Kathryn Elliott

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Enable Remote Audio Capture to when Testing or Providing Feedback on Remote Machines

August 24th, 2012
To record audio as part of a feedback or testing session on a remote machine that is running Microsoft Feedback Client, Test Runner, or Exploratory Testing window, you must configure audio redirection settings on the remote machine. You must also enable “record from this computer” when you connect to the remote machine. You can perform ...

Introducing an Integrated Work Item Field Reference for Visual Studio ALM and TFS

August 21st, 2012
Have you ever wanted a single place to see what all the fields are that are defined in Team Foundation Server? Well now you can. Here are two new resources you can use to look up a definition and quickly see which fields are written to the relational database and which are stored in the Analysis Services cube. These cover all the fields...

Work Item Field Attributes – What You Can and Can’t Change

August 17th, 2012
As a project administrator, you may need to modify a field that's being used in your team project. This post provides a quick reference as to what you can and can't change and how you make the change.   Attributes That You Can Change Across a Team Project Collection Here are the attributes that you can change for a work item field. ...

Resolving Issues with the RC Version of TFS Office Integration After Installing Visual Studio 2012 RC and then Office Customer Preview

July 25th, 2012
You may encounter problems when opening an RC version of an Office Integration Team Foundation client after you install the Visual Studio 2012 RC.These problems occur when you install the following products in the indicated sequence: The issues that you might encounter are:  These issues are fixed in the RTM release of Office....

Storyboarding with PowerPoint – Short Videos to Get You Started

December 19th, 2011
We’ve created a few videos to help you quickly get started with PowerPoint Storyboarding. Each video lasts between 1 and 2 minutes. Getting Started To see this in action: [View:http://blogs.msdn.com/cfs-file.ashx/__key/communityserver-blogs-components-weblogfiles/00-00-00-45-92/4263.GettingStarted.wmv] Add and Share Custom ...

What’s New in the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 11 Developer Preview

September 20th, 2011
This post provides an overview of most (but I don't promise ALL!) of the new tools, features, and enhancements available in the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 11 Developer Preview: For a tutorial that illustrates several of these new features by following a fictitious team as they incrementally adopt Visual Studio as its ...

Significant Changes Made to Streamline the Content for Work Item Type Schema Reference

January 24th, 2011
A move has been afoot to eliminate topics that no one is reading anyway. By consolidating content into a smaller topic set, we believe that you will more easily access the information that supports you in accomplishing your tasks. In the area of defining and customizing the definitions of work item types, this initiative has represented a...

Manage and Track Your Software Project Portfolio in both Team Foundation and Project Server

December 9th, 2010
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 and Project Server Integration Feature Pack (Beta) enables data to flow from work items in Team Foundation to tasks in enterprise project plans. If you subscribe to MSDN, you can now manage your portfolio of software projects using work items in Team Foundation Server 2010 that are mapped to tasks in ...