Windows Server

Installing TFS 2012 - Error: TF400069 A required component is not installed on the application tier

If your TFS Application Tier resides on a different instance of windows to your SQL Server, you may come across this error... The issue here is that TFS needs the SQL Server Client Tools installing on the same box, so it can manipulate the data via the Analysis Services API.

Windows Server

Gotcha – Unauthorised 401 on IIS

One of the most common issues i see developers having with running websites on IIS7 – 8 is permissions. When IIS7 was made available it introduced the concept of an ‘Application Pool Identity’, which effectively means that the host process for your site in IIS is run under the context of

Windows Server

Giving the App Pool Identity folder permissions in IIS7 on Windows Server 2008 (First Release)

When setting up a new Application Pool in IIS7 the default user (or identity) is ApplicationPoolIdentity which is a specific user account with minimal rights, created specifically for that application pool to run under the context of that user. In Windows Server 2008 (the Vanilla version, as this is ‘slightly