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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 ...

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 VP...

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)...

[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 havo...

Etienne Tremblay, a Microsoft MVP, put up a nice Visio diagram showing the ports used by Team Build and the direction that must be opened for each.  Check it out! Team build the ins and outs So we learn stuff everyday... well I hope.  Here is a bit of insight on Team Build, specifically the ports that need to be opened for it to...

Neno Loje, a Microsoft MVP, posted a nice list of knowledge base articles for Team Foundation.  Here's the list (copied from his post). So I thought I'd try searching the KB to see how easy it is to get this list.  Well, I don't like the search interface.  If I search by product for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server...

Brian Keller has put up a video on Channel 9 that has Erin Geaney, a developer on the TFS MS Office integration team, demonstrating the Team Foundation Power Toys that we updated recently.  The original release of the power toys was nearly a year ago and was the work of an intern who worked for me, Philip Kelley (he also wrote a paper on how t...

Naren Datha<, a dev who works on the WIT client, has written a post on how to use the new work item tracking custom controls that are introduced in SP1 beta (he previously mentioned some ideas for custom controls).  He provides an overview, details on how to create custom controls, some hints for troubleshooting, and a sample in a zip file ...

This week, a couple of people asked (forum post 1 and forum post 2) how to subscribe to the CheckinEvent notification when there's a checkin under a particular tree.  The first person wanted to filter by path in order to kick off continuous integration.  The second person wanted to filter by path for email subscriptions.Here's the command...

For Team Build users, I'll spare you the suspense and tell you that there are no meaningful changes in Team Build itself in SP1.  There are changes in other parts of the system, though, that will be of some benefit.Version control users will get a number of fixes, but most are related to scalability.Brian Harry described many of the TFS S...