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Some great new TFS add-ons

December 23, 2007 Dec 23, 2007 12/23/07

Brian Harry

Mitch Denny has been hard at work publishing the source to a bunch of TFS add-ons he's been working on.  Read about them on his blog links below and us know how useful they are to you... TFS File Sharer - Mimics SourceSafe like file sharing. TFS Continuous Integrator - A TFS 2005 based continuous integration solution.  Of course, it'...

December '07 Release of the TFS Power Tools for TFS 2008 are Available!

December 21, 2007 Dec 21, 2007 12/21/07

Brian Harry

Today we released the first version of the Team Foundation Server 2008 Power Tools.  This new release is primarily intended for use with a VS 2008 client.  All VS integrated components with this new release will only integrate with VS 2008.  Power Tool features in this release require that the Team Explorer 2008 be installed.&#...

Changing what drive TFS databases are on

December 18, 2007 Dec 18, 2007 12/18/07

Brian Harry

I got a question recently about how to change what drive the TFS SQL databases are installed on.  It seemed like a question many people might want the answer to, so I decided to post about it. The first thing the poster noticed was that they changed the default database location in SQL Server Management Studio and it had no effect on ...

Survey Season

December 18, 2007 Dec 18, 2007 12/18/07

Brian Harry

In this season of the greatest survey of all (your holiday wish list), we seem to be brimming with surveys.  I posted about on on the language change tool last week.  Today I have another one to tell you about.  Our Admin and ops team is trying to get a picture of the variety of ways that people have their TFS installations ...

TFS "Change Language" tool

December 16, 2007 Dec 16, 2007 12/16/07

Brian Harry

After we released TFS 2005, we shipped a set of guidance and tools for helping customers change their TFS server from English to a localized version.  It was fairly "do it yourself", consisting of a lot of manual steps and a few tools to help you.  None-the-less, many hundreds (maybe a couple thousand - I can't remember the number ...

Installing Sharepoint on Windows Server 2008

December 13, 2007 Dec 13, 2007 12/13/07

Brian Harry

I saw an internal mail about this today and it seemed like something worth sharing.  Now that Sharepoint is no longer included in Windows Server 2008, you have to install it yourself.  Further, when installing TFS on Windows 2008, the TFS installation process won't automatically install Sharepoint (this is due to the fact that there ...

A new community project based on TFS

December 12, 2007 Dec 12, 2007 12/12/07

Brian Harry

Martin Woodward brought a new community project to my attention today.  The project is based on the concept of an internal tool we have here at Microsoft called "Gauntlet".  Gauntlet was orginally created by the IE team in the 1996-1997 timeframe and has gone through many interations and is now widely used internally (although there ...

TFS Statistics update

December 2, 2007 Dec 2, 2007 12/2/07

Brian Harry

Long ago I published a post on some of the queries I use to monitor data on our internal servers.  Someone asked me to update it for TFS 2008 and I went back and tried them.  Only a few needed tweaks.  Here's an update on the queries.Here they are... use TfsWorkItemTracking -- Users with assigned work items: select count(...