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VSTS Web Access updated for TFS 2008

September 21, 2007 Sep 21, 2007 09/21/07

Brian Harry

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 ...

TFS Migration & Synchronization Tool For ClearCase Released

September 14, 2007 Sep 14, 2007 09/14/07

Brian Harry

8/24/2012 This post is now very out of date.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 ...

Practicing servicing for TFS 2008

September 10, 2007 Sep 10, 2007 09/10/07

Brian Harry

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 ...

Updated documentation on creating custom reports

September 5, 2007 Sep 5, 2007 09/5/07

Brian Harry

One of the pieces of feedback we frequently get is that creating custom reports is too hard.  We're taking a two pronged approach to this.  We're working on new features in Rosario to make it easier and we are writing more/better docs on how to do reporting with the features you have today.  Here is a post from Allen Clark on ...

Support details for TFS Beta 2

August 30, 2007 Aug 30, 2007 08/30/07

Brian Harry

I've gotten a few questions recently about exactly what "go-live" of TFS Beta 2 means and how one goes about getting support. "Go-live" means that we believe Team Foundation Server 2008 Beta 2 (TFS Beta2) is ready for production use.  Because TFS is such a mission critical application, we have arranged for Customer Support Services (...

Fixes for a couple of TFS Beta 2 install issues

August 30, 2007 Aug 30, 2007 08/30/07

Brian Harry

We've been collecting Dr. Watson reports and user bug reports of issues encountered installing TFS Beta 2.  Unfortunately, the success rate is not as high as we would like.  Yesterday we released an update that will address 2 of the issues we've seen people run into.  We have another set of them coming in the next couple of ...

Upgrading to Win2K3 SP2

August 28, 2007 Aug 28, 2007 08/28/07

Brian Harry

We've recently been having some problems with client hangs in our dogfood TFS environment.  It has taken quite a while and quite a long breadcrumb trail to diagnose the problem.  I thought I'd share it with it in case you have seen similar things or want to take preventative steps against it. As I said, it usually manifests itself as...

Orcas Beta 2 builds released for additional languages

August 28, 2007 Aug 28, 2007 08/28/07

Brian Harry

The next set to be released are what we call CCK - Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Korean.  Soon we will also be releasing French and German.  In all, for RTM, we will be releasing support for 9 languages. CHSCHT KOR Brian...