{"id":153,"date":"2013-09-13T11:27:55","date_gmt":"2013-09-13T11:27:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/buckh\/2013\/09\/13\/team-foundation-service-2013-rc-is-go-liveuse-it-in-production\/"},"modified":"2013-09-13T11:27:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T11:27:55","slug":"team-foundation-service-2013-rc-is-go-liveuse-it-in-production","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/team-foundation-service-2013-rc-is-go-liveuse-it-in-production\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Foundation Service 2013 RC is go-live\u2013use it in production"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Have you upgraded to TFS 2013 RC yet? It&rsquo;s a supported, &ldquo;go-live&rdquo; release that you can use in production. We are using it ourselves in production our biggest internal server (I&rsquo;ve written about that server before).<\/p>\n<p>Download <a href=\"http:\/\/go.microsoft.com\/?linkid=9832366\">TFS 2013 RC<\/a> and upgrade.<\/p>\n<p>You can check out what&rsquo;s new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/eng\/2013-preview\">here<\/a> (hint: the background image at the top of that page shows off the new work item charting feature).<\/p>\n<p>One thing I want to point out is that Internet Explorer 8 is not supported for TFS 2013. You can use IE 8 (we don&rsquo;t block it), but you may encounter problems, and the issues will get worse moving forward (i.e., updates to TFS 2013) since we aren&rsquo;t testing it. Brian announced it back in February <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/bharry\/archive\/2013\/02\/08\/team-foundation-server-and-ie8.aspx\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Here are a few reasons you should upgrade.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>   <strong>Git support <\/strong>&ndash; full git support on the server where you can use our git experience built into <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/eng\/2013-downloads\">VS 2013<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com\/abafc7d6-dcaa-40f4-8a5e-d6724bdb980c\">add-in for VS 2012<\/a>, Eclipse, Xcode, <a href=\"http:\/\/code.google.com\/p\/msysgit\/\">Git for Windows<\/a>, and any other git client you want.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Coding commenting in the web UI<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px\" src=\"http:\/\/i.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/_base_v2\/images\/2013\/preview18.png\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Agile portfolio management<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px\" src=\"http:\/\/i.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/_base_v2\/images\/2013\/preview16.png\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Work item charting<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px\" src=\"http:\/\/i.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/_base_v2\/images\/2013\/rc03.png\"><\/p>\n<p><strong>Team rooms<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px\" src=\"http:\/\/i.microsoft.com\/visualstudio\/_base_v2\/images\/2013\/preview17.png\"><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<p><em>Follow me on Twitter at <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/tfsbuck\"><em>twitter.com\/tfsbuck<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you upgraded to TFS 2013 RC yet? 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Download TFS 2013 RC and upgrade. 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