Team Foundation Server 2012 - Installation Process and Requirements

by Raveesh 26. June 2012 10:11

Operating System Requirements
Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2012 can be installed on a server running on any one of the following operating systems

  • 64-bit version of Windows Server 2008  with SP2
  • 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2008 R2 with SP1
  • 64-bit versions of Windows Server 2012 

Ports and accounts for Team Foundation Server 2012

Accounts
Report Reader Account

Reporting TFSREPORTS You must specify a user account that has the Allow log on locally permission.

Default: You are prompted for this account. You cannot use a built-in account for the report reader account.

Service Accounts 

Team Foundation Server TFSSERVICE

You can specify a built-in account or a user account. If you specify a user account, it must have the Log on as service permission.

Default: Network Service
Team Foundation Build TFSBUILD

You can specify a built-in account or a user account. If you use a user account, it must have the Log on as service permission.

Default: Network Service

Team Foundation Server TFSPROXY

You can specify a built-in account or a user account. If you use a user account, it must have the Log on as service permission.

Default: Network Service

 Ports

Required ports for SQL Server

Server or Application Context

TCP Port

SQL Service (Database Engine)

14331

SQL Browser Service (Database Engine)

1434

SQL Server Analysis Services Redirector

2382

SQL Server Analysis Services

2383

SQL Server Reporting Services

80

Required ports for SharePoint products

These port numbers might be different for existing deployments of SharePoint Products. You can determine which port numbers SharePoint Products uses by opening Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager and looking at the properties of the websites

Default website

80

SharePoint Central Administration

17012

Required Ports for Team Foundation Server

Team Foundation Server

8080

Team Foundation Server Proxy

8081

Team Foundation Build Service 9191

Your firewall controls remote connections, and Team Foundation Server requires remote connections. You must ensure that your firewall does not block the connections Team Foundation Server requires. The tables in this topic show the default settings for TCP ports that Team Foundation Server, SQL Server, and SharePoint Products require.

Access step by step instructions for installing Team Foundation Server 2012 here - Installing-tfs-2012-step-by-step-instructions.pdf (1.38 mb)

What is Microsoft Kinect?

by Amit Wadhwani 21. June 2012 15:36

Kinect is one of the most happening and latest products launched by Microsoft. It is replacing the touch technology with gesture recognition technology. It is a motion sensing input device which works with the Microsoft's most popular video game console, the Xbox 360 and Windows based computers. It enables users to control the Xbox console or a windows PC with the gesture command and voice command.

To read the full post, visit our recently published article at - http://ezinearticles.com/?What-Is-Microsoft-Kinect&id=7129942

Integrating Team Foundation Server 2010 with SharePoint 2010

by Raveesh 8. June 2012 14:26

Once TFS 2010 installed on your server you need to configure it on the server by giving the existing SQL Server 2008 Instance. When it is successfully configured then you can start working on TFS 2010 in VS 2010. TFS can support sophisticated environments that include reporting, SharePoint integration, and support across multiple domains, distributed databases, etc.

Below are the steps to be followed for integrating TFS 2010 with SP 2010

Step 1
Open Team Foundation Administration ConsoleConfigure Extensions for SharePoint Products Configuration Wizard this will take some time and this will be configured only if TFS is installed properly in the server.

Step 2
Once SharePoint extensions installed properly you need to configure SP 2010 Managed Path for TFS 2010. In order for TFS to automatically create your project portals you need a wildcard managed path setup. This is where TFS will create the portal during the creation of a new Team project.

To find the managed paths page for any application you need to first select the “Managed web applications from SharePoint central admin > Managed web application > select the application > click on managed path” link from the SharePoint 2010 Central Administration screen.

I have given the path as “sites” of type Wildcard inclusion for the website http://yourserver  (You can create site as per your configuration i.e. http://yourserver:port )which I have created for specifically integrate TFS with SP 2010.

Step 3
Open Team Foundation Administration ConsoleNow we need to configure TFS 2010 connection to SP 2010. Navigate to the “SharePoint Web Applications” section. Here you click “Add” and enter the details for the Managed path we just created.

Step 4
Once we added the managed path details we need to Configure SharePoint 2010 to connect to Team Foundation Server 2010. On your SharePoint 2010 server open the Team Foundation Server Administration Console and select the “Extensions for SharePoint Products and Technologies” node. Here we need to “grant access” for our TFS 2010 server to create sites. Click the “Grant access” link and fill out the full URL to the TFS server, for http://yourserver/sites

Step 5
Once we granted access to the URL now we need to configure the Team Foundation Server 2010 Team Project Collection to create new sites in SharePoint 2010. Click the Edit Default Site Location button. Select our web application “TFSSITE” which we have given as “name” in Step: 2.

Step 6
In our case we wanted to configure a TFS project to an existing SharePoint site. You can manually configure this connection from Team Explorer. Right click the project, select Team Project Settings and select Portal Settings. Next, check the Enable team project portal checkbox in the popup window. Then click the Configure URL button. In the popup windows that appears, select the web application “TFSSITE” that hosts your SharePoint site. 

Basic gestures and associated Kinect actions

by Vipul Bhavsar 4. June 2012 13:00
Kinect identifies basic body gestures and execute relevant actions for every gesture. Here is a list of the basic gestures and their associated actions.
 
  • Wave around slowly to move objects
       
  • Bow forwards to accept conditions in app (follows cultural gesture)
     
 
  • Head left-right to deny (follows cultural gesture)
 
     
  • Two handed pinch for zoom in/out
  
 
  • Point somewhere to highlight stuff
   
 
  • Hands to eyes for search
    
 
  • Move step forward  to enter in the app
         
 
 
  • Other common gesture is the mouse cursor invocation, which is characterized by a vigorous waving motion.  Once instantiated, a person needs to drive it over to a button (no easy task) and then push their hand forward in a sort of “high-five” manner to press it.
 
      
 
 
 
Click Here to download the vector files of above gestures

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Kinect Development | Kinect UI Designing

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