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Dec 7, 2011
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Team Foundation Service Preview – Upload Source to Your Hosted Account

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UPDATE June 11, 2012 - This blog post series has been updated by our new beginner's guide hosted here. **  This blog post is part of the Beginner’s Guide series with the goal to get you productive fast. This post walks you step-by-step to get your source code stored in your Team Foundation Services Preview account.   Congratulations! Your source is now in the cloud, yet still accessible via the Visual Studio interface. If you are new to Version Control and Source Control Explorer, or simply want to dig deeper, you’ll find extensive coverage on the MSDN website: Using Version Control. What’s next? Now you...

Dec 7, 2011
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Team Foundation Service Preview – Connect Visual Studio 2010 to Your TFS Preview Account

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UPDATE June 11, 2012 - This blog post series has been updated by our new beginner's guide hosted here. **  This blog post is part of the Beginner’s Guide series with the goal to get you productive fast. Visual Studio can work seamlessly with the source, tasks, and builds stored in TFS. This post shows you how to connect Visual Studio to your TFS Preview Account.   That’s it! You have now connected your IDE to your very own Team Foundation Server in the cloud. How cool is that? What’s next? Now you can:

Dec 7, 2011
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Team Foundation Service Preview – Add Team Members to Your Project

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UPDATE June 11, 2012 - This blog post series has been updated by our new beginner's guide hosted here. **  This blog post is part of the Beginner’s Guide series with the goal to get you productive fast. In this post, we will show you how to add members to your project, so you and your friends can collaborate in the cloud.               Congratulations! You’ve learned to share. Your mother would be proud. What’s next? Now you can:

Dec 7, 2011
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Team Foundation Service Preview – Create team project

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UPDATE June 11, 2012 - This blog post series has been updated by our new beginner's guide hosted here. **  This blog post is part of the Beginner’s Guide series with the goal to get you productive fast. Once you’ve created your account, you need to create a project. A project is where you store all your source code, as well as tasks and builds.   Done! You now have your very own TFS Server in the cloud.        What’s next? Now you can:       

Dec 7, 2011
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Team Foundation Service Preview – Beginner’s Guide

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UPDATE June 11, 2012 - This blog post series has been updated by our new beginner's guide hosted here.This blog post series includes step-by-step instructions to get you productive as quickly as possible.Click on any of the links below to get started… If there are other topics you’d like covered, let us know.

Dec 5, 2011
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MSDN Article – Visual Studio ALM Rangers: Rise of the VM Factory

Willy-P. Schaub

Brian Blackman, Paul Meyer (VMFactory Master) and Willy-Peter Schaub have just published an article in MSDN Magazine (December Edition), which delves into the Virtual Machine Factory (VM Factory), exploring its concepts and advantages. Read all about it here.

Nov 28, 2011
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QFEs and Hotfix Rollup Package for Microsoft Test Manager 2010

Charles Sterling

In response to your requests and feedback on Uservoice and Connect we have released several QFEs and a Hotfix Rollup Package for Microsoft Test Manager.  Highlights of these updates include:  For more information on the entire list of updates or for download information please see the blog post: QFEs for Microsoft Test Manager 2010To submit more feedback please see:

Nov 28, 2011
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Three new TFS Training Modules at MSDN Virtual Labs

Charles Sterling

At the recent ALM Summit it was clear people are hungry for TFS Training.  Always quick to help out, the folks over at MSDN Virtual Labs have introduced three new TFS Training Modules!   MSDN Virtual Lab: TFS Training Kit: Module 1 After completing this lab, you will be better able to create and delete team projects, set a process template as the default template for all new projects, fill out work item fields with text and integer fields, which can either be entered freely or from pre-defined values, link an existing work item to a new work item, creating the latter in the process, create a new work item in...

Nov 22, 2011
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ALM Summit in Redmond

Charles Sterling

Last week at the ALM Summit I ran the Visual Studio 11 Application Lifecycle Management Virtual Machine and Hands-On-Labs with a bunch of the MVPs from Imaginet .   In my opinion, this conference represents one of the best showcases of Microsoft ALM tools in the wild and it was really satisfying to see so many development teams have moved beyond awareness of agile methodology to successful adoption and implementations.  In general the questions changed their tone from last year: “We are considering trying the following…” to “In our last sprint we ran into the following impediment…” ...