Using Work Items

December 15, 2005 Dec 15, 2005 12/15/05
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Team Foundation has work item tracking features designed to assist enterprise software development teams to manage their work and software defect tracking. In Team Foundation, a work item tracks this work, and can be one of the individual tasks required to complete a project, a bug that needs to be fixed, a customer scenario that the project ...

Using the Team Project Portal

December 15, 2005 Dec 15, 2005 12/15/05
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The team project portal is the single location you can visit for information about the team project. If the process template used to create your team project included a project portal, or if a portal was added later, your project portal may include the following: For more information about the layout and use of your project portal, see the ...

Some Team Foundation Server security documentation for you today

December 13, 2005 Dec 13, 2005 12/13/05
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Hello again!As promised, we're back again this week with advance-copy looks at two documents concerning Team Foundation Server security: Team Foundation Server Security Concepts and Team Foundation Server Security Architecture.  We'd love to see any questions, comments, or requests you might have.And speaking of requests, our next doc ...

Team Foundation Server Security Architecture

December 13, 2005 Dec 13, 2005 12/13/05
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IntroductionTo analyze and plan for Team Foundation Server security, you must consider the Team Foundation application tier, the Team Foundation data tier, the Team Foundation client tier, and the interactions between them. You will have to know what Web services, databases, and object models are used. You will also have to know what network ...

Team Foundation Server Security Concepts

December 13, 2005 Dec 13, 2005 12/13/05
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IntroductionTo secure Team Foundation Server, you must understand how Team Foundation Server works and how it communicates with other Team Foundation components. A Team Foundation Server administrator should be familiar with Windows authentication, network protocols and traffic, and the structure of the business network on which Team ...

Team Foundation Server Default Groups, Permissions, and Roles

December 9, 2005 Dec 9, 2005 12/9/05
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IntroductionWhen you create a new project in Team Foundation Server, new project-level groups are created for that project, by default, and are assigned permissions to access resources appropriate to that group. To customize projects to better suit your business needs, you must understand what permissions are assigned to which users and groups...

Team Foundation Server Permissions

December 8, 2005 Dec 8, 2005 12/8/05
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IntroductionAuthorization for user actions, such as workspace administration and project creation, are determined by permissions. When you create a project in Team Foundation Server, four default groups are created for that project regardless of your choice of process template. By default, each of these groups has a set of permissions defined ...

Backup and Restore Procedures

December 5, 2005 Dec 5, 2005 12/5/05
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For updated content appicable to the RTM version of Team Foundation Server, visit: http://blogs.msdn.com/vstsue/articles/511396.aspx...

Process Planning Guide

June 14, 2005 Jun 14, 2005 06/14/05
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SummaryProcess templates define key aspects of a team project that affect how a team works. By customizing a process template, you can define security for team project control, what templates are available on the project portal, source code control check in notes, new work item types and queries, reports for monitoring and status, and which ...

Setting Permissions in Team Foundation

May 27, 2005 May 27, 2005 05/27/05
RobCaron
Summary This preliminary technical article describes how to set up permissions for the security scenarios supported by Visual Studio Team System Beta 2. Applies To Visual Studio Team System Beta 2 Important   This document supports a preliminary release of a software product that may be changed substantially prior to final ...