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• Screen Gallery: Installing TFS Power Tools 2008

  Screenshots from a successful Power Tools installation Step 1: Installing Windows PowerShell Step 2: Installing TFS Power Tools Posted May 11 2008, 01:29 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, Downloads, Screen Galleries, Version 2008, For IT-Administrators

• FIX: An unexpected error occurred while trying to add a web part to a project portal in TFS 2005

  Due to a lot of requests about this pretty common problem. Steps you did: You browsed for a web part: You selected one and hit "Add": You got the error message: "An unexpected error occurred." This is a know issue with WSS 2.0 and... Posted Feb 20 2008, 12:42 AM by neno with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, Downloads, Version 2005, Project Management with TFS, TFS Administration, Project Portal and Team Communication, Bugs/Issues and Hotfixes, Issues and Hotfixes

• Can't find Team Foundation Server 2008 Standard Edition?

  TFS 2008 is released! Well… at least the Workgroup and Trial Editions are available. And the Standard Edition won’t be available until January (when the product keys are available as well). So the solution for now Microsoft recommends you to use the Trial... Posted Nov 22 2007, 12:21 AM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), Unreleased, TFS Server Administration, Downloads, Tips and Tricks, Version 2008, For IT-Administrators

• V-Modell XT Generator creates TFS Process Templates

  Microsoft Germany [1], The Center of Software Concepts at the Technical University of Munich [2] and Zühlke [3] released the V-Modell XT Generator [4] that creates process templates for working with the V-Modell, which is a process modell widely asked... Posted Nov 21 2007, 10:07 PM by neno with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: For Project Managers, Microsoft Solution Framework (MSF), Downloads, Tools and Utilities, For Decision Makers, Project Management with TFS, TFS Customization

• Whitepaper: Operations Guidance for Team Foundation Server

  Summary: You can manage your deployment of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server more effectively if you create your own operations plan. As you create your plan, you should understand key elements of the architecture of Team Foundation... Posted Oct 05 2007, 02:25 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, Downloads, Training and Learning, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005, For IT-Administrators, TFS Administration

• Free Add-On: Team System Web Access (TSWA) Power Tool by Microsoft

  Microsoft now offers version 2.0 of the Team System Web Access (formerly known as TeamPlain Web Access from DevBiz , which was acquired by Microsoft ) free of charge as a Power Tool with official Microsoft Customer Service support! Download it from here... Posted Aug 27 2007, 06:10 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Third-Party Solutions, Downloads, Tools and Utilities, Version 2005, Version 2008, TFS Clients, Team System Web Access (TSWA)

• Copy area and interation structure using the Area Import/Export Tool

  If you look for a way to export and import your area and/or iteration structure the Team Foundation Object Model (TFOM) is your friend. However it’s only your friend if you know where to look for. While the export works perfectly using the WorkItemStore... Posted Jul 07 2007, 09:21 PM by neno with | with 5 comment(s) Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Extensibility, TFS Server Administration, TFS Work Item Tracking, Downloads, Tools and Utilities, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005, Version 2008, Work Item Customization

• Upgrade your Team Suite 2005 with Team Edition for Database Professionals

  You have the Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite installed – containing the Architect, Developer and Tester role. If you haven’t done so you can upgrade your installation (trial or full version) free of charge with the Team Edition for Database... Posted Jun 16 2007, 12:11 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: For Software Developers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Downloads, Tips and Tricks, For Database Professionals, VSTS Database Edition, Version 2005

• Checklist: Things to have prepared *before* starting a new TFS install

  Especially if you don't have the fastest internet connection and/or are not too organized in storing your MSDN DVDs properly it's worth preparing all files and DVDs before heading towards an install of TFS: Here's the list of things you'll... Posted May 02 2007, 11:29 PM by neno with | with 3 comment(s) Filed under: TFS Server Administration, Downloads, Version 2005, For IT-Administrators

• Posters can make complex things easy to remember

  Willy-Peter Schaub [1], a fellow VSTS MVP [2], is our "king of Posters" when it comes to visualize complex things from Microsoft recommendation and best practices papers into nice and easy-to-remember posters! Microsoft Team System Branching poster [3... Posted Apr 24 2007, 05:49 PM by neno with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: TFS Change Management, Downloads, Training and Learning, Tips and Tricks, Team Foundation Version Control, For IT-Administrators, TFS Administration

• Get the free unlimited TeamPlain Web Access license

  Wow, now where TeamPlain Web Access is free for all TFS customers [1] you need to 'upgrade' your license to the unlimited license. The creators - DevBiz - describe the process (which is as easy as downloading a ZIP file and placing it to a specific directory... Posted Apr 09 2007, 11:07 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), Third-Party Solutions, TFS Server Administration, Downloads, Tools and Utilities, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005

• Download: Team Foundation Power Tool v1.2

  The Power Tools are always a must-have download. Although they are 'officially unspported' they give you funcionality upfront that is probably going to be in the next version of Visual Studio. New and added features include: Team Foundation Server Power... Posted Feb 21 2007, 10:56 AM by neno with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: For Software Developers, For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Work Item Tracking, Downloads, Tools and Utilities, Team Foundation Version Control, Version 2005

• [MS Project Integration] Open work items right inside of MS Project

  Working inside of MS Project and getting your data synchronized with TFS is a great thing. But there might be a reason why you want to access the work item details form and until now you needed to start Visual Studio 2005, invoke the Team Explorer, look... Posted Jan 31 2007, 03:06 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: For Project Managers, TFS Work Item Tracking, Downloads, Tools and Utilities, Tips and Tricks

• Download: Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite and Team Foundation Server Service Pack 1 (SP1)

  Now available for download: Service Pack 1 for Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Express Editions Service Pack 1 for Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Team Suite Service Pack 1 for Microsoft® Visual Studio® 2005 Team Foundation Server Caution : Make sure to... Posted Dec 15 2006, 02:13 PM by neno with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), Downloads, VSTS Database Edition, VSTS Architecture Edition, Version 2005, VSTS Developer Edition, VSTS Test Edition

• Available Check-In-Policies for Team Foundation Server

  Included in Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Work Items Code Analysis : Check-in policy can be used to control and improve the quality of code that is checked into the code base. Testing Policy As part of the Visual Studio SDK September 2006 (can be downloaded... Posted Dec 08 2006, 10:29 PM by neno with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Downloads, Tools and Utilities, Team Foundation Version Control, Version 2005, Project Management with TFS

• Team Edition for Database Professionals is available to MSDN Subscribers

  After one year of development , the Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals is available to download at the MSDN Subscriber Downloads . Go get it! Posted Dec 08 2006, 08:48 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: TFS Change Management, Downloads, For Database Professionals, VSTS Database Edition, Version 2005

• PowerToys for the Class Designer and Distributed System Designers now finally work with non-English versions of Visual Studio 2005

  There were a lot of requests in the past months since the PowerToys for the Visual Studio 2005 Class Designer and Distributed System Designers were released, because there were issues with localized, non-US versions of Visual Studio 2005 that these add... Posted Nov 10 2006, 08:58 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: For Software Architects, Downloads, Tools and Utilities

• Better together: Connector application brings Project Server 2003 and Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server together

  From the announcement "ANNOUNCING THE VISUAL STUDIO TEAM SYSTEM - PROJECT SERVER CONNECTOR ": "The Connector synchronizes Project, Resource and Task data between the two systems. Project Managers, Resource Managers continue to work in the EPM environment... Posted Oct 28 2006, 01:04 AM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: For Project Managers, Downloads, Tools and Utilities

• Play it safe: Microsoft releases Windows Defender for WinXP/Server 2003 free of charge for Windows customers

  Finally it's there: the first Version of Microsoft's Anti-Spyware tool called "Windows Defender" which is an integral part of Windows Vista and can now be downloaded separately for Windows XP SP2 and Windows Server 2003 SP1. Brief Description... Posted Oct 27 2006, 10:49 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: Downloads

• Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals CTP 5 Update

  This update specifically improves performance of the following scenarios: Schema import (reverse engineer) Schema diff Project reload [ Download ] [ Announcement ] Posted Sep 16 2006, 10:04 AM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: Unreleased, Downloads, For Database Professionals