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Some detail behind the CodePlex move to TFS 2010

A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a short post about the move of CodePlex from TFS 2008 to TFS 2010 and some of the benefits you’ll see from that.  Today, I want to drill a bit deeper into the infrastructure changes that went along with it and some additional benefits.  As you know making TFS more hosting friendly (whether it&...

Another option to get data from Quality Center into TFS

Just recently, a new tool called Scrat was released.  It enables migrating artifacts from HP Quality Center to TFS.  It is the most comprehensive tool I know of, handling Requirements, Bugs, Test Cases, Attachments, History and Links between items).  I haven’t had a chance to try it myself but I’ve known and worked ...

TFS Integration Platform Updated

We’ve just released a new version of the TFS Integration Platform.  This is the first “official, finished” release that contains the new synchronization architecture and adaptors for: Previous versions made available were “pre-release”.  We’ve been using the new tool kit for ...

Update on the TFS Upgrade Fix

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about a moderately rare problem with upgrading from TFS 2005/2008 to TFS 20010.  Although the number of people affected is modest, the severity of the issue is bad enough that we decided to re-release all TFS images so that the upgrade fix is automatically included and no one who downloads new images will ...

Windows and SQL Patches for TFS

My post on TFS updates a couple of weeks ago generated an internal discussion that resulted in the collection of all of the SQL and Windows updates we’ve had to apply to our Dogfood server to get it running well.  Now, you have to remember that our dogfood server runs at incredibly high scale and many of the issues we’ve hit ...

Windows and SQL Patches for TFS

My post on TFS updates a couple of weeks ago generated an internal discussion that resulted in the collection of all of the SQL and Windows updates we’ve had to apply to our Dogfood server to get it running well.  Now, you have to remember that our dogfood server runs at incredibly high scale and many of the issues we’ve hit ...

Configuring Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server with TFS 2010

I’ve heard numerous times from customers that getting MOSS configured properly to work with TFS 2010 in order to get the best dashboard and analytics experience is VERY difficult.  I have to say, I’ve done it myself a few times and there are a lot of steps and without a MOSS expert watching over my shoulder, I think I would ...

Configuring Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server with TFS 2010

I’ve heard numerous times from customers that getting MOSS configured properly to work with TFS 2010 in order to get the best dashboard and analytics experience is VERY difficult.  I have to say, I’ve done it myself a few times and there are a lot of steps and without a MOSS expert watching over my shoulder, I think I would ...

Lab Management News

There’s some exciting news about Visual Studio Lab Management today.  You may recall that when we released VS/TFS 2010, we declared the Lab Management capability to be “Release Candidate” quality rather then “Released” quality.  I’ve mentioned before that the reason for this was that we just hadn&...

TFS2010 on CodePlex

In the last week, we completed the upgrade of all TFS servers in Codeplex to TFS 2010.  As part of this, we consolidated from 10 individual TFS 2008 servers to a single TFS 2010 load balanced farm.  This makes management of the service even better than before.  I’m really excited about this milestone in the internal ...