As I noted earlier, folks at conchango.com were working on a Scrum template for Foundation Server: Beta 1 released today, info on how to get it available here.
November 9, 2005
SQL Server Service Broker “Error 15404″ Pain
I installed SQL Server 2005 in a VM, and started work on a small SSIS demo. I needed to get a quick queue up and running, so I followed the docs, created a dialog, sent a message on that conversation, and…nothing. No message sitting in the receive queue. A check of the sys.transmission_queue revealed this error:
An exception occurred while enqueueing a message in the target queue. Error: 15404, State: 11. Could not obtain information about Windows NT group/user ‘TESTINGAdministrator’, error code 0×534.
I was curious about the specific user name there–my VM is a workgroup computer, not part of a domain, and “TESTING” was the old machine name–I renamed it some time ago to “SQLVM”. I checked SecurityLogins in the Management Studio, and sure enough–there was “TESTINGAdministrator”. A quick right-click, rename to “SQLVMAdministrator”, retried the send, and everything worked.
November 7, 2005
What’s in Your FolderShare?
I’ve been using the paid version of FolderShare for several months now, and I love it, but I’m looking for ways to use it better. Right now, I have the following:
1) All my utility apps–think of it as yet another USB key
2) All my MSDN keys (I don’t know when they started this, but you can export your list in XML)
3) My Visual Studio 2005 settings file (Tools | Options | Environment | Import and Export Settings)
4) A recent addition, my PWM file
5) My browser (both of them) favorites
6) My current list of projects, all code, libs and docs associated with them
7) My MaxiVista Viewer client executables
If you haven’t tried FolderShare yet, you’re missing out on a great tool that goes a long way to simplify sharing between machines–it just works!
November 2, 2005
Scrum Process Template For VSTS
Finished an install of the Team Foundation Server Beta 3 Refresh (single server), and I was looking for a way to replace the combination of spreadsheets, whiteboards, XPlanner installs, and various other artifacts and systems used for our Scrum efforts. The Process Templates (more info here) in Visual Studio 2005 Team System seemed to be an interesting way to do this, but Beta 3 only ships with “Agile” and CMMI templates. A quick search uncovered this effort here (with another post, more info here), among others–nothing has been released yet from Comchango, but apparently they are accepting interested watchers by email, with a promise of more info next week. Waiting patiently…
