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Error in VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 Beta 2 expiration date

October 29, 2007 Oct 29, 2007 10/29/07
Brian Harry
Some time ago, I wrote a post about the Beta 2 expiration date saying that it would expire in March 2008.  Well, for the non-VPC version that continues to be true, however, we have discovered that the OS image in the VPC is set to expire on Thurs, November 1, 2007 - only a couple of days from now and well before the March date that we ...

TFS plugin compatibility between TFS 2005 and TFS 2008

October 19, 2007 Oct 19, 2007 10/19/07
Brian Harry
As I've written many times, we strove to maintain a very high degree of compatibility between TFS 2005 and TFS 2008.  One result is that either client can be used with either server.  However, our success was not without exceptions.  One of those is that any code you've compiled against the TFS 2005 object model will always run ...

TFS 2008 System Recommendations

October 18, 2007 Oct 18, 2007 10/18/07
Brian Harry
We have just completed our testing for TFS 2008 scalability and are ready to publish the final recommendations on server sizing and hardware configurations.  If you want to compare this to the TFS 2005 recommendations, you will find them here. Ultimately making capacity recommendations is a little like throwing darts at a board.  The...

Final set of TFS test patches released

October 16, 2007 Oct 16, 2007 10/16/07
Brian Harry
Over the weekend we released the final set of TFS 2008 test patches for Beta 2 (see below for links).  As I described in an earlier post, these patches fix real bugs but are primarily to allow us to test our servicing process and make sure that by the time TFS 2008 ships we are able to quickly release reliable patches with a good ...

TeamCompanion – A new TFS Add-on for Outlook

October 15, 2007 Oct 15, 2007 10/15/07
Brian Harry
Check out TeamCompanion by Ekobit.  It's a new Outlook add-on that allow you to work with TFS work items inside Outlook.  In addition to email integration and you favorite Outlook list management features, it also provides read-only offline access to you work items.  They have a 30-day free trial here.  Try it out and let ...

Team Foundation Operations Guide

October 3, 2007 Oct 3, 2007 10/3/07
Brian Harry
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...

TFS and Sharepoint (WSS) 2.0 SP3

October 1, 2007 Oct 1, 2007 10/1/07
Brian Harry
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

September 29, 2007 Sep 29, 2007 09/29/07
Brian Harry
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 ...

Updates to TFS 2008 Beta 2

September 28, 2007 Sep 28, 2007 09/28/07
Brian Harry
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 ...

Continuous Integration tray tool for TFS

September 26, 2007 Sep 26, 2007 09/26/07
Brian Harry
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...