To prepare for the DevDiv TFS2010 upgrade we had to copy 8TB of SQL backups about 100 miles across a WAN link so that we could restore it on our test system.  The link speed was reasonably good and the latency fairly low (5ms), but when you’re dealing...

Problem The DevDiv mainline contains over 200GB of content and more than 1.8 million files. Any version control operations that had to deal with this amount of content would occasionally run into two problems: If the number of pending changes is more...

When we upgraded our internal servers to TFS2010, some of our remote users noticed that HTTP compression was used for some traffic, but not all. HTTP compression was enabled for file downloads from source control and for web access pages but we weren...

In John Socha-Leialoha's blog post on Upgrading Team Foundation Server 2008 Reports to 2010, Part I , there is a hidden gem: For the first time, writing reports against the warehouse using SQL is officially supported . As a rule of thumb, you’ll generally...

When you upgrade from Team Foundation Server 2008 to 2010, one of the things you need to check is the compatibility of the tools that people rely on and use the server with. Without careful preparation this can have a significant impact on your user's...