Brian Harry's Blog

A new Codeplex project for bulk work item manipulation

February 26, 2010 Feb 26, 2010 02/26/10

Brian Harry

I just heard about a new Codeplex project for bulk changes to work items.  Excel is a good solution for many bulk changes but we really don't have a great solution for rapidly changing a lot of work item links.  This looks like it might be a useful tool in that regard.  I haven't had a chance to try it yet but you might want to ...

Creating Sharepoint and Reporting sites after the fact

February 25, 2010 Feb 25, 2010 02/25/10

Brian Harry

In TFS 2010, we made integration of TFS with Sharepoint and SQL Reporting Services optional.  You can choose not to install them, you can choose not to create sites even if they are installed, etc.  As part of this, you can also configure your TFS server to point at centralized Sharepoint and reporting infrastructure, etc.  ...

Upgrading a TFS 2008 Server from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008

February 25, 2010 Feb 25, 2010 02/25/10

Brian Harry

Someone forwarded me a blog post with a pretty thorough recounting of their experiences upgrading SQL in a TFS install.  This is the kind of thing we have worked very hard to make better in 2010.  While the SQL and Sharepoint parts of such config changes still have their challenges (and are getting better in their own right), we...

Upgrading a TFS 2008 Server from SQL 2005 to SQL 2008

February 25, 2010 Feb 25, 2010 02/25/10

Brian Harry

Someone forwarded me a blog post with a pretty thorough recounting of their experiences upgrading SQL in a TFS install.  This is the kind of thing we have worked very hard to make better in 2010.  While the SQL and Sharepoint parts of such config changes still have their challenges (and are getting better in their own right), we...

TFS 2010 RC Power Tools are Available!

February 22, 2010 Feb 22, 2010 02/22/10

Brian Harry

Thank you very much for your patience.  We have just released an RC compatible build of the Power Tools.  The Team Members Power Tool features now work in this build!  Other than that, it just contains additional bug fixes and compatibility with the RC.  We still have a fair amount of work to go before we are done for the ...

TFS 2010 RC Power Tools

February 11, 2010 Feb 11, 2010 02/11/10

Brian Harry

After answering the first half dozen or so questions I got about Power Tool availability (within hours of announcing the RC on Monday :)), I kind of stopped.  The truth is that we had not planned on producing RC compatible Power Tools.  We did them for Beta 2 and are hard at work on finishing them off for RTM.  However, the ...

A TFS 2010 Upgrade success story

February 10, 2010 Feb 10, 2010 02/10/10

Brian Harry

Today, I saw a nice report from one of our MVPs about their experience updating their production TFS server to the TFS 2010 RC: http://blog.hinshelwood.com/archive/2010/02/10/upgrading-from-tfs-2010-beta-2-to-tfs-2010-rc.aspx I wanted to share it for a couple of reasons. First, it's nice to see that they've been successful and he documents his...

A TFS 2010 Upgrade success story

February 10, 2010 Feb 10, 2010 02/10/10

Brian Harry

Today, I saw a nice report from one of our MVPs about their experience updating their production TFS server to the TFS 2010 RC: http://blog.hinshelwood.com/archive/2010/02/10/upgrading-from-tfs-2010-beta-2-to-tfs-2010-rc.aspx I wanted to share it for a couple of reasons. First, it's nice to see that they've been successful and he documents his...