{"id":13840,"date":"2015-10-15T05:13:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-15T05:13:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2015\/10\/15\/tfs-office-integration-installer\/"},"modified":"2024-06-28T14:34:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T21:34:41","slug":"tfs-office-integration-installer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/tfs-office-integration-installer\/","title":{"rendered":"TFS Office Integration Installer"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the things I forgot to mention in my post about TFS 2015 Update 1 RC<\/a> is that we have also shipped a preview of our new TFS Office Integration Installer<\/a>\u00a0(ISO image<\/a>).\u00a0 This new installer addresses a couple of scenarios:<\/p>\n

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  1. People like project managers, BAs, etc that wanted to use our Microsoft Office integration capabilities used to have to install our Team Explorer package.\u00a0 It was uncomfortably large and included a VS Shell instance that most of them really didn’t want.\u00a0 This new installer just includes the Office integration component (Excel, Project, etc) and is therefore lighter weight.<\/li>\n
  2. We announced with the release of TFS 2015 the intent to make our PowerPoint storyboarding tool available without VS Enterprise\/Test Professional but we didn\u2019t provide an easy way to acquire it.\u00a0 We\u2019ve now included it in this Office Integration Installer, making it very easy to get with the rest of the Office integration tools.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The PowerPoint storyboarding tool is a really nice way to mock up user experiences quickly and easily.\u00a0 You can leverage the PowerPoint skills you already have to build nice walk throughs of user flows before you invest in building them.\u00a0 In building TFS and VSO, we use is all the time.\u00a0 Here\u2019s an example PowerPoint mockup from one of our walk-throughs of our new dashboarding feature that\u2019s in progress.<\/p>\n

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    Right now, it\u2019s buried on the VS 2015 Update 1 RC download page but we\u2019ll add a new page to make it easier to find, understand what\u2019s in it and download.\nLike most things we release, it will also work with previous releases on Team Foundation Server (you don\u2019t have to be on TFS 2015 to use it).\u00a0 I don\u2019t recall the precise requirement but it certainly works back to TFS 2012.\u00a0 And, of course, it works with VS Online.\nI hope this makes your TFS experience even better.\nBrian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    One of the things I forgot to mention in my post about TFS 2015 Update 1 RC is that we have also shipped a preview of our new TFS Office Integration Installer\u00a0(ISO image).\u00a0 This new installer addresses a couple of scenarios: People like project managers, BAs, etc that wanted to use our Microsoft Office integration […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":14617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5,8],"class_list":["post-13840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tfs","tag-vsonline"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"

    One of the things I forgot to mention in my post about TFS 2015 Update 1 RC is that we have also shipped a preview of our new TFS Office Integration Installer\u00a0(ISO image).\u00a0 This new installer addresses a couple of scenarios: People like project managers, BAs, etc that wanted to use our Microsoft Office integration […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}