VSTS Web Access Power Tool for Team System 2008 released!

Brian HarryNovember 30, 2007Nov 30, 200711/30/07

Today we are releasing the "final" TFS 2008 based release of the Web Access Power Tool.  I put "final" in quotes because the release model for Power Tools is a little different than for our major product versions.  Rather than releasing "big" releases every couple of years, we release smaller ones as needed.  So I fully expect ...

November Rosario CTP is available

Brian HarryNovember 28, 2007Nov 28, 200711/28/07

It's a bit of an anticlimax in the shadow of the Visual Studio 2008 RTM last week, but the Microsoft Visual Studio Team System Code Name 'Rosario' November 2007 CTP is now available for download.  Those you you who don't enjoy living on the bleeding edge can ignore it and bask in the glow of your shiny new VS 2008 download :)  Those ...

Update #2 on Installation Questions

Brian HarryNovember 28, 2007Nov 28, 200711/28/07

The problems with getting TFS Workgroup Edition from MSDN Subscriber downloads should now be resolved.  It has now been made available to all appropriately licensed subscribers and should show up in your list of download choices.  If you still can't see it and you believe you should, let me know and we'll investigate. Sorry for the ...

Update #1 to Installation Questions

Brian HarryNovember 23, 2007Nov 23, 200711/23/07

We have tracked down the URL for downloading Team Explorer 2008 from microsoft.com (when I first wrote the post I wrote that I didn't know where it was).  The url is: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=0ED12659-3D41-4420-BBB0-A46E51BFCA86&displaylang=en I have since updated the original post here: http://...

TFS Licensing Change for TFS 2008

Brian HarryNovember 23, 2007Nov 23, 200711/23/07

We made one significant licensing change for TFS with the release of TFS 2008.  We've gotten a lot of feedback over the past 2 years that there are classes of users who make very light use of TFS and for those users a $500 CAL (list price) is just too much.  Most of these scenarios involve some kind of very infrequent access to work ...