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TSWA State Diagram Colours

In Team System Web Access, there is a nifty feature that shows you the state diagram for a particular work item type. This shows the different states defined for a work item, the transitions available between states and the reasons for the transitions.
Recently a customer asked me “What do the coloured lines between the states [...]

Teredo Tunneling Pseudo-Interface and IPv6

So you’ve installed Windows Vista and you’ve run ‘ipconfig /all’ from the command prompt. You might have noticed a few extra interfaces, but not really understand what they are. You trust Microsoft to be secure-by-default, so you forget about them.

If your brain works anything like mine, the word ‘Teredo’ will stand out as a keyword [...]

IPv6 and the IPv6 Experiment

I’ve always prided myself on being a networking geek and knowing how the Internet works. I understand how protocols, ports, routers, NAT, IP addresses, DNS, etc work. I feel like it’s given me the edge on some of my peers and it’s certainly helped me troubleshoot and understand issues quickly.
I learnt most of this stuff [...]

TFS Installation Error 28805

I was doing a new Team Foundation Server installation tonight and setup looked to be going fine. Then at the very end of the installation I got the following error message:
Error 28805.Setup cannot finish the request to the SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services report server. Verify that SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services report server is [...]