| 18:00 | waiting for last developers to check in their code. |
| 18:05 | R&D manager sends “Good luck” |
| 18:15 | Still waiting |
| 18:20 | Last check in |
| 18:25 | Waiting for last build to complete |
| 18:40 | Get latest sources for backup |
| 18:45 | Shutdown IIS, SharePoint and Reporting |
| 18:45 | checking no connection to DBs |
| 18:55 | Running backup task on DBs |
| 19:27 | Copying DB backup files to another machine (to be on the safe side) |
| 19:40 | still copying latest sources to another computer |
| 20:00 | Ghost backup |
| 20:18 | Detaching all DBs |
| 20:30 | Trying to boot from Win 2008 R2 installation disk. The server doesn’t recognize the DVD. |
| 20:40 | Trying to connect USB DVD… same problem. |
| 21:00 | Trying to use Network Deployment |
| 21:30 | We get the OS task sequence on the server – but it doesn’t work |
| 22:00 | We try to fix the problem by recreating the task sequence but now we don’t see it at all |
| 22:05 | One of us driving home to bring IDE to USB cables to connect a standard DVD Drive |
| 22:35 | He is back – it seems to work After few minutes – the cables stop to response… |
| 22:40 | We decide to limit ourselves till 00:00 - then switch to VM |
| 22:50 | I drive home and bring my USB DVD Drive It works! |
| 23:00 | Windows 2008 R2 doesn’t have drivers to Intel 7320 RAID controller trying to find drivers |
| 23:10 | Searching for a floppy diskette (and a computer with floppy drive) |
| 23:20 | Drivers don’t fit |
| 23:30 | Searching… |
| 23:55 | Finding the correct drivers (64 bit) |
| 00:00 | RAID recognized! |
| 00:03 | Error 80300001 – can’t install – we are in panic |
| 00:05 | Thanks Don't Panic blog for telling us we need to return the installation media back… |
| 00:10 | Error 80070017 – burning another DVD. |
| 00:25 | First machine connected to the domain (Data Layer) |
| 00:35 | starting to Install windows updates |
| 00:42 | First restart of TSDB |
| 00:49 | Preparing To Configure Windows. Please Do Not Turn Off Your Computer… By some blogs – this can take hours… |
| 01:43 | TSDB restarted (Only ~1 hour) |
| 01:50 | Installing .Net 3.5 on TSDB |
| 01:53 | Starting SQL 2008 installation |
| 02:11 | Installing IIS on Foundation (Application Tier) |
| 02:16 | Installing SQL 2008 SP1 on TSDB |
| 02:17 | Installing .Net 3.5 on Foundation |
| 02:25 | Installing SQL 2008 on Foundation |
| 02:30 | Problems with Permissions on drive D |
| 03:00 | Issue solved by giving the permissions again on D root cascading. |
| 03:05 | Tea break |
| 03:18 | Finish configure Reporting Service (with new DB. old one renamed) |
| 03:30 | Installing SharePoint Services and configure |
| 04:55 | After wasting 1.5 hours on permissions issue – finished to attach DBs |
| 05:05 | Installing VS 2008 on Foundation |
| 05:10 | Configure SharePoint website |
| 05:20 | Restoring old Content DB into the newly created SharePoint site |
| 05:45 | Finishing installation of VS 2008 (with all editions) |
| 05:50 | Installing VS 2010 on Foundation |
| 06:13 | Starting TFS 2010 installation |
| 06:23 | Configuration tool start to run |
| 06:28 | Configuration on step 96 (Version Control) It should take some hours. So we go to sleep. |
| 10:00 | Step 146… |
| 12:40 | TFS Installation completed successfully!!! more configurations will be made later. |
| 13:40 | Our DBA crated backup task – and ran it |
| 13:52 | Backup completed |
| 14:46 | Finished to switch folders to branches |
| 16:27 | VS 2010 installed on Build machine |
| 16:30 | Proxy server (Beta) configured to work with the upgraded instance |
| 16:42 | Team Build installed |
To be continued after Shabbat…
| 19:20 | Trying to run build It failed because of workspace problem Removing workspaces and try again |
| 19:40 | Build failed because of ResGen bug of long command lines. known issue – will be solved by removing all not needed resx files. |
| 20:50 | Build still fails because workspace still connected to old URL. Need to install compatible Team Explorer for VS 2008 |
| 21:11 | Build passed! |
| 22:30 | Important build passed (after switching TF path in environment variables) |
| 22:56 | Configured our internal extension web service for TFS |
| 23:08 | Working Items customized event works |
| 00:40 | Timesheet implementation (in TFS WorkItems) works as well |
| 01:00 | Diff build doesn’t work correctly |
| 01:11 | new WIs and Categories Imported |
| 02:30 | Diff build still do make problems: the order of the build is incorrect, and the incremental flag is ignored. Need to see if the diff will overcome this or not |
| 03:45 | Diff still a problem – will be left for another day |
| 04:07 | Sending mail to all users |
