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How to Prevent Users from Moving Task to Closed State with a non-Zero value Remaining Work field in VSTS/TFS
One workflow problem we see in VSTS/TFS projects is people move the Task to Closed or Resolved state without updating the Remaining Work to Zero which leads to some incorrect project reports. In theory, there should be no Remaining work for Closed or Resolved Tasks. One of our customer had this below requirement. Wanted share…
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Dashboard Migrator Tool
Hi All, In this post I'm gonna show you The Dashboard Migrator that helps you to copy the dashboard across different teams within the same Team Project easing the need of setting up the data to multiple teams which includes data like widgets, charts, Build summary etc. To do so browse to the VSTS MarketPlace…
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Canarys Automations Pvt Ltd recognized as finalist for 2017 Microsoft DevOps Partner of the Year Award
Bengaluru, Karnataka, India — June 2, 2017 — Canarys Automations Pvt Ltd today announced it has been named a finalist in the 2017 Microsoft DevOps Partner of the Year Award. The company was honored among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation…
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Bugzilla to TFS Migrator (Part 2 of 4) – Installation
This is the second part of the Bugzilla to TFS Migrator blog series covering the installation of the migration tool for migration from Bugzilla to TFS 2013. The Bugzilla to TFS Migrator tool is available for download from the link http://ecanarys.com/products/bugzilla-tfs-migrator on the Canarys website. Click on the “Click here to Download” button, provide the…
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Bugzilla to TFS Migrator (Part 1 of 4) – Introduction
Many of us have been big fans of Bugzilla and have been using it to track bugs for many years. Bugzilla was a great web based tool and helped immensely in managing defects found by the testing team. Though Bugzilla was great for bug tracking, it offered very little help in the other aspects of…
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Bugzilla to TFS Migrator (Part 4 of 4) – Migration
This is the final part of the Bugzilla to TFS Migrator blog series covering the actual steps of migration from Bugzilla to TFS 2013. To initiate the migration, run the Bugzilla Migrator Tool. The Bugzilla URL will be picked from the information provided during the installation. Click on the button beside the TFS Collection field…
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Bugzilla to TFS Migrator (Part 3 of 4) – Configuration
This is the third part of the Bugzilla to TFS Migrator blog series covering the configuration of the migration tool for migration from Bugzilla to TFS 2013. The Bugzilla to TFS Migrator tool requires few configurations to be completed, prior to use. One of the requirements is to have a customized TFS bug work item…
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TFS 2013 Build Template Customization
How to enable logging verbosity process parameter in build definition? Verbosity for a build will help us to debug the build results to see what exactly went into build. In TFS 2013, default build process template TfvcTemplate.12.xaml verbosity level is set to “Normal” by default and if we need to change the verbosity level we…
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Automating .NET builds using CCNET and TFS
CruiseControl.NET (CCNET) is an open source tool used for continuous builds on server, where testing is required parallel to development. CCNET periodically checks the version control for changes to codebase, builds the source code if any modifications found, publish the build to website hosted location and notifies the build status software stakeholders. Here I am…
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Migrating TFS 2013 Version Control to TFS Git with changeset history
There are several articles on the web describing the migration technique with minimal details. This article is an effort to provide the complete information to successfully migrate from the TFS VC to the TFS GIT VC. TFS ‘out-of-the-box’ does not provide any tools to export import source code or changesets. Usually, if we want to…