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Aug 2, 2007
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Team System Web Access: Workaround for installation problem on a non-English Windows OS

Buck Hodges

[UPDATE 8/8/07]  There is now a KB article on this issue. Hakan posted the following on Brian Harry's blog in response to a customer report about encountering the following issue when installing the new Team System Web Access release on German, French, Italian or Spanish Windows.  We plan to add this to the FAQ page. Symptom...

Team System Web Access
Aug 2, 2007
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Deleting test results from a build

Buck Hodges

In either TFS 2005 or TFS 2008, you can delete the test results published against a build (How to: Publish Test Results).  However, discovering this feature may be difficult, and I didn't find it on MSDN in a quick search of the docs. What you'll need to do is to bring up the build details (aka the build report) in Visual Studio.  Then ex...

Team Foundation ServerTeam BuildVSTS
Aug 2, 2007
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TFS 2008 beta 2: How to add a Network Service account to the Build Services group

Buck Hodges

We changed the build agent setup such that the default presented in the setup GUI is to use Network Service as the build service account.  One big advantage of doing this is that the Network Service account doesn't have a password that expires, removing one annoying administrative issue. Once you install the build agent, you need to add the s...

Team Foundation ServerTeam Build
Aug 1, 2007
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Vote for your favorite version control system to migrate to TFS

Buck Hodges

Matt Mitrik, program managers for the TFS migration and synchronization toolkit, wants to know which version control systems are most important for them to focus on.  Go here and vote now. What migration tools are you looking for? I've heard plenty of requests for tools to migrate data from competitor products to TFS, and I'm trying to fin...

Team Foundation ServerSource Control