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Support period of TFS 2008 Beta 2

December 2, 2007 Dec 2, 2007 12/2/07
Brian Harry
Back in August I announced that Beta 2 was a "Go-live" release of TFS for customers to use in production.  Because of this we arranged for Customer Support Services (CSS) to support TFS Beta 2.  Now that TFS 2008 has been released I want to clarify when support for Beta 2 will end.  As announced earlier, the Beta 2 release is ...

Tips for installing VSTS Web Access

December 1, 2007 Dec 1, 2007 12/1/07
Brian Harry
As I hear about issues people run across installing VSTS Web Access, I'll post here guidance to help you be successful. 1) VSTS Web Access (like TFS 2008) does not currently support running under 64-bit.  Our recommendation is that you install it on a 32-bit system.  I'm told that you actually can get it to work on a 64-bit system by...

VSTS Web Access Power Tool for Team System 2008 released!

November 30, 2007 Nov 30, 2007 11/30/07
Brian Harry
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 ...

Revitalizing the VS hotfix downloads

November 30, 2007 Nov 30, 2007 11/30/07
Brian Harry
In my last post, I referred to "a couple" of VS2008 initiatives that we are breathing new life into.  In that post I talked about our specification sharing process for Rosario.  The second one we've been reinvigorating is our publicly available downloads.  In the later part of the VS2008 product cycle, the site went a bit stale...

VSTS codename 'Rosario' Specifications begin to arrive

November 30, 2007 Nov 30, 2007 11/30/07
Brian Harry
During the VS 2008 product cycle, we started several new initiatives to increase transparency.  Some of them continued strong and some of them sputtered.  We are breathing new life into a couple of them.  The first to be reinvigorated it the specification publishing process.  We'll be publishing early previews of specs for ...

November Rosario CTP is available

November 28, 2007 Nov 28, 2007 11/28/07
Brian Harry
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

November 28, 2007 Nov 28, 2007 11/28/07
Brian Harry
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 for Visual SourceSafe coming

November 24, 2007 Nov 24, 2007 11/24/07
Brian Harry
We are working on an update for Visual SourceSafe 2005 to make it work with VS 2008.  We had originally planned to have it available at the same time as VS 2008 downloads went live but we hit a last minute bug that is taking a little time to work out.  Our current expectation is that it will be available in mid December.  I will...

Update on Akamai download problems

November 24, 2007 Nov 24, 2007 11/24/07
Brian Harry
In my "questions..." post, I referenced a blog post by Richard Hundhausen detailing his bad experience using the Akamai download manager to get VS 2008.  It appears it has been a very hot topic in the blogosphere.  People have been working not stop to address the issues and we apologize for the problems.  We are moving to both ...

Update #1 to Installation Questions

November 23, 2007 Nov 23, 2007 11/23/07
Brian Harry
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://...