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| We are currently running a very small BT dev team .i.e. ME. We have finished
the prototyping and are now about to up the dev team to about 5. I would
like to use Virtual PC for the developer stations. To help enforce a
standard development environment and allow for a statdard solution layout etc.
I have limited experience with Virtual PC and distributed BTS development.
Anyone know of any good step by step guides to implementing this.
I would like the ability to simply give out generic builds to my dev team.
I want to run SQL Server and BTS on the same Virtual PC and also all of the
dev tools
Use sysprep to allow myself to uniquely name each Virtual Build.
However with the issues with machine names and the BizTAlk environment. Is
it possible to simply use 'localhost' and local services where needed. Or do
I have to build individual scripted installs for SQL and BTS and then
transfer all of the compiled solution manually to the test server.
We are also looking at upgrading to BTS2K6 once it is released, not sure if
this makes a difference to our virtual development environment ???
Thank-you
JOH
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| Scott Colestock 2005-12-19, 5:54 pm |
| You probably want to take a look at Alan Smith's posts here:
http://geekswithblogs.net/asmith/ar...4/26/38465.aspx
(and the post he links to:
http://geekswithblogs.net/dmillard/...05/14/4884.aspx)
Scott Colestock
www.traceofthought.net
"JOH" <JOH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:E157FBB1-2E54-411A-B077-24ED614EB513@microsoft.com...
> We are currently running a very small BT dev team .i.e. ME. We have
> finished
> the prototyping and are now about to up the dev team to about 5. I would
> like to use Virtual PC for the developer stations. To help enforce a
> standard development environment and allow for a statdard solution layout
> etc.
>
> I have limited experience with Virtual PC and distributed BTS development.
>
> Anyone know of any good step by step guides to implementing this.
> I would like the ability to simply give out generic builds to my dev team.
>
> I want to run SQL Server and BTS on the same Virtual PC and also all of
> the
> dev tools
>
> Use sysprep to allow myself to uniquely name each Virtual Build.
> However with the issues with machine names and the BizTAlk environment.
> Is
> it possible to simply use 'localhost' and local services where needed. Or
> do
> I have to build individual scripted installs for SQL and BTS and then
> transfer all of the compiled solution manually to the test server.
>
> We are also looking at upgrading to BTS2K6 once it is released, not sure
> if
> this makes a difference to our virtual development environment ???
>
> Thank-you
>
> JOH
>
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| I need some more information about the Domain Model being used on the VPCs
Is it a case of all of the VPC are in separate domains (but all of the
domains are the same) They are excluded from each other using the NAT trick
as per the second link below. This virtual Domain could infact be the final
domain that the machines are due to run on and so we could do full testing on
a per machine basis and still have access to Source Safe. Or is it
sufficient to simply use local services on the VPC development machines?
Cheers
JOH
"Scott Colestock" wrote:
> You probably want to take a look at Alan Smith's posts here:
> http://geekswithblogs.net/asmith/ar...4/26/38465.aspx
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> (and the post he links to:
> http://geekswithblogs.net/dmillard/...05/14/4884.aspx)
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> Scott Colestock
> www.traceofthought.net
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> "JOH" <JOH@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:E157FBB1-2E54-411A-B077-24ED614EB513@microsoft.com...
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