I just found today that Hyper-V snapshots are recommended by Microsoft only for development and testing purposes. You should never try to use Hyper-V snapshots instead of fully functional backup solution! There is even more on the Hyper-V Virtual Machine Snapshots FAQ: Important Microsoft does not support the use of snapshots on virtual machines hosting […]
TFS for Small Teams
By Martin Kulov in Application Lifecycle No Comments
Brian Harry finally shared a long kept secret. TFS Basic, that is going to be part of the VSTS 2010 release, is the replacement tool for Source Safe users. TFS Basic is the all-in-one development system that combines Version Control, Bug Tracking and Build Automation. The beauty of it is the new install experience. There […]
Microsoft Bulgaria DPE blog
By Martin Kulov in Misc No Comments
Since recently, Microsoft Bulgaria launched a blog for news and events in the Development Platform area. Make sure that you subscribe to the RSS feed and you will receive important information about new releases from Microsoft and related events in Bulgaria. You can find the blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/dpe_bulgaria/
Norm Judah visits Bulgaria next month
By Martin Kulov in Events No Comments
Norm Judah, Chief Technology Officer – Worldwide Services and IT, will be visiting Bulgaria on 7th of October. He manages about 16,000 professionals in Microsoft Services worldwide. Norm will give inside information for the future of Software+Services in Microsoft and how technologies are going to change the way people communicate today. More information about the […]
Microsoft announced WebsiteSpark
By Martin Kulov in Misc No Comments
Microsoft announced the availability of WebsiteSpark program as a natural continuation after releasing BizSpark and DreamSpark programs.The program targets small entrepreneurial teams up to 10 people developing for the web. The program will get you with the tools in order to provide service in web site design and development. Considering the up coming Visual Studio […]
Project Server 2010 First Look Video
By Martin Kulov in Misc No Comments
Microsoft announced the new Microsoft Project 2010 on Microsoft Project Conference in Phoenix. Check out the amazing First Look demos of Microsoft Project 2010 and Project Server 2010. Most important – ActiveX controls are history now, MS Project looks to be much more agile planning tool, MS Project Server will have integration with TFS 2010 […]
Deploying PWA 2007
By Martin Kulov in Misc No Comments
If you are about to deploy Project Server 2007 and more specifically Project Web Access 2007 for the very first time, then you need the following guides. Walkthrough: Deploy Project Server 2007 to a server farm environmentThis is a four part video that shows how to install Project Server in a new WSS environment. Pay […]
Any CPU vs. x86 vs. x64
By Martin Kulov in Programming No Comments
If you have ever asked what is the difference between Any CPU, x86 and x64 options in Configuration Manager platform, the answers can be very scarce and scattered through all the Internet. However, Sayed Ibrahim, a fellow VSTS MVP has gathered in one all the responses he had so far. Check out his MSBuild: Building […]
Overwrite an Olap Database problem
By Martin Kulov in Misc No Comments
In disaster recovery situation, you may find that you can no longer generate the Project Server 2007 OLAP cube. The following error is logged in PWA log: ProjectServerOlapCubeGenerator status: ProjectServerOlapCubeGenerator failed with exception: Microsoft.Office.Project.PI.CBSCommon.CBSProcessException: Cannot overwrite an Olap database created outside of Project Server or by another Project Server Site. at ProjectServerOlapCubeGenerator.OlapDatabaseBuilder.VerifySiteOwner(Server dsoAnalisysServer, Database oldOlapDatabase, […]
Disaster Recovery of PWA 2007 site
By Martin Kulov in Misc 2 Comments
If you need to move your existing Project Web Access (PWA) web site to a new server, chances that you have only DB backups are pretty good. Also in situation of disaster recovery it is possible that your WSS backup just can not be taken or does not exist. Here are some basic steps that […]