On Monday we released Beta 1 for MSDN subscribers. Today at 10am PDT, we are making it available to anyone who wants to download it. We’re excited to reach this big milestone in the journey of shipping 2010 and we’re eagerly anticipating your feedback. The blogosphere is full of posts about the release. You can read ab...
I don't expect too many of you will try this given that this is a Beta 1 release and there's no broad go-live license or support associated with it, but for those of you out there that are interested, I've got some useful information for you. Upgrading a TFS 2008 server to TFS 2010 Beta 1 should work (upgrading TFS 2005 won't work until Beta ...
Conchango (EMC) is working on an update for their popular SCRUM template for Team System to enhance it for VSTS 2010. You can read about their plans here: http://blogs.conchango.com/stuartpreston/archive/2009/05/19/scrum-for-team-system-v3-0-plans.aspxBrian
I wanted to let you know that the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle team has just announced a new offering that makes writing secure code easier! This morning they released the Microsoft SDL Process Template for Visual Studio Team System. This new template is designed to work with TFS 2008. For several years, security has been a top p...
This is the second in the set of 3 TFS 2010 feature posts around project management. The first was on Work Item Tracking enhancements. This one is on general project management improvements that I can’t fit into a category :) And the third will be on Reporting improvements – with a focus on report authoring/customization. Ag...
As with every Beta release, there are a set of gotchas that you have to look out for when installing. My primary guidance is to read the readme file. Lots of stuff we know about is in there. I'll call out a few things here as I see them become stumbling blocks for people. I'll append to this post as I learn more. Installing ...
Today at 10:00am PST, the Beta 1 download for Visual Studio 2010, Visual Studio Team System 2010 and .NET 4.0 is available to MSDN subscribers. It will be available to the general public on Wednesday. MSDN subscribers can download it from the MSDN subscriber download site using this link. I’ll post the public links for non-M...
Customizing TFS to fit your process can be a significant undertaking if you have an involved and detailed process. Our tools can guidance for doing this could certainly use some work to help stream line it. Kathryn Elliott, one of the people on our documentation team, is undertaking the task of understand how we can improve the experien...
Customizing TFS to fit your process can be a significant undertaking if you have an involved and detailed process. Our tools can guidance for doing this could certainly use some work to help stream line it. Kathryn Elliott, one of the people on our documentation team, is undertaking the task of understand how we can improve the experien...
In my last 2010 post, I covered Setup, Admin & Ops. In this post I’m going to cover work item tracking features. The truth, however, is that the lines between the next 3 posts are going to be pretty blurry. I’ve tried to think about ways to partition it but Work Item Tracking, Project Management and Reporting are all heavily i...
