Support details for TFS Beta 2

Brian HarryAugust 30, 2007Aug 30, 200708/30/07

I've gotten a few questions recently about exactly what "go-live" of TFS Beta 2 means and how one goes about getting support. "Go-live" means that we believe Team Foundation Server 2008 Beta 2 (TFS Beta2) is ready for production use.  Because TFS is such a mission critical application, we have arranged for Customer Support Services (

Fixes for a couple of TFS Beta 2 install issues

Brian HarryAugust 30, 2007Aug 30, 200708/30/07

We've been collecting Dr. Watson reports and user bug reports of issues encountered installing TFS Beta 2.  Unfortunately, the success rate is not as high as we would like.  Yesterday we released an update that will address 2 of the issues we've seen people run into.  We have another set of them coming in the next couple of week

Upgrading to Win2K3 SP2

Brian HarryAugust 28, 2007Aug 28, 200708/28/07

We've recently been having some problems with client hangs in our dogfood TFS environment.  It has taken quite a while and quite a long breadcrumb trail to diagnose the problem.  I thought I'd share it with it in case you have seen similar things or want to take preventative steps against it. As I said, it usually manifests itself as

Orcas Beta 2 builds released for additional languages

Brian HarryAugust 28, 2007Aug 28, 200708/28/07

The next set to be released are what we call CCK - Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Korean.  Soon we will also be releasing French and German.  In all, for RTM, we will be releasing support for 9 languages. CHSCHT KOR Brian

TFS/Project Server 2007 Connector

Brian HarryAugust 16, 2007Aug 16, 200708/16/07

I've written before about the TFS <-> Project Server 2007 Connector that the VSTS Ranger team built.  Check out this new Channel 9 video with Lenny (one of the developers of it).  He talks a bit about the Rangers and the projects they have undertaken.  Then he talks in more depth about the Project Server Connector -  

TFS 2008 Beta 2 expiration date

Brian HarryAugust 15, 2007Aug 15, 200708/15/07

I responded earlier to a comment on one of my posts about the Beta 2 expiration date.  At the time I wasn't 100% certain what it is.  I have found out that it is March 15th 2008.  I know the Beta 2 TFS server will stop functioning on that date.  I believe the VS 2008 Beta 2 clients will also stop functioning on that date bu

TF30162: Task "SharePointPortal" from Group "Portal" failed

Brian HarryAugust 14, 2007Aug 14, 200708/14/07

I suspect a lot of people are going to be seeing this message in the coming months and I want to get out in front of it.  This error occurs when you create a new Team Project using the TFS 2005 client against a WSS 3.0 server.  The most common way you will get in this situation is by install a fresh TFS 2008 server install and choosi