Migrating TFS 2008 Project Portal

I had a strange problem last week. I was trying to access the WSS portal site for one of our TFS projects. We migrated the TFS to a new domain and the portal site was working before that.

However now I’ve got the lovely “404 NOT FOUND” message. More interestingly when I tried to create a new site collection with the same name, WSS told me that the site is already created. I could not see that in the site collection list page though.

By pure luck I decided to use the command line tool stsadm to enumerate all the existing site collections. I found that my site is already created indeed, however the owner of the site was an user from our old domain. What I did is basically change the owner to the correct domain and user, again using the stsadm tool, and volla – I was able to access the TFS project portal site again.

Windows Azure Pricing

Microsoft has just announced the pricing for the Windows Azure services. The big news were announced during the Worldwide Partner Conference 2009. The service will be commercially available at PDC 2009 in the middle of November, 2009.

Why Windows Azure is important and how to use it, you can learn much more about at the upcoming DevReach 2009 on 12-13 October, 2009.

With the pricing model per message, operation and transaction – this is where we will be talking about performance and architecture. The best written application – the less money paid. The free lunch is now really over :)

Here is what Microsoft is promising:

For compute, we guarantee that when you deploy two or more role instances in different fault and upgrade domains your Internet facing roles will have external connectivity at least 99.95% of the time.

…

For storage, we guarantee that at least 99.9% of the time we will successfully process correctly formatted requests that we receive to add, update, read and delete data.

Bulgaria is currently not in the planned launch schedule, but I am sure it will come soon. If not, partners from other countries is always an option.

SharePoint 2010 Sneak Peek

You can now get a sneak peek of what is coming SharePoint 2010 with demos presented from the Microsoft Product team itself.

This is the first information released about SharePoint 2010 for now.

Watch the video here.

Judging at Imagine Cup 2009

Today are the Imagine Cup 2009 finals at Cairo. I have the honor to be selected as member of the jury for Software Design category.

Imagine Cup is the world’s largest student competition for Microsoft technologies. Bulgaria is also represented by the MindPoint team from Technical University of Sofia. Members of the team are Kiril Rusev, Nikola Kosev, Dilyan Rusev and Raya Yunakova mentored by Milena Lazarova.

We are all excited to be here and looking forward for the final rounds starting in less than 6 hours. Big thanks to Microsoft Bulgaria for their continuous commitment to make Bulgarian students part of this amazing experience.

You can vote for your favorite team and application at the following address:

http://peopleschoice.imaginecup.com

Go and vote now! The teams need your vote.