{"id":1383,"date":"2008-08-29T22:27:14","date_gmt":"2008-08-29T22:27:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/buckh\/2008\/08\/29\/team-system-web-access-2008-sp1-is-now-available\/"},"modified":"2008-08-29T22:27:14","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T22:27:14","slug":"team-system-web-access-2008-sp1-is-now-available","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/team-system-web-access-2008-sp1-is-now-available\/","title":{"rendered":"Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 is now available!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve now released the final version of TSWA 2008 SP1, which had previously been released as a community technology preview (CTP).&nbsp; There are some fantastic new features in this release, including the ability for users without CALs to create work items.<\/p>\n<p>Also, this release includes 10 languages: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?displaylang=ja&amp;FamilyID=3ecd00ba-972b-4120-a8d5-3d38311893de\">Japanese<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?displaylang=ko&amp;FamilyID=3ecd00ba-972b-4120-a8d5-3d38311893de\">Korean<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?displaylang=es&amp;FamilyID=3ecd00ba-972b-4120-a8d5-3d38311893de\">Spanish<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?displaylang=de&amp;FamilyID=3ecd00ba-972b-4120-a8d5-3d38311893de\">German<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?displaylang=fr&amp;FamilyID=3ecd00ba-972b-4120-a8d5-3d38311893de\">French<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyId=3ECD00BA-972B-4120-A8D5-3D38311893DE&amp;displaylang=en\">English<\/a>, Chinese (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?displaylang=zh-cn&amp;FamilyID=3ecd00ba-972b-4120-a8d5-3d38311893de\">Simplified<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?displaylang=zh-tw&amp;FamilyID=3ecd00ba-972b-4120-a8d5-3d38311893de\">Traditional<\/a>), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?displaylang=ru&amp;FamilyID=3ecd00ba-972b-4120-a8d5-3d38311893de\">Russian<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?displaylang=it&amp;FamilyID=3ecd00ba-972b-4120-a8d5-3d38311893de\">Italian<\/a>.&nbsp; All 10 languages are included in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyId=3ECD00BA-972B-4120-A8D5-3D38311893DE&amp;displaylang=en\">download<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Since the installation package includes all ten languages, you may wonder why you can choose the language on the download web page.&nbsp; It turns out that the installer itself can only support one language for the installation wizard.&nbsp; So, when you choose the language on the download web page, you are choosing to download the installer in that language.&nbsp; The actual product that gets installed is the same for all languages and includes all languages.<\/p>\n<p><b>Download Team System Web Access 2008 SP1<\/b>  <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyId=3ECD00BA-972B-4120-A8D5-3D38311893DE\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/downloads\/details.aspx?FamilyId=3ECD00BA-972B-4120-A8D5-3D38311893DE<\/a>  <\/p>\n<p><b>New features in TSWA 2008 SP1 (compared to TSWA 2008)<\/b>  <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkID=125903\">Work item only view<\/a> (accessed at <strong>http:\/\/<\/strong>tswa-server<strong>:8090\/wiwa<\/strong>) provides access for users within your company that don&#8217;t have a TFS client access license (CAL), which was made possible by a licensing change in TFS for the 2008 release.&nbsp; It allows you to create new work items and edit work items you have created.&nbsp; Users of the full TSWA features must have CALs. The feature was previously available as a separate download called Work Item Web Access (WIWA) in the CTP.&nbsp; We&#8217;ve consolidated it into the TSWA installation process for the final release.  <\/li>\n<li>This release supports running a single instance with multiple languages.  <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=126663\">Work item template URLs<\/a> allow you to easily create an URL to include in emails, for example, so that users file bugs with particular fields pre-filled according to your needs.&nbsp; I wrote a post about this very useful feature in <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/buckh\/archive\/2008\/05\/14\/tswa-tip-how-to-use-the-new-tswa-template-url-feature-aka-initial-value-urls.aspx\">TSWA tip: How to use the new TSWA template URL feature (initial value URL)<\/a>.  <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=126665\">Share ad-hoc work item queries<\/a> by including WIQL in the URL.&nbsp; Normally, queries can only be shared by saving them as Team Queries in Team Explorer.&nbsp; Using this feature, you can embed the query in the URL by using the work item tracking query language directly.  <\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=126666\">Find and view Shelvesets<\/a> from within TSWA.&nbsp; For example, you can use this feature to perform code reviews using only your browser.  <\/li>\n<li>Improved <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/fwlink\/?LinkId=126667\">work item search syntax<\/a> (e.g., Title:&#8221;Bug Bash&#8221;) provides greater flexibility in searching for work items, greatly expanding the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/buckh\/archive\/2007\/11\/08\/tswa-tip-search-bugs-and-reports.aspx\">original search feature<\/a>.&nbsp; The search syntax follows Outlook and web search engine syntax.&nbsp; You can find some more examples of using it in my <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/buckh\/archive\/2008\/04\/09\/team-system-web-access-2008-sp1-ctp-and-work-item-web-access-2008-ctp-are-now-available.aspx\">post<\/a> about the release of the CTP (second half of that post).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Additionally, I&#8217;ve posted periodically about the great features in TSWA in posts tagged <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/buckh\/archive\/tags\/TSWA+Tip\/default.aspx\">TSWA Tip<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wlWriterSmartContent\" id=\"scid:0767317B-992E-4b12-91E0-4F059A8CECA8:2b1fd65c-e4c2-4b90-b247-8f613e4eedcc\" style=\"padding-right: 0px;padding-left: 0px;padding-bottom: 0px;margin: 0px;padding-top: 0px\">Technorati tags: <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/team%20foundation%20server%202008\" rel=\"tag\">team foundation server 2008<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/tswa\" rel=\"tag\">tswa<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/technorati.com\/tags\/team%20system%20web%20access\" rel=\"tag\">team system web access<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ve now released the final version of TSWA 2008 SP1, which had previously been released as a community technology preview (CTP).&nbsp; There are some fantastic new features in this release, including the ability for users without CALs to create work items. Also, this release includes 10 languages: Japanese, Korean, Spanish, German, French, English, Chinese (Simplified [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":10268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[6,8,9],"class_list":["post-1383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-source-control","tag-team-foundation","tag-team-system-web-access"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>We&#8217;ve now released the final version of TSWA 2008 SP1, which had previously been released as a community technology preview (CTP).&nbsp; There are some fantastic new features in this release, including the ability for users without CALs to create work items. 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