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Author: KimC

TFS admin and deployment fellow

PS gallery stop for TLS 1.0&1.1

As of April 2020 the Powershell gallery block connections with TLS below 1.2

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Author KimCPosted on 05/05/202016/09/2020Tags PowershellLeave a comment on PS gallery stop for TLS 1.0&1.1

BuildDrop cleanup

There has been a lot of errors with various versions of TFS/DevOps Server about obsoleted builds in the drop folders, and the various versions have fixed part of it. Here comes a script to identify them.

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Author KimCPosted on 09/05/2019Tags Powershell, TFSLeave a comment on BuildDrop cleanup

Security fix for TFS 2017/2018

Microsoft released a new security fix for TFS.

see Link

Author KimCPosted on 13/03/2019Leave a comment on Security fix for TFS 2017/2018

Security fix for TFS 2017/2018

Microsoft have released security fixes for TFS 2017 and 2018.

See Link

Author KimCPosted on 16/01/201916/01/2019Tags TFSLeave a comment on Security fix for TFS 2017/2018

Cleanup workspaces

To be honest, how many of you do cleanup of workspaces when people leave or just get a new computer?

It is one of those tasks that it is good to execute regularly, to keep the numbers low, as it affects the upgrade speed of the TFS server.

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Author KimCPosted on 10/01/201910/01/2019Tags Powershell, TFSLeave a comment on Cleanup workspaces

Build blocked by Release

Due to the nature of the build and release services in TFS, strange things can happen.

Just discovered that we had some builds that was marked “retained by release”, as usual, but looking at the details pane, there wasn’t any related deployments, so we wasn’t able to delete those builds.

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Author KimCPosted on 13/12/2018Tags Powershell, TFSLeave a comment on Build blocked by Release

Security fix for TFS 2017 and 2018

Microsoft have release a hotfix for TFS 2017 and 2018, that fixes potential cross site scripting.

seeĀ TFS hotfix

Author KimCPosted on 07/11/2018Leave a comment on Security fix for TFS 2017 and 2018

List teams and users

From time to time, it can be handy to use the Team configuration and members in TFS to set permissions in another application.

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Author KimCPosted on 23/10/2018Tags Powershell, TFSLeave a comment on List teams and users

TFS Storage use part 3

In part 2 of this little story about storage use in TFS, we had a look at how the storage was consumed by areas. One of the biggest areas are usually related to build jobs.

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Author KimCPosted on 16/08/2018Tags TFSLeave a comment on TFS Storage use part 3

TFS storage use part 2

In the previous article we looked at the TFS storage growth over time.
Now it is time to dive into this and look at what is actually consuming the space.

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Author KimCPosted on 17/07/201818/07/2018Tags TFS1 Comment on TFS storage use part 2

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Kim Carlsen is a product owner, TFS admin and developer at KMD A/S.

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