I have worked with dozens of teams to stop the bleeding, strengthen their relationships, mature their processes, and help them grow into high functioning agile machines. And to be clear, I’ve made mistakes as well! I’d like to share with the audience my own experiences and lessons-learned, including both what succeeded and what failed in hopes to lead you down the path to getting your own team “unstuck”.

If you're considering moving to Team Foundation Server or Visual Studio Team Services, this deck will walk you through the highlights, of which there are a TON!

Everything that I found interesting about machines behaving intelligently during June 2024

We are honored to launch and host this event for our UiPath Polish Community, with the help of our partners - Proservartner! We certainly hope we have managed to spike your interest in the subjects to be presented and the incredible networking opportunities at hand, too! Check out our proposed agenda below 👇👇 08:30 ☕ Welcome coffee (30') 09:00 Opening note/ Intro to UiPath Community (10') Cristina Vidu, Global Manager, Marketing Community @UiPath Dawid Kot, Digital Transformation Lead @Proservartner 09:10 Cloud migration - Proservartner & DOVISTA case study (30') Marcin Drozdowski, Automation CoE Manager @DOVISTA Pawel Kamiński, RPA developer @DOVISTA Mikolaj Zielinski, UiPath MVP, Senior Solutions Engineer @Proservartner 09:40 From bottlenecks to breakthroughs: Citizen Development in action (25') Pawel Poplawski, Director, Improvement and Automation @McCormick & Company Michał Cieślak, Senior Manager, Automation Programs @McCormick & Company 10:05 Next-level bots: API integration in UiPath Studio (30') Mikolaj Zielinski, UiPath MVP, Senior Solutions Engineer @Proservartner 10:35 ☕ Coffee Break (15') 10:50 Document Understanding with my RPA Companion (45') Ewa Gruszka, Enterprise Sales Specialist, AI & ML @UiPath 11:35 Power up your Robots: GenAI and GPT in REFramework (45') Krzysztof Karaszewski, Global RPA Product Manager 12:20 🍕 Lunch Break (1hr) 13:20 From Concept to Quality: UiPath Test Suite for AI-powered Knowledge Bots (30') Kamil Miśko, UiPath MVP, Senior RPA Developer @Zurich Insurance 13:50 Communications Mining - focus on AI capabilities (30') Thomasz Wierzbicki, Business Analyst @Office Samurai 14:20 Polish MVP panel: Insights on MVP award achievements and career profiling

Is your patent a vanity piece of paper for your office wall? Or is it a reliable, defendable, assertable, property right? The difference is often quality. Is your patent simply a transactional cost and a large pile of legal bills for your startup? Or is it a leverageable asset worthy of attracting precious investment dollars, worth its cost in multiples of valuation? The difference is often quality. Is your patent application only good enough to get through the examination process? Or has it been crafted to stand the tests of time and varied audiences if you later need to assert that document against an infringer, find yourself litigating with it in an Article 3 Court at the hands of a judge and jury, God forbid, end up having to defend its validity at the PTAB, or even needing to use it to block pirated imports at the International Trade Commission? The difference is often quality. Quality will be our focus for a good chunk of the remainder of this season. What goes into a quality patent, and where possible, how do you get it without breaking the bank? ** Episode Overview ** In this first episode of our quality series, Kristen Hansen and the panel discuss: ⦿ What do we mean when we say patent quality? ⦿ Why is patent quality important? ⦿ How to balance quality and budget ⦿ The importance of searching, continuations, and draftsperson domain expertise ⦿ Very practical tips, tricks, examples, and Kristen’s Musts for drafting quality applications https://www.aurorapatents.com/patently-strategic-podcast.html

Support en anglais diffusé lors de l'événement 100% IA organisé dans les locaux parisiens d'Iguane Solutions, le mardi 2 juillet 2024 : - Présentation de notre plateforme IA plug and play : ses fonctionnalités avancées, telles que son interface utilisateur intuitive, son copilot puissant et des outils de monitoring performants. - REX client : Cyril Janssens, CTO d’ easybourse, partage son expérience d’utilisation de notre plateforme IA plug & play.

In the modern digital era, social media platforms have become integral to our daily lives. These platforms, including Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Snapchat, offer countless ways to connect, share, and communicate.

An invited talk given by Mark Billinghurst on Research Directions for Cross Reality Interfaces. This was given on July 2nd 2024 as part of the 2024 Summer School on Cross Reality in Hagenberg, Austria (July 1st - 7th)

Solar Storms (Geo Magnetic Storms) are the motion of accelerated charged particles in the solar environment with high velocities due to the coronal mass ejection (CME).

These fighter aircraft have uses outside of traditional combat situations. They are essential in defending India's territorial integrity, averting dangers, and delivering aid to those in need during natural calamities. Additionally, the IAF improves its interoperability and fortifies international military alliances by working together and conducting joint exercises with other air forces.

The DealBook is our annual overview of the Ukrainian tech investment industry. This edition comprehensively covers the full year 2023 and the first deals of 2024.

As a popular open-source library for analytics engineering, dbt is often used in combination with Airflow. Orchestrating and executing dbt models as DAGs ensures an additional layer of control over tasks, observability, and provides a reliable, scalable environment to run dbt models. This webinar will cover a step-by-step guide to Cosmos, an open source package from Astronomer that helps you easily run your dbt Core projects as Airflow DAGs and Task Groups, all with just a few lines of code. We’ll walk through: - Standard ways of running dbt (and when to utilize other methods) - How Cosmos can be used to run and visualize your dbt projects in Airflow - Common challenges and how to address them, including performance, dependency conflicts, and more - How running dbt projects in Airflow helps with cost optimization Webinar given on 9 July 2024

Six months into 2024, and it is clear the privacy ecosystem takes no days off!! Regulators continue to implement and enforce new regulations, businesses strive to meet requirements, and technology advances like AI have privacy professionals scratching their heads about managing risk. What can we learn about the first six months of data privacy trends and events in 2024? How should this inform your privacy program management for the rest of the year? Join TrustArc, Goodwin, and Snyk privacy experts as they discuss the changes we’ve seen in the first half of 2024 and gain insight into the concrete, actionable steps you can take to up-level your privacy program in the second half of the year. This webinar will review: - Key changes to privacy regulations in 2024 - Key themes in privacy and data governance in 2024 - How to maximize your privacy program in the second half of 2024