Free Sypher Mug & Deskspace Today with Check-in

In celebration of Foursquare Day (#4sqday), we are having a little fun with Foursquare!

Until we fill up or run out of mugs, free desk space and Sypher mug (4/16 ONLY) for anyone who checks into our co-working center on Bluegrass Parkway.  Come out and preview the place before we start charging!  E-mail us at sypher-info @ sypher.com to reserve a desk, or just drop by for a mug!

Converting SourceSafe Databases to Team Foundation Server 2010

If you've been trying to move your SourceSafe 2005 database to the new Team Foundation Server 2010 using the help found at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181247.aspx, you may have run into the following problem:

TF60070: Unable to connect to the Team Foundation Server: 'http://Servername:8080/'. Please ensure that the Team Foundation Server exists and try again.

With the new TFS 2010, you also need to include collection information in the tag. This is what our settings.xml file looked like when I finally got this to work:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<SourceControlConverter>
  <ConverterSpecificSetting>
    <Source name="VSS">
      <VSSDatabase name="c:\VSS"></VSSDatabase>
      <SQL Server="." />
    </Source>
    <ProjectMap>
      <Project Source="$/" Destination="$/SourceSafe Backup"></Project>
    </ProjectMap>
  </ConverterSpecificSetting>
  <Settings>
    <TeamFoundationServer name="servername" port="8080" protocol="http" collection="tfs/DefaultCollection"></TeamFoundationServer>
    <Output file="migration_Analysis.xml"></Output>
  </Settings>
</SourceControlConverter>

Hope this helps someone else!

New 2008 Kentucky Derby and Kentucky Oaks Products Available

The 2008 Kentucky Derby is less than two months away! The Louisville News Company now has official Derby glasses, the Derby Magazine, programs, stat sheets and other products available for the 2008 Derby and Oaks. Be sure to check out their selection and place your order early!

Why we recommend Gmail

This is a post on the Gmail blog about their spam filter. The two biggest features Gmail offers for personal e-mail and hosted domain e-mail are the spam filter, super-fast searching, and very large mailboxes. Oh... The three biggests features are the spam filter, super-fast searching, and very large mailboxes... and a great calendar. Four! The four biggest features... Oh well, you get the idea.

Official Gmail Blog: How our spam filter works

We previously hosted our clients e-mail on one of our servers, but ever since the Google Hosted Services / Google Apps stuff went public, we've been moving our clients over to use that instead. We've been using it for our sypher.com domain e-mail since it was in Beta, and I don't think we'd ever move back to hosting our own again. I'd highly recommend this for any organization with less than 25 e-mail accounts, and probably even for you bigger companies out there.

Peter Bromberg's UnBlog: KB929729 Windows Update Failure - An Easy FIX

Peter Bromberg's UnBlog: KB929729 Windows Update Failure - An Easy FIX

In case anyone else runs into this... I had just upgraded a machine from XP to Vista and the .NET 1.1 SP hotfix problem was waiting for me at the end of the upgrade process. Mr. Bromberg's post of these steps fixed my problem. :-) This doesn't sound like it's a common problem, so it was a relief to find the steps to fix it so well written.

Siders to Serve as VP for Local BNI Chapter

Bryan Siders, president of Sypher Technology, will serve as vice president of the Numbers for Success chapter of BNI for a one year term beginning in October. Simon Keemer of Strothman & Company and Allen Harris of Gersh Law Offices will serve as the president and the secretary/treasurer.

BNI is a business networking organization that "provides a positive, supportive, and structured environment for you to grow your business through word-of-mouth marketing." There are currently over sixty chapters in the Kentucky, Southern Indiana, and Middle Tennessee area.

The Numbers for Success chapter meets every Tuesday from 7:45am to 9:15am at the Kroger Banquet Hall located at 4174 Westport Road. Louisville, KY 40207. For more information or to attend a meeting as a guest, contact Bryan Siders at 502-459-4054.

Moving to Blogger

We have changed this news feed to use Blogger.com for new posts instead of the hand-written file we were originally using. This is the first step in our move to a new web site design. The rest of the site will be updated in the next couple of weeks.