Here's how to update the Team Foundation Registry using Powershell and the TFS client OM. Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 don't ship with a TF equivalent to regedit.exe, so you may need to use Powershell, a .Net language, a TFS Powertool...

Below is a list of TF Registry paths we've blogged about or otherwise documented. I'll update this entry as I hear about new blog posts. The default value column refers to the value hardcoded into the product code, the one used if there is no value in...

Let's say you have an action you want to perform against nearly every collection on your TFS instance. For example, maybe you just fixed an issue with your mail server and want to force the "Team Foundation Server Event Processing" job for each collection...

Below is an example of canceling a client request using Powershell and the client OM. In this example I have a request in mind and already know which collection it's against. While this is intended to serve as example to make you more familiar with our...

In my previous blog post I described the job service, new for TFS 2010. There's an overhead in queuing a job, having the job agent acquire it, creating an instance of the associated plugin and releasing the job. To make things more efficient we delay...

Historical Background TFS 2008's Application Tier had two Windows services: Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Task Scheduler (TFSServerScheduler) Code Coverage Analysis Service (CoverAn) In TFS 2008, the TFS web application (hosted...

To start off my blog, I'm going to talk about a feature I've occasionally wished TF Version Control had, and some alternatives that you may find acceptable. From the documentation for "tf.exe get" : "If you work in a team development environment...