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Team Foundation Operations Guide
Yesterday Jeff Beehler announced the availability of a new Team Foundation Server Operations Guide. This guide was assembled by the VSTS Rangers team in coordination with the TFS team. It augments the product documentation with additional guidance and best practices for managing/operating a Team Foundation Server. It includes: I hope this is helpful in understanding TFS operations. Over time this content will get migrated into the official documentation set. Brian
TFS and Sharepoint (WSS) 2.0 SP3
We have completed testing TFS with WSS 2.0 SP3 and everything works as expected. It should be safe to use it in a production TFS deployment and it will be fully supported. Thanks, Brian
September TFS Power Tools Released
Today we released the Sept 2007 version of the TFS Power Tools. There's a couple of great new things in them. First, before I get to that, this release of the Power Tools only works with the TFS 2005 client. This will be the last release of the Power Tools for the TFS 2005 client. Future releases will require and work with the TFS 2008 client - all the more reason for you to upgrade :) There are two major new features in this release of the Power Tools: See the section towards the end for a couple of things to watch out for during installation. If you have any questions or pro...
Updates to TFS 2008 Beta 2
Yesterday we released a refreshed build of TFS 2008 Beta 2. Why did we do this? The reason is that we have had a fair number of reports of installation issues. Our installation process is instrumented with Dr. Watson logging and will send information about successes and failures and logs on the errors that were hit for us to analyze. In those logs, we've seen a few significant issues. But even more importantly, we discovered that logging was disabled on a portion of the TFC installer and that we were unable to diagnose a class of failures as a result. Both the client and server bits ...
Continuous Integration tray tool for TFS
Check out the new tray tool for monitoring Team Builds on Buck's blog. It's just a preview at this point and will ultimately be released as an official TFS Power Tool in the next few months but I think if you get the chance to check it out, you'll get hooked on it.Brian
VSTS Web Access updated for TFS 2008
Today we released a new version of VSTS Web Access. This release is a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of what will ultimately be the 2008 version of of the VSTS Web Access Power Tool. See the bottom for details on the nuances of what all this terminology means. You can download it here. The big advances in this update include... This release (and the final 2008 release) can be used with either a TFS 2005 or a TFS 2008 server. In either case, you will need to install a TFS 2008 Team Explorer on the machine you install Web Access on. Since TFS 2005 did not support build queuing...
Update on Microsoft TFS adoption
Here's an update on overall TFS adoption at Microsoft. In a bit I expect to blog the latest DevDiv server stats. Overall adoption continues to grow rapidly. We passed some notable milestones this month: Adoption in Office continues strong. Windows adoption is growing but we have hit some pain along the way. They are adopting the same preliminary Rosario build that Office is using and have run into quite a number of installation issues with the Team Explorer client. We've been working through those with them. DevDiv continues preparations for a final and complete switch over ...
TFS Migration & Synchronization Tool For ClearCase Released
8/24/2012 This post is now very out of date. Please see http://blogs.msdn.com/b/willy-peter_schaub/archive/2011/07/27/getting-started-with-ibm-rational-to-team-foundation-server-tfs-migrations.aspx for more up to date information. Yesterday we released a new tool that will help customers who use both Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server and ClearCase or are migrating from ClearCase to TFS. It is available for download today at no additional charge for licensed users of TFS (server and CALs). We are hoping to release some updates to TFS licensing soon that will ...
Practicing servicing for TFS 2008
You may have read some of my previous posts about my shame around the job we have done servicing and providing patches for TFS 2005. We've had problems both with timeliness and reliability of patches. I promised that we would not let that happen again for TFS 2008. I intend to keep that promise. We've been working hard on servicing for months now. Today, we have the first visible result of that effort. We are releasing a first round of 6 patches that can be applied against TFS 2008 Beta 2 client and server installs. These patches fix real bugs Beta 2 but not all of them a...