Team Foundation Server SP1 Beta now available

Published 13 May 08 08:59 AM | Abdelhamid Abdou 

It has been a long time since I have posted on this blog; one of the reasons for the long absence was that after releasing Team Foundation Server 2008 we have started working on the first service pack for the product. And today I am proud to say that we have a beta version of Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 available for download http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=DCB535BE-C32E-474C-9F64-282A2849ACC5&displaylang=en

Brian Harry has a post describing the new features in SP1 http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/04/28/team-foundation-server-2008-sp1.aspx

As a member of the team responsible for setup one of the main features that I would like to talk about is support for SQL Server 2008 CTP6

As you all know Team Foundation Server 2008 RTM is not compatible with SQL Server 2008 CTP6 and later mainly because there are some changes in Reporting Services & Full Text Search that will cause setup to fail or block on the initial environment check. The Challenge that we had was that we needed to deliver a fix for that in SP1 but in the same time customers are blocked from installing the product on SQL 2008 and from here came the idea of using the integrated install method to install RTM & SP1 together

The steps to perform the integrated install are easy

  1. On the server that you plan to install Application Tier on copy the RTM media (AT folder on the DVD) to a local folder say <AT RTM Folder>
  2. Extract the SP1 package to a local Folder by executing the command TFS90sp1-KB949786.exe /extract:<SP1 Folder>
  3. Run the following command to combine both RTM and SP1 to one install package: msiexec /a <AT RTM Folder>\vs_setup.msi /p <SP1 Folder>\ TFS90sp1-KB949786.msp TARGETDIR=<AT SP1 Folder>
  4. Your Integrated RTM+SP1 setup is now available in <AT SP1 Folder>. You can run setup.exe in this folder to install Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1
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# bharry's WebLog said on May 13, 2008 3:19 PM:

Sorry for being a bit late to the game...&#160; I should have posted yesterday but I've been drowning.&#160;

# James Manning's blog said on May 13, 2008 11:04 PM:

While we already have the code so SP1 final will support the RTM version of SQL Server 2008, because

# Abdelhamid's Blog said on June 12, 2008 9:48 AM:

Some Customers are trying to using Team Foundation Server SP1 Beta over the newly released SQL Server

# bharry's WebLog said on July 4, 2008 1:37 AM:

少し遅れてしまい申し訳ありません。昨日のうちに投稿するはずだったのですが、ゲームにはまってしまいまして...。既にご存知かと思いますが、2008 SP1 Beta をリリースしました。ぜひお試しいただき、フィードバックをお寄せくださいますようよろしくお願いいたします。TFS

# sergey.kovalev said on August 10, 2008 9:54 AM:

Hi, Abdelhamid!

I integrated SP1 into TFS2008, but the resulting package refused to install on SQL Server 2008 RTM.

MSSQL 2008 RTM build number is 10.0.1600.22, and SP1 requires 10.0.1300.13.

Then I modified hcpackage.xml:

action="&gt;=" version="10.0.0.0"

instead of

action="=" version="10.0.1300.13"

and removed a couple of issue sections.

But the installation wouldn't finish:

"Error 29110. Team Foundation Report Server Configuration: Team Foundation Server could not connect to the SQL Reporting Services WMI provider. Verify that SQL Reporting Services is installed and running".

Is there a walkaround?

# Abdelhamid's Blog said on August 11, 2008 2:15 PM:

Today we have released VS 2008 and TFS 2008 SP1 to Web. You can download them from Server: (Targeting

# Jason N. Gaylord's Blog said on September 24, 2008 3:11 PM:

One of the prerequisites for TFS 2008 is that it must be installed to work with SQL Server 2005 SP2 or

# ASPInsiders said on September 24, 2008 4:10 PM:

One of the prerequisites for TFS 2008 is that it must be installed to work with SQL Server 2005 SP2 or

# Readed By Wrocław NUG members said on September 24, 2008 9:32 PM:

One of the prerequisites for TFS 2008 is that it must be installed to work with SQL Server 2005 SP2 or

# Ashi said on May 28, 2009 11:54 PM:

Unable to install TFS 2008 SP1 onto a Windows 2008 SP2 with SQL 2008 SP1. any workarounds?

# SQL Server said on June 12, 2009 10:57 AM:

&#160; Para utilizar SQL 2008 con TFS 2008 debes primero aplicar el SP1 de TFS al instalador, primero

# Abdelhamid Abdou said on June 19, 2009 10:16 PM:

Please follow the instructions on this KB if you are facing problems with installing with SQL 2008 SP1

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969985

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