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Locking and git-tf and… danger?

October 16, 2012 Oct 16, 2012 10/16/12

Charles Sterling

(The other one of Edward’s posts)  ***************************** If you haven't yet seen or heard about the new git-tf tool from Microsoft, this blog post probably won't make any sense.  So...  go check it out over at gittf.codeplex.com.  It's okay, I'll wait. Okay, got it?  Yeah, I know, it's cool, right?  Well, it is, but like...

Team Foundation Server and Xcode projects with git-tf

October 16, 2012 Oct 16, 2012 10/16/12

Charles Sterling

  One of the Team Foundation Server Developers, Edward Thomson, reached out to me this morning: Any way I could get my blog with the fancy new VS 2012 styles? My answer was: “We are only doing this for the team blogs…any reason you aren’t posting to the ALM blog? Turns out he didn’t know to do this…Doh!…Shame on me...

Unattended Installation of Team Foundation Server 2012/2013

October 12, 2012 Oct 12, 2012 10/12/12

AndreaMS

This post instructs you on how to run an unattended installation of Team Foundation Server, a new feature to TFS 2012.  There is another copy of this post located here, on the TFS Setup, Administration, and Operations blog. **Note: **As nothing in this area has changed for TFS 2013, the title of this document has been amended to encompass ...

Network Considerations for TFS Proxy Servers

October 10, 2012 Oct 10, 2012 10/10/12

Charles Sterling

 Just had dinner with one of my buddies in TFS and they pointed out a great post by Ed that didn’t make to the team blog: Enjoy! If you are installing a TFS Proxy server on a machine that is configured to automatically receive the proxy settings from your network (this is different than DHCP) you may have connectivity ...

Managing automatic updates for Microsoft Test Manager and Microsoft Feedback Client

October 10, 2012 Oct 10, 2012 10/10/12

Charles Sterling

In the Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 CTP blog post one of the new test features listed was: Automatic updates for Microsoft Test Manager and Microsoft Feedback Client. Since these user interfaces do not have a the normal File, Edit, Tools, Help menu structure i thought it would be nice to show how this functionality is accessed/changed...

Enabling Test Case Management features in Team Foundation Server Web Access

October 8, 2012 Oct 8, 2012 10/8/12

Charles Sterling

  Update: We have moved the test case management features for Web Access to Visual Studio Update 2.   So when you install the latest CTP for Visual Studio Update 1 these test features will no longer be present.  We plan to re-enable these features in the CTPs for Visual Studio Update 2. For a final list of all the features in Visual ...

Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 CTP

October 8, 2012 Oct 8, 2012 10/8/12

Charles Sterling

11/26/2012 Update.  Note The final release of Visual Studio Update 1 now available, please see: Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 1 now availableAlso Note the KB of fixes is now available: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2797915/EN-US SummaryVisual Studio 2012 Update is providing continuous value to customers, ...

Coded UI Test Support Matrix

October 5, 2012 Oct 5, 2012 10/5/12

Shubhra Maji MSFT

Please do not use the information in the post below as it is out of date. Updated information about Coded UI Test Support Matrix can now be found at: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd380742.aspx...

Set Local Workspaces as Default when Upgrading to TFS 2012

October 5, 2012 Oct 5, 2012 10/5/12

Ed Blankenship

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 ...

ALM Rangers ship the first version of Team Foundation Server Word Add-in

October 4, 2012 Oct 4, 2012 10/4/12

Willy-P. Schaub

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 ...