…and it’s here . Please review the update page and the linked KBs on it for further details.

Our support team recently worked with Ben Ari from the Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) support team ( here’s his BLOG ) on a customer issue where we needed to provide client access to TFS through this gateway. Following are the steps...

Download now from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=53c27216-c4f0-48b6-9bed-fe1718a2e3b0 Brian has some more details over on his BLOG about what’s in this release.

Make the move to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 With modern features like state-of-the-art version control, integrated bug tracking and flexible build automation, Team Foundation Server 2010 ensures the delivery of quality software faster...

The Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework team recently announced an innovative “FREE” code sample request service for customers. This service is a proactive way for our developer community to obtain code samples for certain programming tasks directly from...

The Visual Studio “Help” team received significant feedback requesting a Help experience that is more familiar to what shipped in previous versions of Visual Studio. Therefore, for Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1), they have been working hard to...

Allen Clark, the topic’s author, needs your help in evaluating how well our content improvements work for you: "I've been working on streamlining some content in an effort to make it easier for you to get the information that you need. The first...

FYI – We just released a new version of Team Explorer Everywhere! You can read about it here , and download it here . We are eager to get feedback from everyone. If you use Team Explorer Everywhere then we would love it if you could give the release a...

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about the need for a HOTFIX when upgrading to TFS 2010 from 05\08 . A few days ago we re-released TFS 2010 because of this issue. To quote Brian Harry: “The severity of the issue is bad enough that we decided to re-release...

  If you are in the process of upgrading to TFS 2010 from any earlier version, please be aware of this HOTFIX: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2135068 It is a very specific HOTFIX in that it needs to be applied *after* your upgrade to 2010 is complete...

  Yesterday we posted our first version of Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0!  You can download the template from the Visual Studio Gallery here . It was designed to be used with TFS 2010 only (uses hierarchical work items, and specific link...

  Two great posts this week from Grant Holiday on the TFS 2010 warehouse. I encourage you to check them out! Administrative Report Pack for Team Foundation Server 2010 Monitoring the TFS Data Warehouse - FAQ -Trev

  Worked a case recently where the customer was upgrading to TFS 2010 (from 08). During the upgrade – the last part specifically when the new project collection was being created – we received an error with these details (taken from the log): [Info  ...

  Today my certificate expired on one of my SSL TF servers. I decided to become my own certificate authority so I went through the process of installing the certificate authority, creating a request from IIS on the TF server, etc. I put the cert...

After upgrading to TFS 2010 (from TFS 2005 or 2008) users may experience an intermittent problem where they are not able to see any projects in source control explorer, and/or getting one of the following errors: TF14601 workspace doesn’t exist ...

From Chris Cooper…   This week we had a customer attempting to setup a Team Foundation Version Control Proxy for TFS 2010. He had followed the instructions in the install guide but was receiving the following error when trying to connect from Visual...

An interesting post from Coop (Chris Cooper) this week. -- Trev     This week I was asked if there was a way to restrict users from selecting certain iteration paths. For instance, he wanted Project Administrators to have the ability to place...

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional will launch on April 12 but you can beat the rush and secure your copy today by pre-ordering at the affordable estimated retail price of $549, a saving of $250. If you use a previous version of Visual Studio or...

On occasion we here in TFS support are called upon to help a customer with their TFS subscriptions. The problems vary, but the one constant always seems to be that we (support) need to see their the TfsIntegration!tbl_subscription table. During a recent...

At the end of 2009, Microsoft acquired the Teamprise-related assets from SourceGear.  Last week we released a public beta version of the cross-platform Visual Studio Team Explorer clients, code name “Eaglestone”, which contains the TFS Plug-in for...

Wendell Phillips has been working on the TFS 2010 beta for some time now. Today he brings us this post about Team Lab. -Trevor     The setup steps necessary for Team Lab may appear to be quite complex, but they really aren’t. There are a few...

We occasionally receive cases in support where the initial impression is that a recent Microsoft update “broke” TFS.  In most cases an update is not the cause of the problem, however we are aware of  a potential  issue due to a recent update...

  Just wanted to remind everyone that on January 12, 2010, main stream support for SQL Server 2005 Service Pack 2 will end. In order to remain eligible for support, users of SQL 2005 will need to upgrade to SP3. Customers who do not upgrade will...

Coop (Chris Cooper) bring us this little tidbit from a recent support case of his…   When looking at your application event logs, you may notice the following error from time to time: Event Type:        Error Event...

Between Sep 1, 2009 and Sep 30, 2009 we published the following HOTIFX articles\files and knowledge base articles: Knowledge Base Articles 976184 - Empty groups still appear as available selections in work item fields in Microsoft Team Foundation Server...