The Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta2 and RC releases have an expiration date of June 30, 2010. You will want to upgrade to the TFS 2010 RTM release prior to this date so that you can continue running TFS. Both Beta2 and RC can be directly upgraded to...

There are two Visual Studio client connection issues you may encounter under specific scenarios after upgrading to Team Foundation Server 2010. In both these scenarios customers must have upgraded to TFS 2010 and configured the system to use the same...

TFS Upgrade Guidance With the release of Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2010 you may wonder where to start when thinking about TFS upgrade guidance. The BEST place to start is by downloading the latest TFS Installation Guide which not only includes information...

I've pulled together a short slide deck (well some consider 10 slides short) that provides an overview of Team Foundation Server 2010 Upgrade. This doesn't replace any of the official documentation and in fact be sure to download the latest Install Guide...

With the Visual Studio 2010 RTM family of products, including Team Foundation Server 2010, due to be released soon, here is some TFS upgrade guidance to help you prepare to upgrade from either Beta2 or RC to the RTM release. This is supplemental information...

Since the TFS 2010 Release Candidate (RC) is planning on coming out later this month, we wanted to provide this upgrade guide to help you prepare to upgrade from Beta2 to RC....

Team Foundation Server 2010 is a major upgrade from the previous release and Beta2 was just released on MSDN (See Brian Harry's post for more information on the Beta2 release). Among the many new and updated features in this release is a set of Configuration...

The excitement for the Windows 7 launch is building on Sept 29th Microsoft kicked off "The New Efficiency" live event from San Francisco. Check out the Virtual Event at: http://www.thenewefficiency.com/ to see the Keynote, information on Window 7, Windows...

As with any major server based upgrade, it is recommended that you test the upgrade prior to doing the production upgrade. For TFS 2010, to do this you will need to setup a separate environment that you can upgrade. We have made this easier to accomplish...

While upgrading from a previous version of Team Foundation Server is a fully supported scenario in TFS 2010 and the new Wizards are intended to make the upgrade as painless as possible, it is still extremely important to spend time planning this upgrade...

This is the first of a series of posts around the topic of Upgrading to Team Foundation server 2010 from a previous release. Team Foundation Server 2010 is a major upgrade from the previous release. Among the many new and updated features in this release...

We are in the process of testing the upgrade feature on TFS 2010, and in the next release you will be able to upgrade directly from either TFS 2005 or TFS 2008. Right now we are collecting real world customer databases to test against. Specifically, we...

This is a refresh of an original post by Suhid Hasbe and updated for TFS 2008. There are several options for disaster recover within TFS. In this post we will focu son SQL Log Shipping. Other options include Backup/Restore and SQL Clustering (mirroring...

The Visual Studio and .NET Framework evangelism team just launched a weekly channel9 show focusing on capabilities of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 cleverly titled 10-4! You can be the first to get these episodes by visiting http://channel9...

If you are looking information on if you can run SQL Server 2008 on a Hyper-V the folks in the SQL Server Customer Advisory Team ( www.sqlcat.com ) have put together a whitepaper on best practice recommendations on just this topic: http://sqlcat.com...

Jeff Beehler has written a nice post about how to address the Team System 2010 CTP expiration date.

This is a wonderful tool that Vijaye has been working on for a long time and now has been released via DevLabs. As someone that cut their “programming” teeth on versions of GW-BASIC running on TRS-80, CoCo, and the Commodore64, the simplicity of BASIC...

The TFS administration tools will output error information should a command fail. There is an environmental setting that you can set before running the command that will cause our tools to output more detailed information. Simply set the following variable...

In TFS 2005 the SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) had to be on the Application Tier and SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) had to be on the Data Tier. With TFS 2008 you can deploy these on remote servers. This is documented in the TFS Installation...

We've updated the Team Foundation Server FAQ on the following MSDN forum. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2776169&SiteID=1 .

An old friend of mine has started a site called Computation Press at http://www.computationpress.com/ . Which has some good papers on SQL tuning tips.

Several customers are wondering about upgrading their TFS Windows Sharepoint from 2.0 to 3.0 after upgrading TFS 2005 to TFS 2008. Here is a link to the steps to follow for an in-place upgrade of WSS2.0: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/950174

This is a re-post from Sudhir Hasbe's original post with some changes. Many customers have WSS3.0 farms in house and they want to use these farms with TFS. In TFS 2005 you had to use WSS2.0 on TFS machine and you could not leverage the existing farms...

Before upgrading the to the December 2007 Team Foundation Server Power Tools release, you should uninstall the previous version. You can do this through Control Panel. However, if you have uninstalled Visual Studio 2005 or upgraded to Visual Studio 2008...

Keeping SQL tuned up helps performance of TFS. Checking the fragementation levels of indexs within the SQL database is straightforward and SQL includes useful defragment commands. Here is a link to a useful best practices document on defragmentation....