Deploying Windows Services from TFS

As part of our initiative to automate code deployments, we needed to move windows services from TFS to our test servers. The way we did this before was to have a build stage all the files and then either stop the services on the destination machine manually, copy files, and restart the services, or use …

Deploying to Multiple Locations in TFS 2010

This is just a forewarning, I am not an expert in the ways of TFS. I’ve only been working with TFS in general for about a year, and TFS 2010 for about 2 months or so. That being said, if anyone has recommendations on a better way to do this, please point me in the …

Week One Complete!

I’ve finished my first week at my new job. It’s a weird sensation. I feel like I’ve been there for quite a while already, but that time has gone by really fast. Maybe it has to do with the fact that i was totally sick for about half the week? The first three days were …