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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 ...

TFS/Agile PM: Configuring so your tasks are estimated in story points

September 24, 2012 Sep 24, 2012 09/24/12

Gregg Boer

I’ve had a few people ask: “What if I estimate my tasks in something other than hours, like ideal days or story points?” The truth of the matter is, the “Remaining Work” field on the Task work item is just a dumb integer. You can enter anything you like in it. The only thing that even references what unit it might be in is the ...

Team Foundation Service: Process template changes

September 19, 2012 Sep 19, 2012 09/19/12

Gregg Boer

With this latest Team Foundation Service update, we have updated the process template versions for all the templates. Agile and CMMI are at 6.1. Scrum is at 2.1. This reflects a few minor improvements we've made:- For Agile, the User Story's state model has been updated to allow you to transition from any state to any other state. - For Scrum...

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...

Clearing the credentials for connecting to a Team Foundation Server

August 29, 2012 Aug 29, 2012 08/29/12

Charles Sterling

Ran in to a situation a couple of days ago where i needed to log into a Team Foundation Server as a different user - and since Visual Studio/Team Explorer "remembers" your last credentials you don't have a chance to re-enter these credentials. This information is cached even after removing and re-adding the server in team explorer. Which ...

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

August 24, 2012 Aug 24, 2012 08/24/12

Kathryn Elliott

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 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. ...

Test Attachment, Version Control and Database sizes in Team Foundation server

August 14, 2012 Aug 14, 2012 08/14/12

Charles Sterling

One of our ALM Rangers, Mattias Sköld, was finding that he was recreating the same SQL queries to determine the size of his Test attachments, Version control etc. With this in mind he has now extended his TFS Administrators Toolkit to include this functionality...

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