Global Corporate Challenge
May 31, 2006 at 11:47 am | In Readify | 1 CommentThe Global Corporate Challenge kicked off last week – it’s where companies from all of Australia enter teams of people who will wear pedometers for 6 months and enter their steps each day into the website.
As Frank notes, his team isn’t doing too well. Here’s how they stack up against the rest of us at 2006–05–31:
Looks like I’ve got some catching up to do. I’m planning a few overnight hikes in the coming months – this should help prop my average up. My mini-goal is to get to 30,000 steps so that I have to enter a “reason for so many steps” in the website.
Go Team!
TFS Reports not displaying: WorkItemTypeParam
May 30, 2006 at 12:45 am | In Team Foundation Server | 1 CommentRecently I ran across a problem on a new install of Team Foundation Server 180–day trial version in a dual-server setup.
Team members could list all the reports within the Team Project, but most of them didn’t work.
In particular the Remaining Work report failed with the following error:
An error has occurred during report processing (rsProcessingAborted)
Query execution failed for data set ‘WorkItemTypeParam’ (rsErrorExecutingCommand)
Query (19, 3) The ALLMEMBERS function expects a heirarchy expression for the argument. A member expression was used.
Where would you start? I tried forcing the TFS data warehouse and OLAP cubes to update, however this didn’t work. After invoking the “Run” webservice, it went to RunningAdapters then to Idle very quickly. Being a new install, I figured that it was just running really fast.
When this didn’t work, I found this post by Othmane Rahmouni on the MSDN TFS – Reporting forums. The first solution worked for me.
Solution
Stop and restart SQL Server Analysis Services Service and then re-run the adapters and ensure that they are done running and processing the OLAP and check to see if it is working and if you see any errors in the event log.
Alternative Solution
Back up the contents of C:\Program Files\Microsoft SQL Server\MSSQL.2\OLAP\Data and then delete it. Run SetupWarehouse -o to recreate the cube, run the adapters, wait and check again
See my blog post Forcing Data Warehouse update for TFS for instructions on running the adapters.
Vista Performance Ratings
May 28, 2006 at 10:03 am | In Windows Vista | 3 CommentsSeeing as we’re having a swinging competition, here’s my contribution from Windows Vista’s System Performance Rating screen. (Press WinKey+PauseBreak)
Sorry to break the news to you Geoff, but I don’t think 5 is the maximum – maybe it’s opened ended so it copes with lots of new hardware.
No doubt Mitch will beat us all given enough time to get his new laptop.
TFS Source Control: No Commands Available
May 26, 2006 at 2:24 pm | In Team Foundation Server | 49 CommentsToday we had an issue at a client site while setting up Team Foundation Server. They had Visual Studio Professional edition installed and TFS installed in a domain.
The particular user we were using was setup within a group that was a member of the Team Foundation Server Adminstrators group and they were able to create new Team Projects.
When it came to opening / creating a solution in Source Control, none of the source control options showed up. For example:
In Source Control Explorer, all the context menus said “No Commands Available” and everything was greyed out.
When creating a new project / solution, the Add solution to Source Control was missing.
The Solution
After a sheepish call for help to Mitch, we discovered that the current source control plug-in was set to None instead of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server.
So the fix for this is to go to Tools | Options | Source Control | Plug-In Selections and select Visual Studio Team Foundation Server. Select OK then try Source Control Explorer again.
Now you should have access to the correct context menus and source control check-in policies.
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