May 28, 2013 by Mohamed Radwan (MVP)

ALM Mag – TFS Command Line

It has been sometimes since I blog post here and this because I was in a business trip and I just comeback. I really missed my blog so much..

Recently my blog post “TF.exe Fast Overview” got featured in the ALM Mag Issue 3 – May 2013.

So what is ALM Mag?

ALM Mag will feature articles from the best and the brightest in the industry who will share their knowledge expertise and experiences. This knowledge will come in the form of: Whitepapers, Study results, Blog, How To, Step-by-Step and Top Tip articles. Our contributors will provide Reviews of Primary Tools and Third Party Integrated or Bridging Tools as new versions are released. They will also provide reviews of relevant Books and community related Events.

Periodically, ALM Mag will invite you to participate in Surveys to learn your areas of community participation so we might address those interests and also importantly, to help gauge how the magazine is doing at covering what you want to see.

Several times each year the magazine will feature industry leaders and evangelists from the ALM, DevOps, Agile, TFS and Testing community, on the cover accompanying an interview inside the issue.

Magazines in an electronic format afford several advantages, allowing the embedding of links to streaming video and audio such as recorded Webinars and Podcasts along with video seminars or Courseware, Tutorials and Training. ALM Mag will also provide a Calendar and information about upcoming Events and a valuable Resource section.

If you want to contribute or subscribe you can see the following:

If you are interested in contributing to the ALM magazine, follow the guidelines and submission processhere.
ALM Mag is currently offering a discounted annual subscription, I would encourage you to take advantage and enrol here.

October 1, 2012 by Mohamed Radwan (MVP)

I am now a Visual Studio ALM MVP!!

Updated on October, 10th, 2012

If you really fall in love with someone I think the best thing ever on the earth is that this person loves you too, this is the Visual Studio ALM MVP for me, it’s simply that Visual Studio ALM loves me too……..

Today I just received an e-mail told me that Visual Studio really loves me too……here is the content….

Dear Mohamed Radwan,

Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2012 Microsoft® MVP Award! This award is given to exceptional technical community leaders who actively share their high quality, real world expertise with others. We appreciate your outstanding contributions in Visual Studio ALM technical communities during the past year.

Also in this email:

About your MVP Award Gift
How to claim your award benefits
Your MVP Identification Number
MVP Award Program Code of Conduct

The Microsoft MVP Award provides us the unique opportunity to celebrate and honor your significant contributions and say “Thank you for your technical leadership.”

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It’s really amazing to join the Visual Studio ALM MVPs group that is always inspired and learned me a lot.
Thanks for all people around me, family that stand beside me, support and understand my passion, thanks for friends for being there and encourage me all the time and even thanks for my enemies that challenge me to prove that software can be really preformed as it is suppose to be and we can be the best only if we really believe that we are…

I really want to thank Microsoft including all people nominated me, thanks for Visual Studio team for this great and wonderful product that we will keep to improve together and special thanks for Mike Fourie Charles Sterling, Brian Keller and Gregg Boer

Begin of update

My MVP Award Kit!

September 6, 2012 by Mohamed Radwan (MVP)

MEA ALM Community and TFS 2012 Guide launch!

I am really happy to announce about the launch of MEA ALM Community with the first publication TFS (Team Foundation Server 2012) Visual Guide, really it was a pleasured to work in a great team with Ayman El-Hattab and Hosam Kamel.

MEA ALM Community

The Visual Guide for Building Team Foundation Server 2012 Environments

Be close and tuned we still have more……………………….. this is only the beginning!

July 18, 2012 by Mohamed Radwan (MVP)

Why I don’t like Saturday and Sunday!

When you start looking to my blog status on WordPress, you will realize the truth which is why I don’t like Saturday and Sunday at all, in a simple word, it is the community vacation, of course it’s not only in on my blog, it’s everywhere in MSDN forum, Stackoverflow, emails, I can feel that with the number of asked questions and the number of answers.

I feel like the community is shutting down during these days and it coming back after them, this also reflect very important points, that people outside, most of my visitors, respect weekend so much as they respect their work, work hard and play hard.

But unfortunately here we don’t work hard or even play hard but we sleep hard!!! this our probelm that we try to change in our community and I believe we will make a huge different but without the real community follow and feedback we talk to ourselves.

So the day that Saturday and Sunday grown up and become longer than the others, the day that I Know our local and regional community is coming up.

We are rally working for the Rise of Local and Regional Community

Join us to sucess together

MEA ALM Community

March 6, 2012 by Mohamed Radwan (MVP)

Upgrade TFS 11 beta failure and it’s solution

When I start upgrading the TFS 2010 to TFS 11 Beta (Visual Studio 11 Beta Team Foundation Sever) I have the following error

Error: Package (tfs_objectmodel_x64) caching failed with the following status 0×80070001
Error TF400166 : Package caching failed. Check individual package cache errors for more information.
Error: installation failed. Check individual package installation errors for more information.

As the following image

When I check the logo I found the following error line in the log file

Error 0×80070001: Failed attempt to copy payload from: ‘D:\packages\TFSObjectModel\x64\TFSObjectModel-x64.msi’ to: C:\Users\mradwan\AppData\Local\Temp\2\{519da648-4da6-44e1-af66-effd6d65f194}\tfs_objectmodel_x64.

When I try to manual copy “tfs_objectmodel_x64″, it fails so I just extract the ISO again from the source and try copy it, it works but when I try to setup TFS 11 Beta again, it gives me the same error but with different log information in this time, it was as the following

Error 0x800b0003: Failed authenticode verification of payload: C:\ProgramData\Package Cache\.unverified\tfs_objectmodel_x64