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Wyatt LOVES your jerky treats! I just put in my 2nd order and believe me there will be more. I was purchasing MILO chicken jerky until the recall and thought it was safe because it was made in the USA. After the recall when I did some research I found out that the chicken comes from China. I don't wish anyone harm but I hope this puts them out of business or they clean up their act. I am so glad I found you. Wyatt is a 2 year old pekinese/maltese mix. He now stands by the refrigerator just waiting for someone to open the door. How quickly he learned that the "chicky" is now in the frig. Thanks again, Barb
October 21, 2013
Thank you very much for the treats! My dogs love them! I ordered them Friday afternoon and they arrived Monday morning -- in California! Great service -- great treats!
September 29, 2013
I cannot say enough good things about this product! What a difference between the lousy Chinese made chicken strips and the Chicky Strips. My two French Bulldogs get one half every morning. They expect it, they know when it's coming, and they drool all over my floor in anticipation. If you are "fussy" about what your dog eats, then buy this product. They are reasonably priced for such a quality product.
Thanks to TriPom from Honey and Pepper
August 31, 2013
I want to say these are the best treats you can give your dog. They are actually dried chicken breast strips. They are like a jerky dried strip and can be broken easily if you want to give a small amount or the whole treat.
My dogs love them and there are so many products out there on store shelves that aren't good for them you don't know what to choose. Get these and make youself and your dog happy. They are 100% real USDA Chicken Breasts.
Thank you Tripom for a great product.
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March 5, 2013
My dogs love these treats! Right now my oldest is sick, but he did eat one of these when he wouldn't touch his food. I feel so good knowing that I'm not giving them anything artificial. Pure protein is so much better for dogs then all the cereal and grain fillers! Thank you!
January 16, 2013
These are unbelievable! My dog (norwich terrier)will not leave me alone. She already recognizes the sound of the bag being opened. I also spend the day with 2 other dogs at work (Portuguese water dog and jack russell). Periodically a 3rd dog (chouwinni) comes for the day and she is crazed by these. They give me no peace!!!! It is all your fault and I thank you so very much.
January 14, 2013
I just have to tell you and thank you for these great treats for our two Pom boys, Cody and Frosty. They are brothers, we adopted both of them together, and they just love the chicken breasts you make. They wait every morning for it, in fact at times even wake me up ahead of time to remind me that it is time. The day I found your web site was a great day and they along with us say Thanks so much for doing this. We won't ever buy any treat or toy made in China or any other foreign country. Our boys are way to precious to give them anything other than Made in America! ♥
January 9, 2013
I'm a return customer. I bought my first bag of chicken stripes a month ago. I have 3 little poodles that absolutely love chicken treats. After reading in the news about the chicken treats manufactured in China, I feel so lucky to have not ever had any health issues with my babies. However, I wasted no time to begin my search for american made chicken jerky treats. I appreciate your efforts in making these treats and making them available to customers such as myself. You should be very proud in the fact that these are "the best ever" chicken jerky treats my babies have ever had. I thank you on behalf of my very precious babies. Sincerely, Rose F
January 7, 2013
Received my order today...THESE ARE FABULOUS!!!! My dogs are in love!!!!! And I feel so good about giving them these treats!!!!!!
January 6, 2013
I had been giving my 11 1/2 year old, 11lb Havanese Waggin Train, Milo's Kitchen or Canyon Creek dog treats (made in China) for the last 2 years, 1 treat almost every day. Occasionally, my poor boy Quincy did exhibit some uncharacteristic symptoms but his symptoms either didn't occur at the same time, or didn't seem overly serious or harmful (frequent urination, gagging/regurgitating, small amount of blood in stool, diarrhea). I was able to explain them away due to routine vet visits, which treated the symptoms and provided a clean bill of health. On June 12th, after seeing a video clip of a news report about dogs dying from these treats, I immediately threw the new bag of treats I just bought, in the garbage. I KNOW I am extremely lucky that my Quincy is alive and well and I feel so sorry for those pet parents who were/are not as fortunate.
I ordered my first bag of TriPom Chews on June 14, 2012. I received them within 2 or 3 days. I gave Quincy one, and he came back looking for more, which he never does as he's not a beggar. Every day since, he literally talks to me demanding his TriPom chews. I bought the mixed bag and was hesitant with the Molasses treats because Quincy is an extremely picky eater. To my delightful surprise, he loves them the most. I will be a customer for life! Thanks so much for making these treats!
January 1, 2013
we have been ordering your treats for our SPCA rescue dog "happy" for quite a while now.
we read, heard, and saw what was happening with the chinese treats and wanted something that was "safe". since tri-pom are animal owners, they know how special the dogs in our lives are.
my dog just loves your treats! we give them to her when we go to work in the morning, and you can tell she is always ancious to get them. you can tell they are the "real thing" because of the size. we break one in half because we leave at two seperate times, and she calmly sits waiting for her treat every day.
thank you for making our departure every morning a very pleasent one. keep up the great work!
best treats ever
December 31, 2012
We have 2 older dogs (a Siberian of 9 & a Golden x Chow of 11). The 9 year old recently had to have 12 teeth pulled due to gum disease and infection. After a couple of weeks the vet cleared her for normal chewing again, so I tried her with the chicky strips. which I had ordered earlier Since the strips are thinner and softer than the typical Chinese chicken jerky, it seemed like a reasonable treat.
The first time she was somewhat skeptical when I handed the strip to her to try. She had no problem chewing it. But after that, it was "Katy bar the door". She now comes over to my chair and stares intently at me when she wants her strip for the evening. And when I go to the refrigerator to get her a strip, she starts her chicky dance around our kitchen island. Our other dog is more mellow, but he scarfs his chicky treats down too, and they both scour the area where they eat them to find any spare shards that may have escaped. Clearly, Tripom has created a monster and I'm going to be ordering these things forever. And I'm comfortable that they won't harm our dogs and the dogs love them.
The Chicky Dance
November 5, 2012
These are the greatest Treats ever for my little Molly.
Thank you so much for making these. It is so great to know these are safe and made in the USA.
wonderful product
October 29, 2012
First of all I would like to thank you for making such an awesome product. My 2 snoopy little chihuahua's absolutely love the treats. We had been buying over the counter ones till all the bad news started coming about, we even were noticing signs of abnormal behavior like diarrhea, vomiting. Now they both sit at the fridge and wait for one. We be back for sure!!!!
October 2, 2012
The chicken jerky treats are far and away the best I have ever seen! Not only do I not have to worry about foreign additives and mystery meat from other countries, but my dog absolutely loves them! They are well worth the price and the customer service is awesome also. My family and I bought several packets and every human and canine felt the same way as I do. I highly recommend TriPom chews.
September 4, 2012
Once I learned about the recalls in the chicken jerky from China. I no longer buy anything that my dog eats or that I eat from China. I cant thank tripom enough. I have went on an endless search to find a chicken jerky that my dog like and she is a picky eater. Leah my dog loves tripom and I am a loyal customer. I will not buy anything else. THe search is over. Keep selling quailty chicken jerky. Our dogs are counting on it. THANKS AGAIN!!
Thanks Tripom
August 31, 2012
When I found out about the dangers of the chicken treats found in the pet stores and grocery stores, I quickly threw them out. I was fortunate enough to find your company online and was absolutely delighted with my first order.
My gosh, these treats not only ARE chicken, but they actually smell like chicken!! The dog loves them and I don't have to worry that I'm killing my friend. Thanks so much for your efforts.
August 27, 2012
YEAH!!! A company with products made in the good ol' USA! I refuse to buy any dog food/treats made in China. Bella, my 4 year old Cairn Terrier knows these as her "special" treats for doing good things like behaving during a bath and looks at the frig when its time to get one! I just put in my 3rd order and have recommended them to my friends for their pooches. Keep up the good work!
August 27, 2012
I recently threw all my treats out after reading about the Chinese treats poisoning so many dogs. I found your website and am so pleased with the treats we received. My little Shih Tzu (Izzy the Shihzy) really loves them. She licked her paws after she was done, she wanted more and more!! I am so pleased I can give her a treat I dont have to worry about hurting her or making her sick. Thank you sooooo much!
My Shizy LOVES the chews!
August 26, 2012
We found you only a few months ago, but have been ordering every two weeks. "Kipper" is one happy little terrior-poo since we found your wonderful and safe chicken treats. Thank you so much!
August 21, 2012
I have to say I've never seem my dogs go so crazy for a treat as the Chicken strips! They love them and I'm happy to know that they are safe and will not hurt them. My dog Samantha knows exactly what treat she is getting when I head to the refrigerator and she can't wait to eat hers! Beau is more patient but he takes the time to savor his treat. Thank you so much! So glad I found your site!
August 15, 2012
Getting down to the bottom of our first bag of chicken strips and from my Pug's reaction to them, I decided I'd better not run out. She used to eat the Waggin'Train treats, but with all the problems people have had, I'm just not chanceing it any more. She's getting up in years and we've been blessed that she hasn't had any problems yet because she has been eating the Waggin' Train treats for a while, until I found yours. I was so glad to find your website and find that everything is made right here in the states, in Maine. I have no doubt if you feed your poms these treats then they'll be safe for any dog. Thanks again!!
July 17, 2012
Dear TriPom: I am so glad I found you. We have been one of those pet owners who are concerned about the Made in China toxic treats. Our dogs love your chicken jerky and I have ordered two more 16 oz bags. Thank you for taking time and care to make these for our pets. I feel so much better knowing that we are giving our pets products that are healthy and will not harm them. Thank you again.
Ms. Terry Giles
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June 30, 2012
I can't tell you just how much my pitbull Ajax LOVES your chicken jerky!!! I swear he would sing the Star Spangled Banner for them if he could!!! Thank you for a wonderful product we can TRUST!!
June 13, 2012
My pom LOVES these chicken jerky. A superior product. Will never feed my dog anything else but these. She doesn't want to eat her dog food would prefer to eat the treat. They look so good. When she sees them she starts jumping and gets one and runs with it.
June 12, 2012
I received my order today and I just wanted to say my dogs love them. I have 2 yorkies and a snorkie. They have always loved chicken jerkey but was getting afraid to give them to it as they were made in china. I will be back for more. The speedy service was also great. Thanks Again
June 4, 2012
I received my order yesterday, and I would like you to know that I am VERY pleased with the quality. My little pomeranian, Mattie, LOVES chicken jerky. I have bought jerky from the grocery (for pets), and she loved it. However, yours is SO much better. It is fresh and not "hard" like the store brands. I had to watch her when she ate the store brands because she would sometimes choke. Of course, it came from China. I also have a red heeler, Dewey, who went crazy over it. I am absolutely thrilled with these treats and will be back for more. My pets (my kids) cannot get enough of them. I pinched off pieces for the cats, too; and they ate every morsel. If I allowed them to eat the whole package at once, they would. I am proud, also, that they are made in the USA. I will be spreading the word (on Facebook, too). Thank you so much for making such a wonderful product!
June 1, 2012
I bought one of each kind of bag, and the dogs loved them both equally. We use them for treats only. It is so good to know this exists. Our maltipoo got VERY sick 2-3 times on chinese strips until we discovered the cause, about 9 months ago.Then I began an internet search and found you.
I'm sure the situation is FAR worse than is being reported. We never reported our doggie to anyone but the grocery stores when we returned the chinese strips.
We have a schnauzer 12 pounds, and a maltipoo 5 pounds, the runt of the litter, and she has a sensitive stomach. She adores these strips and never reacts badly to them. In fact if she has tummy problems which she gets about once a month, we feed her your strips to keep her strong til she can get back on her dog food.
There are no preservatives so don't forget to refrigerate them!
Our doggies go nuts for them
May 29, 2012
Just wanted you to know how much my Westie, Lily, loves her "chickie treats" from you. She can be at the other end of the house and still hear me open the freezer bag to get a couple of treats and she comes running as fast as she can. You have a superior product and i am so very glad I found you.
Thsank you so much for such wonderful treats!
Linda & Lily
May 24, 2012
I have stopped giving my dogs ANYTHING made in China. I looked into purchasing a food dehydrator since my dogs love dried chicken strips so much, but when I found TriPom, I decided to give them a try. When I received my order, I was so surprised to see how wonderful and fresh the chicken looked....nothing like any of the store bought products. This is the real deal! My dogs absolutely love these chicken strips and I have peace of mind knowing that they are real, made here in the USA, and of course with love. I have just placed my second order and know that I'll be back again and again. Thank you, TriPom, for doing such a wonderful thing for our "babies".
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In the meantime, I wanted to share some lessons learned while performing an upgrade in the Jameson Datacenter.
A couple of weeks ago, I started receiving notifications (from Systems Center Operations Manager) regarding disk errors on my primary SQL Server computer (BEAST). The situation deteriorated and I soon found that one of the four drives in my RAID 1+0 array was offline. After a short sigh of relief that I hadn't lost any of my data, I added the drive back to the array and initiated a rebuild of the mirror. I also ordered a new drive to replace my backup drive and thus have a spare in case the problematic drive failed again.
When I received the new hard drive, I decided it was probably a good time to rebuild BEAST. As I noted in an earlier post, the server -- at least until a week ago -- was running Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2005. Note that BEAST also serves as the "data tier" for my instance of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2008. The "application tier" runs on a VM (CYCLOPS) on a different server.
Prior to initiating the rebuild, I found the following article on MSDN:
Note that the article is for TFS 2005, but based on my knowledge of the differences between TFS 2005 and TFS 2008, it seemed reasonable that the steps would be very similar, if not completely identical.
Also note that what I was trying to achieve with the rebuild was certainly "within the spirit" of this KB article, but wasn't strictly inline with what it prescribes. In other words, my goal was to take my TFS instance down while I rebuilt the backend data tier (using the same hardware but with the latest version of Windows Server and SQL Server). After restoring the backend SQL Server databases, I expected to be able to start up my TFS instance again without issue. I quickly discovered that expectation would not be met (at least not without a lot more work than I originally anticipated).
After ensuring that I had full backups of all SQL Server databases (as well as a backup of my BackedUp folder) on BEAST, I proceeded to rebuild the server with Windows Server 2008 R2. Note that I didn't find anything that stated TFS 2008 is supported on Windows Server 2008 R2 -- but then again, I didn't find anything that stated it wasn't supported on R2, either. It's not the kind of risk that I would recommend to a customer, but this is just my home lab after all.
I was less concerned with upgrading the version of SQL Server during the rebuild process, because in my experience the SQL Server team has done a great job in the area of restoring databases from one version to another.
Note that while my TFS instance was originally built with Team Foundation Server 2005, I upgraded this to TFS 2008 a couple of years ago and later applied TFS SP1 as well. This is important to note because in TFS 2008, there is no separate install for the data tier (hence my first deviation from KB 955601). I also encountered an issue when trying to manually process the TfsWarehouse database, but I'm getting ahead of myself, so I'll cover more about that in a moment.
After installing SQL Server 2008 SP1 and restoring my TFS databases, I found that most everything worked as expected in TFS except for the reports.
Note that I didn't attempt to restore the TfsWarehouse Analysis Services (OLAP) database from a backup, but rather rebuilt it using the SetupWarehouse utility, as prescribed in the aforementioned KB article:
This command completed successfully. However, when I attempted to process the TfsWarehouse OLAP database, I encountered an error that stated the service account that I had configured for Analysis Services (TECHTOOLBOX\svc-sql-as) could not login to the TfsWarehouse relational database.
After digging around a little, I discovered that the data source configured by TFS for populating the OLAP database (i.e. TfsWarehouseDataSource) is configured with the following security setting:
- Impersonation Info: ImpersonateServiceAccount
After ensuring the TECHTOOLBOX\svc-sql-as service account was added to the TfsWarehouseDataReader role in the TfsWarehouse relational database, I continued getting the error when trying to process the OLAP database. I even attempted to process the TFS data warehouse by invoking it from Warehouse Controller Web service (i.e. http://localhost:8080/warehouse/v1.0/warehousecontroller.asmx) but no luck there either.
I found that if I changed the Impersonation Info setting on TfsWarehouseDataSource to ImpersonateAccount (a.k.a. "Use a specific user name and password") and entered the credentials for the TFS reporting service (TECHTOOLBOX\svc-tfsreports) -- which is automatically configured as a member of the TfsWarehouseDataReader role in the TfsWarehouse relational database -- then the error no longer occurred.
However, I wasn't comfortable with leaving this change in place because it might cause other issues in the future, and it almost certainly puts the TFS installation into the dreaded "unsupported" category.
At that point, I decided to try a different approach.
Rather than simply rebuilding the data tier, I decided to rebuild the entire TFS instance (i.e. data tier and application tier) by following the steps in the following MSDN article:
Well, you can probably imagine what happened...
Yep...same error. Unable to process the OLAP database due to the following error:
Log Name: Application
Source: TFS Warehouse
Event ID: 3000
Task Category: None
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: cyclops.corp.technologytoolbox.com
TF53010: The following error has occurred in a Team Foundation component or extension:
Machine: CYCLOPS
Application Domain: /LM/W3SVC/453528946/ROOT/Warehouse-2-129116740741730815
Assembly: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Warehouse, Version=184.108.40.206, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a; v2.0.50727
Process Details:
Process Name: w3wp
Process Id: 2660
Thread Id: 3120
Account name: TECHTOOLBOX\svc-tfs
Detailed Message: Create OLAP failed
Exception Message: Internal error: The operation terminated unsuccessfully.
Internal error: The operation terminated unsuccessfully.
OLE DB error: OLE DB or ODBC error: Login failed for user 'TECHTOOLBOX\svc-sql-as'.; 42000.
Errors in the high-level relational engine. A connection could not be made to the data source with the DataSourceID of 'TfsWarehouseDataSource', Name of 'TfsWarehouseDataSource'.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the dimension, with the ID of 'File', Name of 'File' was being processed.
Errors in the OLAP storage engine: An error occurred while the 'File Extension' attribute of the 'File' dimension from the 'TfsWarehouse' database was being processed.
(type OperationException)
Exception Stack Trace: at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AnalysisServicesClient.SendExecuteAndReadResponse(ImpactDetailCollection impacts, Boolean expectEmptyResults, Boolean throwIfError)
at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.AnalysisServicesClient.Process(IMajorObject obj, ProcessType type, Binding source, ErrorConfiguration errorConfig, WriteBackTableCreation writebackOption, ImpactDetailCollection impact)
at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.Server.Process(IMajorObject obj, ProcessType processType, Binding source, ErrorConfiguration errorConfig, WriteBackTableCreation writebackOption, XmlaWarningCollection warnings, ImpactDetailCollection impactResult, Boolean analyzeImpactOnly)
at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.Server.SendProcess(IMajorObject obj, ProcessType processType, Binding source, ErrorConfiguration errorConfig, WriteBackTableCreation writebackOption, XmlaWarningCollection warnings, ImpactDetailCollection impactResult, Boolean analyzeImpactOnly)
at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.ProcessableMajorObject.Process(ProcessType processType, ErrorConfiguration errorConfiguration, XmlaWarningCollection warnings)
at Microsoft.AnalysisServices.ProcessableMajorObject.Process(ProcessType processType)
at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Warehouse.OlapCreator.ProcessOlapNoTransaction(Boolean schemaUpdated, UpdateStatusStore updateStatus, Server server, SqlTransaction transaction)
at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Warehouse.OlapCreator.CreateOlap(WarehouseConfig whConf, String accessUser, String[] dataReaderAccounts, Boolean dropDB, Boolean processCube)
...along with the corresponding error on the data tier:
Log Name: Application
Source: MSSQLServerOLAPService
Event ID: 3
Task Category: (289)
Level: Error
Keywords: Classic
User: N/A
Computer: beast.corp.technologytoolbox.com
Error during OLE DB operation. Error Code = 0xC1060000, External Code = 0x80040E4D: Login failed for user 'TECHTOOLBOX\svc-sql-as'. 42000.
At this point, I suspected a bug due to the fact that I was using Windows Server 2008 R2 on my backend SQL Server, because I had carefully followed each step in the TFS install guide for a dual-server deployment. I then rebuilt BEAST again, but this time used Windows Server 2008 (instead of Windows Server 2008 R2).
Fast forward a couple of hours and -- yep, you guessed it -- same error. Crikey!
However, at this point, I firmly believed that I was in a "supported configuration" and therefore decided to spend some more time troubleshooting the problem. [I felt confident that reverting back to Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2005 would also resolve the issue, but I viewed this as taking a step backwards and would use it as a last resort.]
I discovered that just prior to the error in the event log shown above, the following event was logged:
Log Name: Application
Source: MSSQLSERVER
Event ID: 18456
Task Category: Logon
Level: Information
Keywords: Classic,Audit Failure
User: TECHTOOLBOX\svc-sql-as
Computer: beast.corp.technologytoolbox.com
Login failed for user 'TECHTOOLBOX\svc-sql-as'. Reason: Token-based server access validation failed with an infrastructure error. Check for previous errors. [CLIENT: 192.168.0.101]
After researching this a little bit, I suspected that SQL Server was attempting to use Kerberos to impersonate the Analysis Services service account. Following KB 917409, I then registered a Service Principal Name (SPN) for the Analysis Services service on BEAST and ensured the proper settings in Active Directory to enable delegation.
However, I still couldn't get it to work. At that point, I decided to just "punt" the issue and change the service account for Analysis Services to run as NetworkService instead of a domain account. Consequently, I had to add NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE to the TfsWarehouseDataReader role in the TfsWarehouse relational database.
At this point, I confirmed that the TFS data warehouse could be successfully updated (using the Warehouse Controller).
You might be wondering why I chose to use a domain account in the first place. It's my understanding that this is a best practice (and I believe it's required when configuring a cluster) and it's the way I've always done it. It was definitely the way BEAST was configured prior to this TFS rebuild. Note that the TFS install guide says to:
type the name of a domain account or NT AUTHORITY\NETWORK SERVICE in Account Name for every service.
Thus I thought that I should be able to use a domain account for Analysis Services.
As a sanity check, I also found the following in SQL Server 2008 books online:
You can choose to run an instance of Microsoft SQL Server Analysis Services in the security context of many different accounts. However, we recommend that you use a domain or local user account as the logon account for Analysis Services.
Continuing the process of validating my new installation of TFS, I created a new test project (based on the MSF Agile template) and confirmed that I could view the reports from the Team Explorer window in Visual Studio. I also confirmed that I could browse to the project team site (i.e. the SharePoint site).
Note that after all this work, I was really only at the beginning of the overall process. More specifically, I had just completed the following step:
1. Install Team Foundation Server in the new environment and make sure it is operational. For detailed instructions...
I continued following the MSDN article and restored my database backups (except for the ReportServer and ReportServerTempDB databases -- but I'll get to that in a moment).
While subsequently attempting to attach the SharePoint content database (for the TFS project team sites), I encountered an error because my TFS server was previously running Windows SharePoint Services v2 but was now running WSS v3. When I installed TFS in my "new environment" I had to first integrate SP1 into the installation of Team Foundation Server (i.e. a prerequisite for supporting SQL Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008). In other words, installing SP1 onto an existing TFS 2008 doesn't upgrade the environment to WSS v3. However, installing TFS 2008 with SP1 integrated will install WSS v3.
In order to upgrade my SharePoint content database, I restored it to a VM running WSS v2, ran the Prescan.exe utility, and subsequently backed up the updated database. I was then able to restore the new backup on BEAST and attach it to the WSS v3 instance running on CYCLOPS.
The last part of the move process was to restore the TFS reports. Keep in mind that when I said earlier that I confirmed that I could view the reports, I was referring to the test project that I created.
However, I was wary of simply overwriting the ReportServer database on BEAST because my backup was from SQL Server 2005 and BEAST now had a freshly rebuilt SQL Server 2008 instance of that database (created by the TFS install). Perhaps it's just me being a little paranoid or some form of "analysis paralysis", but what if the SQL Server team made changes to the Reporting Services schema or stored procedures between SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008?
Instead, what I wanted to do was simply recreate the TFS reports for all of my various projects using the new Reporting Services instance that I had created. Note that I had not created any custom reports that I needed to worry about getting back.
This is when I discovered that TFS 2008 doesn't support the ability to easily recreate the reports for a project. It appears to be a somewhat frequent request and something that has been considered as part of the TFS Power Tools but not something that has been formally addressed by DevDiv at this point (at least not for TFS 2008).
Downloading the process template and subsequently uploading the RDL files appears to be a supported operation, but I have 13 TFS projects and when you multiply this by the number of reports for each project (~20), this quickly becomes quite a burden to perform manually.
Fortunately, I found the following KB article:
Unfortunately, the tool referenced in this KB article (TFSUploadReports.exe) was originally built for upgrading from TFS 2005 Beta 3 to TFS 2005 RTM. Consequently, it references version 126.96.36.199 of the various Microsoft.TeamFoundation assemblies (and my freshly rebuilt TFS server only has version 220.127.116.11 of these assemblies). I first attempted to use assembly binding redirection (to force the old utility to use the new assembly versions). I succeeded in redirecting the three assemblies that I thought would suffice, but then encountered additional errors and therefore quickly gave up on that effort (before attempting to dive into Fusion logging).
Instead I fired up Reflector on TFSUploadReports.exe and observed that it really wasn't doing anything too complex -- essentially just reading the report configuration file and then uploading the RDL files using the SOAP interface for SQL Server Reporting Services.
Putting aside any concerns about copyright infringement or licensing issues for this specific scenario, I copied the code from Reflector into a new console application project in Visual Studio, added a Web Reference to http://cyclops/ReportServer/ReportService2005.asmx?wsdl, and made a few tweaks to get the code to compile (e.g. changing
ReportingService references to
ReportingService2005). After a little debugging, I discovered that I also had to change the URL of the Web service proxy:
private static void CreateReportServerProxy()
string reportsServerUrl = GetReportsServerUrl();
new Uri(reportsServerUrl);
//m_proxy = new ReportingService();
m_proxy = new ReportingService2005();
//m_proxy.Url = reportsServerUrl;
m_proxy.Url = reportsServerUrl.Replace(
m_proxy.Credentials = m_tfs.Credentials;
This was necessary to avoid the following error:
System.InvalidOperationException: Client found response content type of '', but expected 'text/xml'.
The request failed with an empty response.
I was then able to quickly upload the reports for each of my 13 TFS projects (in about 3-4 minutes).
I'm happy (and relieved) to say that my TFS instance is now back up and running and seems to be no worse for wear -- given all that it's been through. In fact, I'm actually glad to have the environment upgraded from Windows Server 2003 and SQL Server 2005 to Windows Server 2008 and SQL Server 2008 -- as well as all the experience that I gained from it.
So, in closing, here are some thoughts to consider:
- When performing any kind of upgrade, always be prepared for the worst (because you never know when you might end up rebuilding from scratch)
- There appears to be a significant difference in the way Analysis Services performs impersonation between Windows Server 2003/SQL Server 2005 and Windows Server 2008/SQL Server 2008
- Before moving your TFS from one hardware configuration to another, ensure the "old" environment is running the same versions of Windows Server, SQL Server, and Windows SharePoint Services as the "new" environment (in my case, this would have prevented the "Prescan" issue when attaching the SharePoint content database as well as the issue with recovering the Reporting Services databases)
- During the process of troubleshooting issues, always keep track of the changes you make so that you can subsequently revert them if they don't end up resolving the problem
- Unless you're dealing with a lab environment, don't be cheap (like me) and try to use the same hardware for the "old" and "new" environments (thankfully, I didn't have a Development team waiting on me to get TFS back up and running again as soon as possible)


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Telecommunications – Latin America market
Spain: Telefonica swoons to the Latin beat
Following its recent US$5.8bn purchase of the Latin American assets of Bell South, Spain's Telefonica is not only the largest mobile operator in Latin America--it now stands alongside Vodafone, China Mobile, China Unicom and Deutsche Telekom as one of the top five mobile operators in the world. In the ultra-competitive mobile sector, however, it is not yet proven that big is best, says Business Latin America
Although the global telecoms market recovered last year, the sector's biggest players still bear the scars of the downturn of 2001/02. For most companies, balance sheets remain stretched and margins have yet to return to their former strength. Telefonica's long-term debt, for example, built up during the group's big expansion during the last boom, is now shrinking. But at E19.2bn, it still tops shareholders' equity of E16.7bn. And while the company stopped losing money last year, its net profit margin in the last quarter of 2003 was only 2.5%.
Still, it is not difficult to see why the company is betting on its mobile-phone business. As the company itself points out, this part of its business became the biggest contributor in terms of the group's profits before interest and tax last year and now accounts for nearly a third the company's total sales of €28bn. However, despite the fast growth in this area of the business, with the number of new subscribers jumping by a factor of five in the fourth quarter alone, Telefonica's margins were lower in the fourth quarter than for the full year.
In addition to the competitive nature of the mobile-phone market, Telefonica's latest deal also increases its exposure to Latin America where the political and economic climate are less stable than in Europe. Indeed, although the company enjoys a A/A-1 credit rating from Standard & Poor's, the ratings agency recently announced it was placing the company on its CreditWatch list with negative implications following its decision to buy BellSouth's Latin American mobile businesses. The rating agency cited the "economic, financial and political risks of operating in Latin America and the investments necessary for the future developments of these operations" as reasons for issuing the warning.
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For Telefonica, however, Latin America offers a great deal of opportunity that is simply unavailable in the developed world. According to recent market statistics the number of mobile subscribers per 100 in Europe is 84, while in Latin America the number is just 27 per 100. And while Latin America's economic performance has been poor since the beginning of the decade, growth picked up last year and recorded an overall expansion of about 1.6%, according to the Economist Intelligence Unit. The EIU also forecasts annual economic growth for the region should average nearly 3.4% through 2008.
Given these statistics, the company should easily be able to see its mobile phone sales grow by 4.5% a year through 2006, which is a higher growth rate than any other European telecoms company is predicting. The problem, however, is that Telefonica will be winning that growth in countries with high currency risks, high political risk and with non-investment grade markets. Argentina, for example, cost Telefonica more than €3bn by ending the peso's link to the dollar in 2002.
And even if it does negotiate these risks, longer term it remains unknown whether demand for mobile phones in the region will expand as it has elsewhere in the world. In Venezuela, for example, 80% of the country's population is living in poverty. And as in other developing countries, pay-as-you-go phones are proving to be the most popular. However, this kind of account is the least lucrative for the phone companies as pre-paid phone customers are less likely to purchase the more profitable add-ons, such as picture and video-phones or Internet-linked services.
Against this, however, remains the fact that the mobile phone can also put even the smallest entrepreneur in touch with customers and clients across the country. Should Latin American entrepreneurs adopt mobile phones as they have been in China, where small, family-owned businesses are the norm, Telefonica's bet could well pay off. In the meantime, however, the company will need to stay ruthlessly focused on the bottom line if it wants its Latin American gamble to pay off.
Source; Basic data from BLA, March 2004
IT – Wireless
WiMAX, NLOS and Broadband Wireless Access (Sub-11Ghz)
Market Trends
Fixed broadband wireless market (sub-11Ghz) will grow from $430 million in 2003 to more than $1.6 billion by the end of 2008. In 2003, BWA shipments increased 45% over 2002. Vendors have announced both multi-million dollar contracts and hefty growth earnings compared to 2002. Technology news editors are now talking about a BWA come back with the emergence of millions of WiFi access points connected by more flexible and less costly fixed wireless solutions.
Despite the 2001-2002 market slowdown, the steady demand for bandwidth, coupled with wider access to the Internet and data in general, provide sound fundamentals for expecting future growth in both telecom services and equipment sales in the first/last mile. In other words, both residential and business subscribers worldwide are demanding faster connections for their applications and operators are struggling to give them that access. According to the ITU, there were almost a 100 million broadband subscribers worldwide at the end of 2003. Although DSL and Cable are poised to remain the dominant broadband access technologies worldwide, wireless access technologies are becoming a reliable and cost effective complement or alternative to providing data, voice and video services. Governments worldwide are also driving the growth of Broadband through continuing frequency allocation and programs to subsidize broadband deployments in order to reduce the digital divide between regions of high and low density areas.
Some Key Findings include:
- There were over 10,000 PMP BWA (sub 11Ghz) base stations and 1.2 Million CPEs installed worldwide providing 256Kbps+ broadband services to over 1.5 million subscribers.
- Alvarion is the market leader with about 25% market share followed by SRTelecom with 12% and Proxim with 9%; ZTE is the market leader in the fast growing Chinese market with about 30% market share;
- EMEA which represented 32% of the overall market in 2003 continues to represent the largest market opportunity but Asia will outpace it by 2005;
- The carrier and private networks market segments represented respectively 85% and 15% of the total market in 2003;
- The access and backhaul applications represented respectively 84% and 16% of total sales in 2003. However backhaul will represent 30% of equipment sales by 2008;
- 3.5Ghz, the most allocated frequency band for BWA, represents the largest opportunity for BWA representing 40% of total sales followed by the 5.2-5.8Ghz band. We believe the 2.3 and 2.5-2.7Ghz market share will grow to 25% of the market by 2008
Already 12 vendors offer a 3.5Ghz product and 4 more players will offer a 3.5Ghz product in 2004, which will render that band market even more competitive
Among Plug & Play, NLOS, portable systems, IPWireless is the leader in shipments and revenues, followed by a small group of companies, which include Navini, NextNet Wireless, or SRTelecom (Angel). It is however difficult to sub segment the whole market on system capabilities.
Shipments of OFDM based product already represent 39% of all shipments and that proportion will grow with the adoption of 802.16d to close to 60% by 2008 Shipments of 802.16e will grow exponentially after 2007 to 1 million units and will be dominated by Intel deployments.
Source; Data from Maravedis Inc., March 2004
BayStar Confirms Microsoft Connection to SCO Investment
The cat is finally out of the bag: Microsoft Corp. acted as the matchmaker for the $50 million investment led by BayStar Capital into The SCO Group Inc. last October.
Source; eweek.com
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George Michael to offer songs for free online
Singer George Michael plans to quit the music business after his latest album and issue any of his new creations for free on the Internet.
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I found some more pictures on my SD card of some of the style sights from Download festival. Okay so not all of the ensembles are my cuppa tea, but I wouldn't have it any other way. Half the joy of festival and being part of a huge mass of people is being around difference and embracing it.
I love seeing people showcasing their personal stylea and doing their thing - that's what it's all about.
Man after my own heart...
Love her cute paddington style wellies!
The cute lady wins the award for most fetching waterproof jacket of the weekend. Love the leg tatts too!
Axl Rose is that you?
KISS fans donimated the site on Sunday - Good effort lads!
Some of the less than PG merch on offer,,,
A nice day for an off white wedding....
Feeling horny
Anyone else find these ridiculously creepy?
High Vis boiler suit. WANT/NEED
Still a fair bit of cultural appropriation going on at fests, what do you guys think about the fact the stalls are selling native indian headresses for instance?


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All Cargo Indian Open of Surfing to be held in City, Mishal D'Costa and Aneesha Nayak felicitated
Mangaluru: Department of Tourism Karnataka presents "All Cargo Indian Open of Surfing" to be held at Sasihithlu Beach said Deputy commissioner A B Ibrahim in a press meet held at the DC office here on May 13. He further said that preparations are in full swing for the first surfing festival being organised in Karnataka from May 27 to May 29 during the pre-monsoon swell.
The event will be a 3-day National Surfing and Stand Up Paddling championships attracting surfers from all over India to Mangaluru. The idea behind the event is to promote and showcase beaches of Karnataka as popular surfing and adventure destination.
All Cargo Indian Open of Surfing is presented by Karnataka Tourism, Government of Karnataka. Recognised by International Surfing Association and Surfing Federation of India. The event is being organised by Mantra Surf Club in association with Kanara Surfing and Water Sports Promotion Council.
Under National Surfing Championships, there will be a number of categories:
Groms – Under 16, Junior Boys 17-22, Seniors Men 22-28, Masters Men 28 & above and Women Category. There will be an Open Men's category for international surfers. The event is going to be officiated by Steve Robertson – General Manager for World Surf League (Australasia), Tim Hain – General Manager, Asian Surfing Championships. A panel of international judges will be headed by Made Sachang from Bali, Indonesia. There is a total cash prize of Rs 6,00,000 for all the winning participants from across all categories.
About 50 surfers have registered online already and the number should reach over 100 before May 24th. Top surfers from around India are excited and are looking forward to competing in Karnataka for the first time ever. The forecast for the event is looking very promising with 5ft – 8ft waves hitting the coast which will be a challenge for surfers. Top-seeded girls in the country, Aneesha Nayak and Sinchana Gowda from Mangaluru are going to be the favourites in the women category. Deekshith Suvarna and Kiran Kumar from Mulki are top-seeded from Karnataka.
The district administration has fully extended their support and is striving hard to make this a huge successful event. A new road leading to the venue is in fast progress, beach clean ups and other facilities is all being taken care by the district administration.
Other highlights include various entertainment, live music, food festival and other activities during the surfing festival.
The main objectives of organising this surfing festival is to promote beach tourism, adventure sports and to create a sustainable revenue generating model for local communities, tourism department and other stakeholders.
Mishal D'Costa and Science Award Winner and surfer Aneesha Nayak were felicitated by the district administration for their tremedous achievement.
In her felicitation speech Mishal D'Costa who scored 274th rank in UPSC competitive examinations held in 2015, thanked the district administration for recognizing and honouring her for her achievements.
Police commissioner Chandra Sekhar, CEO ZP Sreevidya, ADC Kumar, Yathish Baikamapdy and others were also present.


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Establishing the carrying capacity of the grasslands of China: a reviewY. J. Zhang A C , X. Q. Zhang A B D , X. Y. Wang A , N. Liu A and H. M. Kan A
A College of Animal Science and Technology, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China.
B Grassland Research Institute, Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, Hohhot 010010, China.
C Corresponding author. Email: email@example.com
D Contributed equally to this paper.
The Rangeland Journal 36(1) 1-9 https://doi.org/10.1071/RJ13033
Submitted: 15 April 2013 Accepted: 25 October 2013 Published: 2 January 2014
China is rich in grassland resources, with 400 × 106 ha of natural grasslands and 18 main types, mostly distributed in the north-east, north, Qinghai-Tibet Plateau and Xinjiang regions. Grassland-based livestock production is the foundation of the economy in these rural areas. Degradation of grassland has occurred to varying degrees in these regions. Mean overgrazing rates across the whole country were estimated to be ~30% in 2009. Considerable amounts of research have focussed, especially since 2000, on developing better ways of managing Chinese grasslands. Research concerning the relationship between forage production and animal performance, is reviewed for three important national grassland regions. For the three major grassland (steppes) types of Inner Mongolia, the stocking rates proposed as a result of research were 1.0–2.2 sheep units (SU) ha–1 for the western, drier Stipa breviflora desert steppe; 2.0–3.8 SU ha–1 for the steppe of Artemisia frigida and Stipa grandis; and 1.8–4.0 SU ha–1 for the eastern higher-rainfall Leymus chinensis meadow steppe in Hulunbeir. In the Qinghai-Tibetan alpine meadows, the stocking rate of grassland dominated by Edelweiss-Potentilla and Kobresia parva, proposed on the basis of research, was 1.0–5.8 SU ha–1. In Xinjiang's desert steppe, the stocking rates of Seriphidium transiliense desert steppe were proposed on the basis of research were 1.2 SU ha–1 in spring and 1.8 SU ha–1 in autumn for non-degraded pasture, and 0.3 and 1.2 SU ha–1 for moderate-degraded pasture, respectively. These stocking rates were based on either annual net primary production or desired levels of livestock production and it is argued that there is a need to develop carrying capacities based on a wider range of sustainability criteria and with the most appropriate grazing systems.
Additional keywords: grassland, Inner Mongolia, Qinghai-Tibet, stocking rate, Xinjiang.
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"They are very kind and the job is well done. "
Review for Advanced Computer Automotive
Michael S. on 09/06/2011
"Great service"
I took my car in and it was going to take more than just the one day and they arranged a rental car for me and let me use it until the repair was done. My car drives great now.
Service Date: 08/27/2011
Review Created: 09/06/2011 08:37 PM


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A few years ago I was in dire need of closure. I thought that by interacting with so many people at once it would feel up the chasm between I and the world. I didn't mind if the closure was defined or not, I just wanted it. So, this need drove me into accepting anything that came my way..From friendships that went awry to unnecessary acquaintances, I wanted everything.
Now the thing is.. Sometimes, while trying so hard to focus on not losing these acquaintances, I make myself unhappy. Someone might ask me to pick up a knife and lacerate my skin and I'd very well do it. It made me weak. Happiness for me depended on what others defined it to be and it was to my detriment . It was bad.
I felt so choked up, didn't know how to express myself, took anything and everything, became almost irrelevant. It was worse because I always wanted to express myself but didn't know how to, didn't know where to. Until. Until I discovered writing. You see, I wasn't always someone who knows how to place A,B,C, and D together. I didn't even have an "A" in My WAEC result, but I just knew I wanted to write. About everything. Ranging from real life experiences to things I observe in my environment to imaginations in my head and all that. I am not perfect, but I know someday I would be.
Expressing myself In this form gives me happiness. I may not get all my sentences correctly, but they shall be seen as sentences. I am happy because of the few people that believe in me. I am happy because they care. I am happy, and, I shall remain so.