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Oct 30, 2006
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Moving the TFS SharePoint site to another server

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

Brian Harry talks about the documentation on how to move your TFS SharePoint installation to a different server.  It's important to note that he calls this out as not being a trivial undertaking, so you'll want to be extremely cautious. Moving your TFS SharePoint site We've gotten tons of requests since we shipped TFS v1.0 from customers who ...

Team Foundation Server
Oct 26, 2006
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A checkin policy to detect that the build is broken in a CI environment

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

One important aspect of Continuous Integration is getting notification that the build is broken.  One common way is via a desktop notification from an application like TfsAlert that listens for events (or polls if there isn't a TFS-style event notification mechanism).Ideally, the build or unit test break would be noticed as soon as it ...

Team Foundation ServerSource ControlTeam Build
Oct 26, 2006
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Getting desktop notifications for TFS events

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

Clark Sell has created a home on CodePlex for a useful desktop notification tool called TfsAlert. TfsAlert is a .Net 3.0 smart client which monitors for user selected TFS events and will display a balloon window in the Windows TaskBar Notification Area. It is built on top of WCF where you can subscribe to any TFS event you feel fit. It's ...

Team Foundation ServerTeam BuildTFS API
Oct 25, 2006
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Visual Studio Team System Chat – Wednesday, Nov. 8th

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In addition, discuss what's new in the latest Community Technology Preview (CTP). November 8, 200610:00 - 11:00 A.M. Pacific TimeAdditional Time ...

Team Foundation ServerSource ControlTeam Build
Oct 25, 2006
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Project Server 2003 – Team Foundation connector released

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

This was released today.  Here's the announcement from the GotDotNet workspace. ANNOUNCING THE VISUAL STUDIO TEAM SYSTEM - PROJECT SERVER CONNECTOR! We are pleased to announce general availability of the Project Server 2003 – Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2005 Connector  application. The Connector can be downloaded here: http...

Team Foundation ServerWork Item Tracking
Oct 22, 2006
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Updated list of continuous integration tools for TFS

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

I've updated my post More continuous integration with Team Build to include tools released after that post was written.tags: tfs, team foundation server, team build...

Team Foundation ServerTeam Build
Oct 20, 2006
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An Introduction to Team Foundation Server Version Control from a Visual SourceSafe User’s Perspective

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

Steven St. Jean has just posted a great document that helps users make the move to Team Foundation Server's version control.  While his goal is to help VSS users, this document will help users moving from a lot of other source control systems as well, such as Star Team.  He includes lots of screen shots.I'd highly recommend this to folks ...

Team Foundation ServerSource Control
Oct 20, 2006
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Team System Virtual PC image, including Team Foundation Server

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

Someone recently asked me whether there is a VPC image available for Team System and Team Foundation.  There is one available to MSDN subscribers in the download area.  It’s under Developer Tools -> Visual Studio 2005 -> English -> Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite Trial Edition (For Evaluation Only).Earlier versions of this ...

Team Foundation ServerSource ControlTeam Build
Oct 17, 2006
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Assigning work items for failed builds

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

Steven St. Jean has written a nice post about how to assign to a particular person the work item that's created for a failed build.  When he talks about the name for the Assigned To field, it must match the name that's displayed in work item tracking.  WIT shows the display name for a user, rather than the shorter domain login (aka alias...

Team Foundation ServerTeam Build
Oct 17, 2006
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Creating a new server from an old one: Beware of the InstanceId

Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges

[UPDATE 8/23/14] The MSDN topic Move Team Foundation Server has the information about cloning TFS 2013. Today, that info is in the Q&A section at the bottom of that page.[This post contains instructions for TFS 2005/2008 and TFS 2010, which is in a separate section below]Grant Holliday wrote a post called, TFS InstanceId, ServerMap.xml and ...

Team Foundation ServerSource ControlTeam Build

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