Today we released the second update for TFS 2012 ( TFS , TFS Express ). You will find a detailed list of features in this blog post . You need to install the one that matches your installation – full or express. You do not need to uninstall TFS 2012 RTM or TFS 2012 Update 1. Installing TFS 2012.2 will...

With TFS 2012, we introduced a new feature in the web UI that makes it easy to look at the activity and job history on your TFS 2012 server (this feature was first introduced in 2012 RTM). Before the 2012 release, you would have had to look at things like tbl_Command directly in the database to get this...

One of the changes we made in TFS 2012 for Update 2 was to support TFS 2010 build agents and controllers. This provides several major benefits. The first is the obvious one of not having to upgrade your build agents and controllers when you upgrade your server to 2012. The second is that you don’t have...

Brian Keller has released a beta of the second version of his OData service. We are also working to bring it to TF Service, so stay tuned. Check out the beta and give him feedback ! OData Service for Team Foundation Server v2 Today we are releasing the beta of the OData Service for Team Foundation Server...

Yesterday’s update of Team Foundation Service requires a new build of git-tf , which is now available for download . Using a version of git-tf prior to the update will result in repeated prompts for your password but will never succeed in authenticating. Follow me on Twitter at http://twitter...

Normally when you connect to the Team Foundation Service you are presented with a web page to log in with your Microsoft Account (aka LiveID). When you log in you can choose to have it remember you and you won’t have to enter your Microsoft Account credentials again (unless you don’t log in again for...

TFS 2012 (RTM and newer) added a new tfsconfigure unattend command that supports unattended configuration of the server, build proxy, and SharePoint extensions. There’s now a new whitepaper available that explains it. While the paper is titled Unattended Installation of TFS 2012 , it’s really unattended...

Today we published a new release of the power tools for TFS 2012 Update 1 . This includes important fixes for the backup/restore power tool to be compatible with the release of TFS 2012 Update 1. We did a lot of refactoring of the server DLLs for the cloud service, http://tfs.visualstudio.com , and we...

[Update 2/1/13] A fix for the issues is now available . [Update 1/14/13] See this post for the latest on a fix with attaching collections. --- We’ve discovered an issue in TFS Update 1 that may result in errors when you try to configure a build agent or controller. You will see an error in the Build...

[Update 2/1/13] A fix for the issues is now available . [Update 1/14/13] See this post for the latest on issues with attaching a collection. As announced on Soma’s blog , Update 1 for Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012 is now available . Over at the ALM blog, you can find more details on what...

Today we have released an upgrade tool for users of VSS to upgrade to either on-premises TFS or the Team Foundation Service in the cloud! It provides a wizard-based UI for upgrading a VSS repository to TFS 2010, 2012, or the service. Compared to the old VSS conversion experience, there are quite a...

Brian mentioned this in a blog post last week, but I think it may have gotten lost in everything else that was going on. The Team Foundation Service’s build feature (i.e., build in the cloud) has the Windows Phone SDK installed on it now so that you can build you Windows Phone 8 (and 7) apps. The blocker...

This year at //build/ conference I gave a presentation on the evolution of Team Foundation Server from a box product to a service that has a box product. It’s been a fun journey, and I enjoyed telling the story of what our team has accomplished over the last couple of years. I start with the beginning...

Back in June, I wrote about the upgrade of the main Developer Division server to TFS 2012 RC. That post described both the scale of that server as well as the issues that we found in the process of upgrading it and the for the first week of running it (we found most all of the issues in the first week...

[Update 11/26/12] You can get the fix by installing Update 1 (or newer) for Visual Studio 2012: http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/eng/downloads. Some customers, after starting to use Visual Studio 2012 with their existing TFS deployment, have been receiving check-in policy errors having to do...

[UPDATE 12/13/12] The TFS 2012 Object Model Installer is now available for download . This past week we released an installer for the Team Foundation Server 2010 SP1 client object model. Up to this point the only way to get it was to install Team Explorer. For folks writing tools that access TFS,...

This past weekend we upgraded the TFS server used by the Developer Division and other teams who deliver Visual Studio 2012.  It is now running TFS 2012 RC ! Back in the beginning, the DevDiv server was our dogfood server.  Then as all of the folks shipping products in Visual Studio, there were...

Jason Prickett has been writing some great posts about the new features in Build for TFS 2012.  One of my favorites is the ability for you to add sections to the build summary page without having to write any plug-ins.  You just use the WriteCustomSummaryInformation activity in your workflow...

While many of the features in Visual Studio 2012 are available to users using TFS 2008 or 2010, there are some features that are only available when using a TFS 2012 server.  Also, the web experience in TFS 2012 has been rebuilt entirely from the ground up, and the result is a fast, fluid experience...

Team Explorer 2012 has the following keyboard shortcuts for the built-in pages.  We are adding some shortcuts within the pages for RTM. UPDATE 08/20/12 :  The last seven shortcuts were added for RTM. Shortcut Team Explorer Page Ctrl+' Search Ctrl+0,H Home Ctrl+0,P Pending Changes Ctrl+0,M My...

The other day I wrote a post with a summary of links for upgrading team project settings to turn on all of the new features, such as code review, task board, and more. There are a couple more things I want to point out that you’ll want to tweak after the upgrade. First is licensing for the...

As you’ve seen from Brian’s post and a bunch of others, Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012 RC are now available. One of the consistent pain points in upgrading from one version of TFS to the next has been in upgrading the process for a team project. With TFS 2012, we’ve taken...

Ivan Popek has been spending a lot of time lately digging into TFS 11.  He has written a series of posts on the APIs for teams in TFS 11, and he explains the burn down chart trend lines. TFS11 API: Query Teams and Team Members TFS11 API: Reading the Team Configuration – Iterations and Areas TFS11...

Jim Szubryt has written a post listing the perf counters available in all versions of TFS and calls out the new ones in TFS 11. Check it out if you are looking at the performance of your server. New Perfmon Counters With TFS 11 Beta Whether you are a small company running TFS or a large Enterprise...

Duat , a developer on Team Foundation Build, has written a blog post on how to resolve post-upgrade issues with your build workflow if your 2010 build workflow uses custom workflow activities that use the TFS client object model. Your custom assemblies need update, or else, redirecting Loading your custom...