{"id":7711,"date":"2008-05-13T15:18:23","date_gmt":"2008-05-13T15:18:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2008\/05\/13\/vsvststfs-2008-sp1-beta-is-now-available\/"},"modified":"2018-08-14T00:27:22","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T00:27:22","slug":"vsvststfs-2008-sp1-beta-is-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/vsvststfs-2008-sp1-beta-is-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"VS\/VSTS\/TFS 2008 SP1 Beta is now available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for being a bit late to the game&#8230;&nbsp; I should have posted yesterday but I&#8217;ve been drowning.&nbsp; As you may already know, we released the Beta for 2008 SP1.&nbsp; I&#8217;m eager to have you try it out and give us feedback.&nbsp; You can find the list of new TFS features <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/bharry\/archive\/2008\/04\/28\/team-foundation-server-2008-sp1.aspx\">here<\/a>.\nI do, however, want you to keep in mind that it is a Beta and you shouldn&#8217;t expect a completely seamless experience.&nbsp; I installed the VSTS SP1 myself and it went pretty well.&nbsp; The main thing I noticed was that I installed and it rebooted and then I had to install again (and reboot again) &#8211; the first install was .NET 3.5 SP1; the second was VSTS 2008 SP1.&nbsp; After that, it ran great.\n<u><\/u>\n<u>Before you install<\/u>\nIt is imperative that you read the readme before you install.&nbsp; It contains critical information about caveats for the Beta.\n<a href=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/8\/F\/D\/8FD2A9F0-C3D4-4B0A-80AF-88D738DCDDF4\/dotNetReadMe.htm\">.NET 3.5 SP1 Readme<\/a> &#8211; The .Net Framework update\n<a href=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/8\/F\/D\/8FD2A9F0-C3D4-4B0A-80AF-88D738DCDDF4\/VSReadme.htm\">VS2008 SP1 Readme<\/a> &#8211; VS Pro or any of the VSTS role products.\n<a href=\"http:\/\/download.microsoft.com\/download\/8\/F\/D\/8FD2A9F0-C3D4-4B0A-80AF-88D738DCDDF4\/ExpressReadme.htm\">VS Express Readme<\/a> &#8211; All of the Express products.\n&nbsp;\n<u>Installing SP1 Beta<\/u>\nVisit this site for a great launching point to learn about, download and install SP1: <a title=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/vstudio\/products\/cc533447.aspx\" href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/vstudio\/products\/cc533447.aspx\">http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/en-us\/vstudio\/products\/cc533447.aspx<\/a>\n&nbsp;\nThe VS patch will patch the .NET Framework, all of the Team System Role SKUs and the stand-alone Team Explorer.\nThe Team Foundation Server update will patch a TFS server, proxy or build server.&nbsp; If you also want to upgrade (it&#8217;s optional) to .NET 3.5 Beta 1 on those &#8220;servers&#8221;, then you will need to separately also install the .NET 3.5 SP1 Beta patch.\n&nbsp;\n<u>Giving feedback<\/u>\nWe will be taking Beta feedback until May 30th.&nbsp; There are a variety of ways for you to give it.&nbsp; We look forward to hearing from you.\nSP1 Forum &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/forums.microsoft.com\/MSDN\/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=2136&amp;SiteID=1\">http:\/\/forums.microsoft.com\/MSDN\/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=2136&amp;SiteID=1<\/a>\nSP1 Connect &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/VisualStudio\">https:\/\/connect.microsoft.com\/VisualStudio<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>   &lsquo;Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 Beta&rsquo; and .Net Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta&acute;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Installation issues &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/heaths\/archive\/2008\/05\/09\/visual-studio-and-net-log-collection-utility.aspx\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/heaths\/archive\/2008\/05\/09\/visual-studio-and-net-log-collection-utility.aspx<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>   This blog is the best source of up to date information on installation issues.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A couple of things that I&#8217;ve seen come up&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Once you&#8217;ve installed it, you will need to make sure you &#8220;View installed updates&#8221; on Vista to see the SP1 installation in &#8220;Programs and Features&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>The Beta 1 client is fairly difficult to uninstall.&nbsp; See the read me above for info.&nbsp; The good news is that if you install it on your &#8220;real&#8221; machine, you don&#8217;t really have to uninstall it.&nbsp; The final release will install directly over top of the Beta.&nbsp; The TFS server Beta 1, on the other hand, must be uninstalled before installing the final release, but fortunately it&#8217;s pretty easy.<\/li>\n<li>There are some complexities around installing TFS with pre-release builds of SQL 2008.&nbsp; Read this blog <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/aabdou\/archive\/2008\/05\/13\/team-foundation-server-sp1-beta-now-available.aspx\">post<\/a> if you want to try it.&nbsp; This technique can actually be used even if you aren&#8217;t using SQL 2008 but is required if you are installing a new TFS install against a SQL 2008 server.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sorry for being a bit late to the game&#8230;&nbsp; I should have posted yesterday but I&#8217;ve been drowning.&nbsp; As you may already know, we released the Beta for 2008 SP1.&nbsp; I&#8217;m eager to have you try it out and give us feedback.&nbsp; You can find the list of new TFS features here. I do, however, [&hellip;]<\/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":[5,4],"class_list":["post-7711","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tfs","tag-visual-studio"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Sorry for being a bit late to the game&#8230;&nbsp; I should have posted yesterday but I&#8217;ve been drowning.&nbsp; As you may already know, we released the Beta for 2008 SP1.&nbsp; I&#8217;m eager to have you try it out and give us feedback.&nbsp; You can find the list of new TFS features here. 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