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[Update 3/16/11]  There is a KB article with TFS 2010 SP1 installation troubleshooting should you hit problems: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2516423. Problem A customer ran into this issue, and I want to post it to help anyone else who hits it.  The symptom is that you install Service Pack 1 for Team Foundation Server 2010, and it fa...

If you are responsible for work with your team’s build system, you will definitely want to buy a copy of Inside the Microsoft Build Engine: Using MSBuild and Team Foundation Build (Second Edition).  Both of the authors now work for Microsoft.  William Bartholomew is part of the central engineering team and has been building the infrastruc...

Vishal Joshi, lead program manager for web platform tools, has a great blog covering using various project types with Team Foundation Build.  Here’s a selection of his posts on using team build, which I highly recommend if you are working with web projects. Technorati Tags: team foundation,build,web projects,team build

Question: Can a TFS 2010 Team Project Collection (TPC) on SQL Server 2008 Enterprise be down converted to SQL Server Standard 2008 edition? Answer: This is covered in the 2010 Upgrade guide post. The script is: exec prc_EnablePrefixCompression @online = 0, @disable = 1 (answer provided by Ed Holloway)

[UPDATE 3/24/12]  You can find a real code metrics activity here as part of the Community TFS Build Extensions. Cameron Skinner has announced a new command line tool for generating code metrics.  We’ve long gotten requests to be able to generate code metrics from the build.  Prior to this tool, code metrics c...

The folks who produce our documentation continue to experiment and find ways to improve our documentation.  The most recent change involves consolidating docs.  I’d encourage you to take a look and give them feedback. Significant Changes Made to Streamline the Content for Work Item Type Schema Reference A move has been afoot to...

Do you want to be a developer on the TFS team, solve challenging problems, and break new ground in ALM?  Then join the TFS development team in Redmond, WA.You’ll notice that we mention cloud computing with Azure below.  If you saw the PDC keynote demos this year, you saw some early work on getting TFS running on Azure.  If you ...

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Please take a moment to provide feedback to the documentation team on the changes they’ve made recently.  They want to know what you think.  Thanks! We need your input on how well our improvements to the MSDN Library content work for you. Allen Clark has reorganized the topic: "Extending Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Managem...

[UPDATE 11/5/12] I wanted to add that when using either the hierarchy view or the track changeset view, you can use Ctrl-C when the window has focus to get an image of it copied to the clipboard rather than having to use a screenshot tool. One of the great features in TFS 2010 is the ability to track changesets across branches. A prime user sc...