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Fixes for TFS 2012 Update 1 (aka Cumulative Update 1 for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 1)

We have now released a patch with a set of fixes for TFS 2012 Update 1. Many of you saw that we released a patch in early January and then pulled it down. This is the re-release.Shipping major changes to the server on this much faster cadence has been a learning experience for us. Brian wrote about some of the lessons we learned here. It turns...

Getting Started with Git in Visual Studio and Team Foundation Service

By Matthew Mitrik (MS), Andy Lewis, and Martin Woodward Today we announced the availability of Git for Visual Studio and Team Foundation Service. In this post, we'll walk through the new experiences. Get set up: Get the free service, and then you can use it with any Git client tools you want, including Visual Studio. To use the ...

Known Issue Upgrading from TFS 2012 Beta to Update 1

We would like to convey some information about a known upgrade issue with the February 29th Team Foundation Server 2012 Beta release.Recently, one of our customers reported hitting a block when trying to upgrade TFS 2012 Beta to the recent TFS Update 1 release.TF255438: The configuration database that you specified cannot be upgraded. The...

ALM Rangers ship update #1 for the Team Foundation Server Word Add-in

We are pleased to announce that we have released the first update to version (1.0.12.0622) of the Team Foundation Server Word Add-in, adding support for Word 2010 64-bit. See Word4TFS10-x64misi and Rangers_vsarword4tfs_1.0.12.0622_Everything.zip files in the latest (image) The add-in allows you to import work items from a Team Foundation ...

Quick Response Sample – Visual Studio Extension to support the ALM Rangers Branching and Merging guidance

Quick Response samples provide information directly from Visual Studio ALM Rangers working with the Microsoft Visual Studio Product Group and Microsoft Services, in response to feature gaps to supplement the product and knowledge base information. (image) Issue It is not simple to implement a consistent branching model, that complies with ...

Team Foundation Service is out of Preview

Earlier this morning at the Build conference here in Redmond we announced that Team Foundation Service is now out of Preview!  The new URL for the service is http://tfs.visualstudio.com. You can read about the changes here: http://tfs.visualstudio.com/en-us/pricing/information/ With this change, your accounts are now accessible at http://....

Set Local Workspaces as Default when Upgrading to TFS 2012

I was reminded yesterday by a customer about something in the upgrade process that I thought was a helpful reminder for all the TFS administrators.  If you are upgrading from an earlier version of Team Foundation Server to the recently released Team Foundation Server 2012, you’ll want to make sure you add one more step to your post-upgrade ...