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Planning and Tracking – Flat TOC

September 28, 2012 Sep 28, 2012 09/28/12

Kathryn Elliott

Sometimes it's nice to see what's available all on one page. Here's a flat TOC of the Planning and Tracking Projects content for VS ALM Team Foundation Server 2012. While this view doesn't represent all the topics available under the Planning and Tracking node - it does represent the most often viewed topics and those which can take you deeper...

Keyboard Shortcuts for Team Web Access and Team Explorer

September 28, 2012 Sep 28, 2012 09/28/12

Kathryn Elliott

You can use the following keyboard shortcuts within Team Web Access or Team Explorer.  You can use the ARROW keys to change the focus. Use the ARROW keys to navigate within lists, menus, to expand/collapse hierarchical data, or to scroll the page. You can use the following keyboard shortcuts to perform the ...

Customizable Process Guidance for VS ALM 2012

September 11, 2012 Sep 11, 2012 09/11/12

Kathryn Elliott

Customizable process guidance is now available for each of the default process templates that VS ALM Team Foundation Server provides. You can download and unzip these files, modify them to support your team processes, and redirect the process guidance link to your customized content. For downloads, see Customizable Process Guidance Content ...

Choosing the Right Tool for the Task to Manage Projects, Collaborate, and Monitor Progress in Visual Studio ALM

September 6, 2012 Sep 6, 2012 09/6/12

Kathryn Elliott

If you are using Visual Studio TFS 2013, you can find this level of information in the following topic: Choose the Team Foundation client to support your tasks.In Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 you have a number of tools to perform some familiar tasks as well as excercise new tasks. In some cases, you can only exercise some features...

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

August 21, 2012 Aug 21, 2012 08/21/12

Kathryn Elliott

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 17, 2012 Aug 17, 2012 08/17/12

Kathryn Elliott

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. ...

Team Foundation Server 2012 and Project Server 2010 Integration

August 9, 2012 Aug 9, 2012 08/9/12

Charles Sterling

(Reposting for Christophe from: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/chrisfie/archive/2012/08/08/team-foundation-server-2012-and-project-server-2010-integration.aspx)   Following last week’s RTM announcements for Windows 8 and Visual Studio 2012 I have been upgrading a few PCs including one of my favorite demo virtual machine: Visual Studio Team ...

How to improve the performance of the first connect to TFS

June 6, 2012 Jun 6, 2012 06/6/12

Ewald Hofman - MSFT

When you create your first connection to TFS the local client downloads the metadata required to work with the TFS work items. By default it downloads the metadata for all team projects in a collection, including the ones that you don't have access to. Martin Woodward has a great blog post if you want to read more on the background info, ...

How to Configure Features for dozens of team projects

May 31, 2012 May 31, 2012 05/31/12

Ewald Hofman - MSFT

In a previous post, I have told you how the Configure Features wizard works to upgrade the team projects on your TFS server. It works great. However if you are an administrator of dozens of team projects, you don't want to walk through the wizard for each team project. Luckily we have a solution for you, which is outlined in this post. You ...

Deep Dive on Configure Features

May 31, 2012 May 31, 2012 05/31/12

Ewald Hofman - MSFT

Upgrading is hard. We have heard a lot of comments about the pain that people had to deal with during the upgrade of the team projects from TFS 2008 to TFS 2010. For TFS 2012 we make this upgrade much easier for customers with none to limited customizations with a wizard. This post is in addition to the documentation on MSDN, and will go ...