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Encountered an issue with search in Mac Outlook?

For updated instructions, please see our team blog...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 04/14/2015

Adding an Office 365 email account to Mac Outlook 2011

Mac Outlook 2011 supports Office 365 email accounts! The entry point in the UI for Office 365 or...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 06/09/2014

Rest of posts in Reporting in TFS 2010 series!

Finding time for finishing these posts didn't work out but I tried! I still get emails for this, so...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 02/16/2012

Where are the rest of the posts in the Reporting in TFS 2010 series?

I was posting a series of topics on Reporting in Team Foundation Server 2010 but never got the...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 01/12/2011

When trying to enable reporting after upgrading my server I get a schema warning

A couple of customers have reached out recently with this question, so I wanted to elaborate how...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 04/27/2010

Reporting in Team Foundation Server 2010 – Part 8: Custom Reports: Options & Tools

In my last post in this series I covered the new feature for generating reports in Microsoft Excel...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 04/07/2010

TFS 2010 Warehouse Sample Adapter is now available!

We have been working on getting a sample adapter ready for you to build a custom warehouse adapter...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 04/02/2010

Team Foundation Server 2010 – Cube Schema Changes in RTM

I posted this topic outlining the cube schema changes we made in Beta 2. We had made it a point not...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 03/03/2010

Reporting in Team Foundation Server – Part 7: Excel Reports from Work Item Queries

In my last post in this series, I covered the new SQL RS reports we have in TFS 2010. Let’s look at...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 03/02/2010

Adding Reports & Dashboards and Updating Reports on an existing Team Project

I have heard questions around these scenarios from several people lately: Adding reports and/or...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 02/24/2010

Reporting in Team Foundation Server 2010 - Part 6: Rich SQL Reporting Services Reports

I started this series with a set of topics and broke the first one down into sub topics to cover the...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 02/23/2010

Reporting in Team Foundation Server 2010 - Part 5: SharePoint Foundation Dashboard

In my last post, I covered the topic on creating a team dashboard. Let’s look at the dashboard...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 02/18/2010

Reporting in Team Foundation Server 2010 – Part 4: SharePoint Dashboards: Creating a team dashboard

In my last post, I covered customizing the SharePoint Server dashboard. The next topic is creating a...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 02/02/2010

Reporting in Team Foundation Server 2010 – Part 3: SharePoint Dashboards: SharePoint Server dashboard customization

In my last post, I covered the out-of-the-box experience with SharePoint Server dashboard. Let’s...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 01/07/2010

Reporting in Team Foundation Server 2010 – Part 2: SharePoint Dashboards: SharePoint Server dashboard

In my last post, I outlined the out-of-the-box reporting options available in 2010: SharePoint...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 01/05/2010

Reporting in Team Foundation Server 2010 – Part 1: Introduction

This is the first chapter in the series on Reporting in Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010. In this...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 11/24/2009

Team Foundation Server 2010 – Cube Schema Changes in Beta 2

In my last post, I wrote about the relational warehouse and cube schema changes coming your way in...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 10/19/2009

Team Foundation Server 2010 - Relational Warehouse and Cube Schema Changes

[Update 10/19/2009] The changes detailed in this post are still applicable for TFS 2010. I just...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 05/16/2009

Work Item rules workaround: Cannot close task unless Remaining Work is zero

In the last post in this series, Gregg blogged about restricting a bug such that only the creator...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 04/24/2009

Work Item rules workaround: Saving the resolved reason

In our last post in this series, Gregg blogged about securing a work item type on our team blog....

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 03/31/2009

Work Item rules workaround: Deactivating a work item type

My colleague, Gregg, and I have been posting a series of workarounds to achieve scenarios in Work...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 03/24/2009

My posts on Team Foundation Server

Buck Hodges, one of our Dev Managers, recently referenced one my posts and I got a couple of emails...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 03/24/2009

TfsAdminUtil and Reporting Services service account

The following is a snapshot of the error that you might see if the Reporting Services data sources...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 01/12/2007

Visual Studio Team System Chat tomorrow - Wed, Nov 8th

Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 11/07/2006

User Account Control (UAC): Do you want to turn it off?

I have read posts on how to turn User Account Control (UAC, formerly LUA) in Windows Vista off....

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 11/06/2006

A start...

My name is Sunder Raman and I am currently working on Work Item Tracking feature of Team Foundation...

Author: Sunder Raman Date: 11/01/2006