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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

Screen Gallery: Upgrading WSS 2.0 to WSS 3.0

You updated to TFS 2008, but since the upgrade process doesn't touch your already installed WSS you are responsible for upgrading it yourself. Official Guidance: Upgrading SharePoint Products and Technologies for Team Foundation Server Step 1: Run...

Published Sun, May 05 2008 1:40 PM by neno

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

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

Published Sun, May 05 2008 1:29 PM by neno

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

Screen Gallery: Installing Team System Web Access (TSWA) 2008

Screenshots of a successful Team System Web Access (TSWA) installation. Requires: Team Explorer 2008 to be installed. Open TSWA to verify it's working:

Published Sun, May 05 2008 1:27 PM by neno

Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, Screen Galleries, Team System Web Access (TSWA)

Uninstalling TFS 2005 (services) on the app tier removes reporting services virtual directories

After uninstalling TFS 2005 (services) from a standby TFS application tier the SQL Server Reporting Services were not available, i.e. browsing http://server/reports and http://server/reportserver/ resulted in a 404 error. Workaround: Run the Reporting...

Published Wed, May 05 2008 12:19 AM by neno

Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, For Infrastructure Architects, Version 2005, TFS Reporting, Bugs/Issues and Hotfixes

TFS 2008: Team Build doesn't get subfolders of team build type folder by default

In TFS 2005 subfolders of your team build type folder were copied recursively to the build temp directory. In TFS 2008 only the contents w/o recursion is copied. To change this behavior, Aaron tells us , you need to modify the following line <add key...

Published Sun, Mar 03 2008 3:05 AM by neno

Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), Team Foundation Version Control, Version 2008, For Release Managers, Team Build Server

Team Foundation Server 2008 trial expired?

If you can't connect to your TFS anymore one reason might be that the trial expired. To find you how many days you have left of the trial and to extend the trial you need the TFS Version Detection utility . Starting 10 days before expiration you'll...

Published Mon, Mar 03 2008 12:43 PM by neno

Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration

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

Documentation: Team Foundation Server SDK (online version)

From the contents: Team Foundation Server Extensibility Team Foundation Server SDK Architecture How to: Run Team Foundation Server SDK Samples Team Foundation Core Services Work Item Tracking Extensibility Source Control Extensibility Data Warehouse Extensibility...

Published Sat, Feb 02 2008 2:55 PM by neno

Filed under: For Software Developers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Third-Party Solutions, TFS Extensibility, Training and Learning, Team Foundation Version Control, Version 2005, Version 2008, Team Build Server, TFS Administration, TFS Customization

How code churn is calculated in TFS 2005/2008

Code churn [1] in TFS 2005 and TFS 2008 is calculated using a very simple algorithm: inserted + changed + deleted lines [2]. This is done independently of the contents of the line, which means that everything - incl. comments, blank lines, etc. - is counted...

Published Sat, Feb 02 2008 2:51 PM by neno

Filed under: For Software Developers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Version 2005, Version 2008, VSTS Developer Edition, Software Quality, For Release Managers, Team Build Server, TFS Reporting, Quality Assurance (QA) with VSTS

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...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2008 12:42 AM by neno

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

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

TFS 2008 Trials: How to extend the trial?

Since Team Foundation Server 2008 was released end of November 2007 the early adopters which for some reasons have not obtained a product key yet are facing the problem of expiring trial licenses on their TFS servers. I definitely recommend to find out...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2008 7:01 PM by neno

Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), Unreleased, TFS Server Administration, Team Foundation Version Control, Version 2008, TFS Administration, Bugs/Issues and Hotfixes, 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

Licensing Changes in TFS 2008: Creating bugs is now CAL-free!

As you can read here , creating new work items and viewing the work items that you created do not require you to buy a CAL! Licensing Changes in Team Foundation Server / CAL 2008 Microsoft has made one licensing change in the Team Foundation Server CAL...

Published Fri, Nov 11 2007 3:30 AM by neno

Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), General, Version 2008, VSTS Licensing

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...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2007 12:21 AM by neno

Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), Unreleased, TFS Server Administration, Downloads, Tips and Tricks, Version 2008, For IT-Administrators

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...

Published Fri, Oct 10 2007 2:25 PM by neno

Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, Downloads, Training and Learning, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005, For IT-Administrators, TFS Administration

Method not found: 'Void Microsoft.Reporting.PreviewItemContext.SetPath()' when using Report View in TSWA

If you get the following error message above when using the Report View in Team System Web Access… … you need to install the Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2005 on your TFS App Tier (as described here ) to make it work again. How it looks when...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2007 12:46 PM by neno

Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005, Team System Web Access (TSWA), Bugs/Issues and Hotfixes, Issues and Hotfixes

Check-In is slow when using exclusive check-out?

It’s still hot: Microsoft released a fix for slow check-in’s if you’re using exclusive check-out feature yesterday: FIX: The check-in process may be very slow when you use the Source Control feature in Visual Studio 2005 Team System Read more here .

Published Thu, Sep 09 2007 9:53 PM by neno

Filed under: For Software Developers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Tips and Tricks, Team Foundation Version Control, Version 2005, Bugs/Issues and Hotfixes, Issues and Hotfixes

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

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