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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://.visualst...

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 plan. ...

We are pleased to announce that we have released the first version (1.0.12.0622) of the Team Foundation Server Word Add-in. The add-in allows you to import work items from a Team Foundation Server Team Project and generate professional-looking Word document from TFS Work items. For more information on this project, please visit the TFS Wo...

An update to Visual Studio 2010 SP1 with compatibility support for Visual Studio 2012 and Windows 8 is available for download at Download Center and as a Microsoft Update.After you apply the Microsoft update, the following Visual Studio 2010 SP1 Test Tools features are improved for Windows 8:Here are the list of new features: The Update also...

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 into...

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 indicat...

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 little “h” that appe...

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, we d...

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 for VS ...

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 from...