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Screen Gallery: Creating a Team Project in TFS 2008

Screenshots from a successful team project creation.

Published Sun, May 05 2008 6:30 PM by neno

Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, Screen Galleries, Version 2008, For IT-Administrators

What's the difference between Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 and Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007?

The answer lies in a very detailed Excel sheet: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/HA101978031033.aspx?pid=CL100636421033 (Thanks to Richard for pointing me to it)

Published Thu, Feb 02 2008 9:42 AM by neno

Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, TFS Administration, Project Portal and Team Communication

Known Work Item History Limitations for Links & Attachments

They are two major problems when looking into the history with regard to links. 1. No clue what has changed : If you remove an attachment and add a completely different one the history will indicate that there was a change (revision gets in incremented...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2008 12:30 AM by neno

Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Change Management, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005, Version 2008, Project Management with TFS, For Business Analysts, Troubleshooting, Quality Assurance (QA) with VSTS, Bugs/Issues and Hotfixes

Updated Area Import/Export Tool for TFS 2008

You can download a new version of the Area Import/Export Tool , compiled against Team Explorer 2008, here .

Published Mon, Jan 01 2008 2:11 AM by neno

Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Version 2008, Work Item Customization

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...

Published Wed, Nov 11 2007 10:07 PM by neno

Filed under: For Project Managers, Microsoft Solution Framework (MSF), Downloads, Tools and Utilities, For Decision Makers, Project Management with TFS, TFS Customization

Changing TFS email notifications to link to Team System Web Access

Thanks to this MSDN Forums post I was able to change the link included in every TFS notification e-mail to point to TSWA instead of the project portal. Here’s the full story: When using project alerts to get notified about work item changes you...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2007 4:44 PM by neno

Filed under: For Project Managers, TFS Server Administration, TFS Work Item Tracking, Tips and Tricks, Team Foundation Version Control, Version 2005, Project Management with TFS, TFS Administration, Project Portal and Team Communication, Team System Web Access (TSWA), TFS Customization, Notification and Alerts

Tool for creating links to pages on Team System Web Access

Would you like to send links to work items, team projects or source files on Team System Web Access ? For work items … you can find the answer in the offical TSWA FAQ : Q: What’s the URL to use if I want to send the link of a specific work...

Published Fri, Aug 08 2007 4:34 PM by neno

Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Work Item Tracking, Tools and Utilities, Tips and Tricks, Team Foundation Version Control, Project Management with TFS, Team System Web Access (TSWA), TFS Customization

How to remove someone else's workspace in TFS

A customer asked: “During my vacation my collegue was working on my machine and mapped the solution file to D:\Projects. Now I returned and wanted to map the solution to that folder as well, which obviously doesn’t work since it is already...

Published Thu, Aug 08 2007 5:59 PM by neno

Filed under: For Software Developers, For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, Tips and Tricks, Team Foundation Version Control, Version 2005, TFS Administration

Listing version control changes with check-in comments using TFS

You can easily query for changes on a team project or a specified version control folder underneath and display them in a list with the check-in comments. By using Team System Web Access (TSWA): Note: I’m showing this first because the dialog is...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2007 6:36 PM by neno

Filed under: For Software Developers, For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Change Management, Tips and Tricks, Team Foundation Version Control, Version 2005, For Release Managers, TFS Clients, Team Explorer, Team System Web Access (TSWA)

Enabling email functionality in Team System Web Access (TSWA)

By default, the email functionality in Team System Web Access (TSWA) is disabled and users will receive the following message when trying to use it: “Sending email is not enabled. Please contact your administrator.” To enable you need to change...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2007 6:28 PM by neno

Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005, For IT-Administrators, TFS Clients, Team System Web Access (TSWA)

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...

Published Mon, Aug 08 2007 6:10 PM by neno

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...

Published Sat, Jul 07 2007 9:21 PM by neno

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

Getting started using Custom Work Item Controls

Since Service Pack 1 [1] we have the ability to create our own controls to display field value within a work item form which gives us great flexibility. However there are two caveats with custom work item controls right now that aren’t solved: They...

Published Sat, Jul 07 2007 5:26 PM by neno

Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Extensibility, TFS Work Item Tracking, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005, TFS Customization, Work Item Customization

Undocumented attributes for controlling the Work Item form layout

Naren [1] revealed a few very interesting on hidden attributes his blog [2] which you definitely should take a look at since they let you solve some problems as the following ones: Control the height of two text boxes that were placed vertically on one...

Published Sat, Jul 07 2007 4:42 PM by neno

Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Work Item Tracking, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005, TFS Customization, Work Item Customization

How Do I: Customize TeamPlain? and How Do I: Create Custom Work Items in Team Foundation Server?

What do both topics have in common? Well, Microsoft started to publish How-Do-I-videos for various technologies and these two were the same topics covered on Visual Studio Team System. How Do I: Customize TeamPlain? In this video, Scott Golightly shows...

Published Sun, Jun 06 2007 10:48 PM by neno

Filed under: For Project Managers, TFS Extensibility, TFS Work Item Tracking, Training and Learning, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005

Communicating via Work Items or: "Description" vs. "History" fields

When working with Work Items often the questions comes up how to efficiently communicate between team members within TFS (not using e-mails) or what the difference between the Description field and the Comments field on the History tab is. Description...

Published Mon, Jun 06 2007 11:55 PM by neno

Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Work Item Tracking, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005

Validation error when saving Work Items after a user is removed from Active Directory

Problem : If you remove a user from Active Directory or the local machine (depending where you store your user accounts for TFS), all work items that were assigned to that user cannot be modified anymore , at least if you use the default MSF process templates...

Published Sat, Jun 06 2007 11:56 AM by neno

Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Extensibility, TFS Work Item Tracking, Tips and Tricks, Project Management with TFS

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...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2007 10:56 AM by neno

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

How to implement 'blocked' Work Items if you are waiting for someone else

A Work Item is blocked since you are waiting for someone else? Or maybe someone else is blocked and waiting for you to deliver something? These are always problematic situations which might result in issues not getting fixed because someone didn't know...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2007 3:24 PM by neno

Filed under: For Project Managers, TFS Work Item Tracking, Tips and Tricks

[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...

Published Wed, Jan 01 2007 3:06 PM by neno

Filed under: For Project Managers, TFS Work Item Tracking, Downloads, Tools and Utilities, Tips and Tricks

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