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We've heard some reports from people who are upgrading to the Mar 2008 Power Tools that they have had problems uninstalling the Dec 2007 Power Tools (which you must do first).  They get "error 1001" - a very useful error message a must admit.  It makes me wonder what the other 1000 errors are :) Anyway, working with a few customers, we ha...

We've heard some reports from people who are upgrading to the Mar 2008 Power Tools that they have had problems uninstalling the Dec 2007 Power Tools (which you must do first).  They get "error 1001" - a very useful error message a must admit.  It makes me wonder what the other 1000 errors are :) Anyway, working with a few customers, we ha...

It's been a while since I did a post of overall TFS adoption at Microsoft and it seems like it would be a good time to do so.  More and more teams onboard every month and usage within teams continues to deepen.  I post details of the Developer Adoption every month, and this post with give you a (less detailed) picture of what it looks lik...

It's been a while since I did a post of overall TFS adoption at Microsoft and it seems like it would be a good time to do so.  More and more teams onboard every month and usage within teams continues to deepen.  I post details of the Developer Adoption every month, and this post with give you a (less detailed) picture of what it looks lik...

We added/updated several Rosario specifications this week.  For those of you on the "bleeding edge", this is your opportunity to get in on the ground floor and provide feedback early in the development process.  You can provide any feedback you have on our feedback forum here: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDNWorkShop/ShowForum.aspx?F...

We've just released a new version of the TFS Power Tools.  This new Power Tool release will work only with the VS/Team Explorer 2008 client (but against either a TFS 2005 or TFS 2008 server).  If you haven't taken the time to upgrade yet, I highly recommend it - you are missing out on lots of great new value we are delivering. Although t...

The wildly popular Team Development guide with TFS that was produced by the Patterns and Practices team has now been translated in to Russian.  You can find the Russian translation here.Brian

I just discovered one more in a long list of things that I missed while I was out.  Teamprise has released Teamprise 3.0.  The new release includes tons of great new features, including: Full Team Build support, Checkin policy support, folder compare and more... You can read more about it on Martin's blog: http://www.woodwardweb.com/teamp...

Team System is recognized for many of its strengths.  One area that I think people often don't grasp the power that Team System brings is in Requirements Management.  We don't currently have a product that we sell for the explicit purpose of requirements management but none-the-less can play a central role in a powerful requirements manag...

I meant to blog about this before I went on sabbatical, but you know how it goes - the best laid plans... A couple of months ago OpenMake released support for TFS in their Meister cross platform build and deployment product.  This product integrates with TFS's Build capability to enable you to build & deploy applications that include Java,...