How to detect whether Team Explorer is installed

Buck HodgesMarch 31, 2006Mar 31, 200603/31/06

On an internal list, the question of how to detect whether Team Explorer is installed came up.  I didn't know the answer, and I figure there are others that would like to know this.To detect Team Explorer, look for the registry key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREMicrosoftVisualStudio8.0InstalledProductsTeam Explorer with a DWORD entry called U

DIY: Running TFS using a named instance in SQL

Buck HodgesMarch 29, 2006Mar 29, 200603/29/06

The question about using a named instance with TFS has come up several times, and it came up again today on an internal mailing list.  As to why we don't support it in V1, Brian Harry states that it was the time to get it into setup and the additional testing that led to the decision to postpone it to a future version.However, for those o

Licensing differences between TFS Workgroup Edition and TFS Standard Edition

Buck HodgesMarch 28, 2006Mar 28, 200603/28/06

Recently Ajay Sudan, Product Manager for VSTS, answered a question regarding some confusion over the differences between TFS Workgroup Edition and TFS Standard Edition.  Here is how he summed it up. TFS Workgroup Edition is not licensed on a Server/CAL model. This means CALs are not required when using the Workgroup Edition. For this reas

TFS standby application tier and database clustering

Buck HodgesMarch 27, 2006Mar 27, 200603/27/06

Keith Hill had seen mention of a standby application tier in the slides I posted and asked for more information.  I sent email to Bill Essary, and he replied with the following links covering server availability.Ensuring Team Foundation Server AvailabilityYou can control when you take the servers offline for maintenance. However, you must

Update on the TFS source control provider for applications other than VS 2005 (MSSCCI provider)

Buck HodgesMarch 24, 2006Mar 24, 200603/24/06

Brian Harry has posted an update on the status of the TFS source control provider.  It's currently scheduled for release the week of April 3rd.Here is the list of applications tested.  There are more applications that support the MSSCCI provider model than we have resources to test, so he also requests your help in reporting issues w

How to move your Team Foundation Server

Buck HodgesMarch 22, 2006Mar 22, 200603/22/06

There is now draft documentation available that describes how to move a TFS server.Moving Your Team Foundation Server Deployment

Slides from a TFS version control presentation

Buck HodgesMarch 22, 2006Mar 22, 200603/22/06

Yesterday, Ed Hintz and I gave a "brown bag" presentation in Redmond for some internal groups that will begin using TFS.  I've created a public version of the slides and attached it to this post.  The presentation goes over a few concepts (the intended audience is already quite familiar with source control), shows some comm

How to check in changes on behalf of other users

Buck HodgesMarch 20, 2006Mar 20, 200603/20/06

Recently someone asked how to check in changes for another user.  There are at least two good scenarios where this is needed.  One is for check-in systems such as the Gauntlet system we used internally during the development of TFS.  Rather than check in directly, developers would shelve their changes and put them in the Gauntle