New Role for Team System , January 1, 0001 Microsoft announced its new DBA role for Team System yesterday! This is exciting because it extends the database project that was in 2003 and 2005 and includes features like adding procedure code to TFS ... New Role for Team System 0 0 0
Moving VSTS Databases , January 1, 0001 I have been installing Team Foundation Server since Beta 2, so I have seen the installation go from very difficult to quite easy. One issue that we came across at my client site was that the default installation ... Moving VSTS Databases 0 0 0
LiveMeeting and VPC , January 1, 0001 I have been doing a few web casts for Team System recently and found out that presenting from a VPC over LiveMeeting is absolutely horrible. I have a 3.4 gig laptop with 2 gigs of RAM, so my machine is ... LiveMeeting and VPC 0 0 0
Creating a Daily Build , January 1, 0001 Team Build is a very powerful tool, but it does not do scheduled builds out of the box. Fortunately, creating a scheduled build is very easy. With my current project, I have created a Build Type called ... Creating a Daily Build 0 0 0
Changing the Email Server Information for Team System (RC) , January 1, 0001 Here is an interesting issue that I came across recently. My Team Foundation Server had been installed with a email server that it could not get to. I had to change the server name because I could not ... Changing the Email Server Information for Team System (RC) 0 0 0
Customize your TFS Template Kirstin Juhl, January 1, 0001 One of the questions that came out of my TFS talk at the Magenic Technology Summit was: How do you go about customizing one of the existing templates provided for TFS, such as MSF Agile? We may want to ... Customize your TFS Template 0 0 14
Magenic Technology Summit in the Rear View Mirror Kirstin Juhl, January 1, 0001 The Magenic Technology Summit has come and gone. It was a great event with many good sessions and lots of networking. I spoke on TFS, and it was a good session. It was way too short though! I was tagged ... Magenic Technology Summit in the Rear View Mirror 0 0 0
How To: Win the Tech Sea… Mohammad Ashraful Alam, January 1, 0001 Microsoft is releasing new and exciting products and platforms for developers one by one, which are making developers pretty busy to learn, implement and utilize them at their production environment. Here ... How To: Win the Tech Sea… 0 0 0
'Symlinks' in Windows Nitin, January 1, 0001 If you're a fan of symbolic links in *nix, you'll probably be excited to know that we've got them in the Windows world too (and they're called NTFS junction points). The reason most people haven't heard ... 'Symlinks' in Windows 0 0 0
Office 2007 documents on TFS 2005 WSS 2.0 Team Site Ryan C, January 1, 0001 I'm sure a few people want to get their Office 2007 documents into WSS 2.0, especially anyone using TFS 2005. I found a great article that steps you through the process of helping WSS understand the document ... Office 2007 documents on TFS 2005 WSS 2.0 Team Site 0 0 0
Cool tool for Areas and Iterations Mike Azocar, January 1, 0001 The other day I needed to import a long list of Areas into my client's TFS server. I had the list in Excel, but I did not want to enter them manually. I searched around the web (using Live Search, thank ... Cool tool for Areas and Iterations 0 0 0
Light Weight Scrum for Project Server? Mike Azocar, January 1, 0001 Let's face it, PMP project managers are not going away any time soon. To that end, we have release a version of the Light Weight Scrum process template that works with the Project Server 2007 Connector. ... Light Weight Scrum for Project Server? 0 0 0
TFS on Windows 2008 64 bit Step by Step Mike Azocar, January 1, 0001 I took the plunge. I have had the bits for 2008 for a little while and I finally decided to set it up for my TFS environment. Windows Server 2003 is so last year! My buddy ET blogged a few weeks ago on ... TFS on Windows 2008 64 bit Step by Step 0 0 2
Eric Lee Comes Through Mike Azocar, January 1, 0001 I have been bugging Eric Lee to release an update to his work item moving tool called Hemi. Not only did he release it, but he created a CodePlex project so that the community can also extend it in the ... Eric Lee Comes Through 0 0 0
Want to be famous? Enter the Coolest Team System Gadget Contest! Mike Azocar, January 1, 0001 Have you created a useful gadget for Team System? Do you have one in mind? I am looking for the coolest community built tool for VSTS. It can be something for TFS, for Visual Studio, or something that ... Want to be famous? Enter the Coolest Team System Gadget Contest! 0 0 0
VSTS User Group Meeting Tonight at Microsoft TwinCitiesITandDevEvents, January 1, 0001 Topic: VSTS Build Deployment with TFS Deployer Date / Time: Wednesday, June 18th @ 5pm Where: Microsoft 8300 Norman Center Dr., Suite 950 Bloomington, MN 55437 Description: TFS Deployer is an open source ... VSTS User Group Meeting Tonight at Microsoft 0 0 0
How I Became a Software Quality Muscle Man Seminar - June 24th f... TwinCitiesITandDevEvents, January 1, 0001 Seminar Overview Yes, I'll admit it. Not long ago I was a 90 pound quality weakling. Other developers would kick sand in my face and flex their low bug counts and rock solid code, but I just couldn't get ... How I Became a Software Quality Muscle Man Seminar - June 24th f... 0 0 0
CodePlex Process Template for TFS Murray Gordon, January 1, 0001 I recently had a couple ISV's that wanted to leverage Microsoft Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) together to implement their own internal CodePlex (www.codeplex.com). ... CodePlex Process Template for TFS 0 0 0
Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2008 and Authenticated SMTP David Barrett, January 1, 0001 I needed to get TFS 2008 (both the server alerts and TFS web access) to send emails over a secure SMTP relay. "Easy", I thought. I remembered setting up SMTP username/password during the web access setup, ... Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2008 and Authenticated SMTP 0 0 5
Some Getting-Started TFS references Jamie Kurtz, January 1, 0001 General references to Visual Studio Team System http://msdn.microsoft.com/e... -> Entry point for VSTS2008 (including the different editions and TFS) http://msdn.microsoft.com/e... ... Some Getting-Started TFS references 0 0 1
Visual Studio (VS200) loosing it's source control bindings Tim Huffam, January 1, 0001 VSTS2008 has, on occasion, lost it's source control settings - specifically, the bindings to TFS server for a given solution and it's projects. This seems to be because the solution and project files are ... Visual Studio (VS200) loosing it's source control bindings 0 0 1
Small gotcha in "tf status" Team Foundation Server comm... Jamie Kurtz, January 1, 0001 Today I was trying to find out who has what checked out from a certain folder in TFS - call it $/Project/Folder. I happened to not have most of that folder downloaded yet - i.e. not in my workspace. I ... Small gotcha in "tf status" Team Foundation Server comm... 0 0 1
Count Down to the Technology Summit! Kirstin Juhl, January 1, 0001 The Magenic Technology Summit in Chicago on Friday, June 20 is just around the corner! This is a FREE event with many amazing speakers such as Jay Schmelzer, Group Program Manager on the Visual Studio ... Count Down to the Technology Summit! 0 0 0
TFS Excel integration fails with error TF80076 - after installing... Jamie Kurtz, January 1, 0001 I recently discovered that after you install the 2008 Team Explorer (here) - and you already had the 2005 Team Explorer installed - you may not able to view or edit TFS work items in Excel. Instead, you ... TFS Excel integration fails with error TF80076 - after installing... 0 0 6
Monthly Dallas VSTS User Group Meeting Jim Lavin, January 1, 0001 I just got back from attending my first Dallas VSTS User Group Meeting. Vince Blasberg gave a presentation titled "Reporting in Visual Studio Team System." He gave a great deep dive into the database architecture ... Monthly Dallas VSTS User Group Meeting 0 0 0
All About TFS - What can TFS Do For Me? Kirstin Juhl, January 1, 0001 I will be speaking about TFS at the Magenic Technology Summit in Chicago on June 20. This is a FREE event, and registration is still open! Click here to register ... All About TFS - What can TFS Do For Me? 0 0 0
Brian the build bunny Etienne Tremblay, January 1, 0001 I could not pass on this blog post and tell you about that. Go watch this and appreciate it for what it is; A great geek gadget... I WANT ONE Brian the Build Bunny You can get that bad boy here. Rock on ... Brian the build bunny 0 0 0
I created a build definition in Team Explorer, but it's grayed ou... Kirstin Juhl, January 1, 0001 In Team System when you are working in Solution Explorer and you create new or add existing files, the file is created on your local workspace and is added to Source Control when you check your changeset ... I created a build definition in Team Explorer, but it's grayed ou... 0 0 0
Adding files to TFS Team System Version Control Kirstin Juhl, January 1, 0001 In VSS you had to add the file to the VSS project explicitly. I can't count the times that the solution in VSS did not compile because someone had added new file to their solution, referenced it from existing ... Adding files to TFS Team System Version Control 0 0 0
TFS Warehouse/Cube Processing Clara Oscura, January 1, 0001 Just to clarify the different tools that you can use to update/recreate the Team Foundation Server warehouse (relational database and OLAP cube). Warehouse Web Service You can browse and invoke it here ... TFS Warehouse/Cube Processing 0 0 1
Migrating TFS2005 to TFS2008 (Process Templates) Clara Oscura, January 1, 0001 One of my main tasks now that I'm back at work is to migrate our TFS from 2005 to 2008. Our main concern is with process templates. We went to quite a lot of trouble to create our own process template ... Migrating TFS2005 to TFS2008 (Process Templates) 0 0 1
Incremental Builds in Team Foundation Server Kirstin Juhl, January 1, 0001 If you have a large code base, you can optimize your build time for Integration Builds by building only the class libraries that have changed since the last build. This is done by editing the build project ... Incremental Builds in Team Foundation Server 0 0 1
Magenic Technology Summit - June 20, 2008 Chris Williams, January 1, 0001 The Magenic Technology Council (MTC) is proud to present the first annual Technology Summit in Chicago on June 20, 2008. This two-track, 1 day summit is packed with great sessions and TWO keynotes from ... Magenic Technology Summit - June 20, 2008 0 0 0
TFS Event Handler Update Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: TFS Event Handler UpdateThe TFS Event Handler project on CodePlex has been updated today to take care of a number of bugs that were introduced in the last update. These have all been fixed and ... TFS Event Handler Update 0 0 0
MSBuild fails when building solutions with database projects Tim Huffam, January 1, 0001 There is a known problem with MSBuild whereby it does not cater for database project types as these project types (database projects) are not buildable. This is only an issue when specifying a solution ... MSBuild fails when building solutions with database projects 0 0 3
Magenic Technology Summit Maina Donaldson, January 1, 0001 Join my colleagues of the Magenic Technology Council (MTC) at the first annual Technology Summit in Chicago on June 20, 2008. This geeky, two-track, day-long mini-conference is packed with great sessions ... Magenic Technology Summit 0 0 0
Work Item Assignments in TFS Team System 2008 Kirstin Juhl, January 1, 0001 I spent some time playing with the security and Work Item Templates in TFS in an attempt to figure out how the "Assign To:" property works. The Work Item Template allows you to edit the Suggested Values ... Work Item Assignments in TFS Team System 2008 0 0 2
Editing Work Item Templates in Team System 2008 Kirstin Juhl, January 1, 0001 After setting up my project in TFS, I wanted to configure the system so that my work items in my project would show only specific users as "Assigned To" choices. The default is to include all users in ... Editing Work Item Templates in Team System 2008 0 0 2
TFS 2008 - Delete a Team Project and the "You are not author... David Barrett, January 1, 0001 After an oops with creating a team project in TFS 2008 with an incorrect name, I wanted to cleanup by removing the team project with the incorrect name. However, someone else created the project and every ... TFS 2008 - Delete a Team Project and the "You are not author... 0 0 3
Setting Up your TFS Project Part 1: Users and Security Kirstin Juhl, January 1, 0001 After creating your team project you need to set up the roles and users for your team members. There are three main places that you need to do this: The Visual Studio project, the project portal, and the ... Setting Up your TFS Project Part 1: Users and Security 0 0 4
Upgrading SubText to VisualStudio 2008 Team System Kirstin Juhl, January 1, 0001 I took Jeff McWherter's suggestion to play around with SubText, and have successfully gotten SubText upgraded and running in VS 2008, .NET 3.5. My environment is the "Visual Studio® Team System 2008 Team ... Upgrading SubText to VisualStudio 2008 Team System 0 0 0
Magenic Technology Summit Chris Williams, January 1, 0001 Coming Friday, June 20th in Downers Grove, IL The Magenic Technology Summit is a full day of Magenic-provided training. We have lined up an impressive array of speakers and topics in two tracks, .NET development ... Magenic Technology Summit 0 0 0
Vote for your feature Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: Vote for your featureI am currently taking votes for which features will make it into the next version of the TFS Sticky Buddy (v1.1 CTP 1), which will move towards v2.0. The current list of ... Vote for your feature 0 0 1
TFS SP1 feature list revealed! Etienne Tremblay, January 1, 0001 Brian just announce the features list that will be available in the SP1 version of TFS 2008. Wow that's an impressive list of features... Check them out here Cheers, ET Technorati Tags: TFS 2008 SP1 ... TFS SP1 feature list revealed! 0 0 0
TFS Sticky Buddy v1.0 Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: TFS Sticky Buddy v1.0This is the first full release of the TFS Sticky Buddy application written in VB.NET 9 and WPF with Visual Studio 2008 Team Suit. Read more...Follow my new blog on http://blog.hinshelwood.com ... TFS Sticky Buddy v1.0 0 0 1
End of another Sticky week... Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: End of another Sticky week...As you have probably noticed I have been soldiering on with the TFS Sticky Buddy project, and I though I would share. Read more...Follow my new blog on http://blog.hinshelwood.com ... End of another Sticky week... 0 0 0
TFS Stick Buddy v0.4.0 CTP2 released Martin Hinshelwood, January 1, 0001 *Moved to: TFS Stick Buddy v0.4.0 CTP2 releasedAll to soon and it is that time again...I have been developing, hell bent on getting a working sticky buddy online, and here it is... Download TFS Stick Buddy ... TFS Stick Buddy v0.4.0 CTP2 released 0 0 0
Team Foundation Server - Why are my users seeing all the team pro... Etienne Tremblay, January 1, 0001 I meant to blog about this for a while now but Willy just beat me to it. We had a discussion about this this morning and he did a great entry check it out Team Foundation Server - Why can all valid users ... Team Foundation Server - Why are my users seeing all the team pro... 0 0 0
TFS 2005 to 2008 upgrade: TFS Friendly name revisited Etienne Tremblay, January 1, 0001 I'll preface this by saying this works for renaming your TFS server for internal use. I have not tried this for external use. There might be some more steps to get it to work from the Internet. In the ... TFS 2005 to 2008 upgrade: TFS Friendly name revisited 0 0 3
TFS 2005 to 2008 upgrade: SharePoint v3 security changes (what yo... Etienne Tremblay, January 1, 0001 So in this post I will revisit a post I wrote a while back TFS Server Administrators (when you can't be a Windows server administrator). Is it possible to manage a TFS instance without being a windows ... TFS 2005 to 2008 upgrade: SharePoint v3 security changes (what yo... 0 0 1