If you’re using Visual Studio Beta 2, Brian Harry would love to hear from you. He’s most interested in your thoughts about the way it performs. Blazing fast? Crawls like a turtle? Let him know what you think. Here’s a link to his blog post. Go for it...

The latest from the Team WIT Tools blog is an excellent post about the compatibility between Team Explorer versions and Team Foundation Server versions. ( Link ) The highlight is and easy-to-grok matrix of Clients to Servers. From the post : “TFS compatibility...

Thanks to everyone who attended my database change management talk at this past weekend’s SQLSaturday! in Orlando. Having a room full of people who are engaged and asking questions makes presenting all the more fun. You can download the slide deck from...

MSDN subscribers get first dibs through MSDN Subscriber Downloads; everyone else will be able to download beginning October 21. (Aren’t you glad you subscribe to MSDN?) Beta 2 is totally awesome. Be on the lookout for additional announcements that were...

The next SQLSaturday! is going to be in Orlando on October 17 at Seminole Community College, 100 Weldon Boulevard, Sanford, FL 32773. There’s going to be a full day of great sessions . See you there! -- bliz

From Charles Sterling’s blog, a real-time chat with the TFS Setup and Admin team: The Team Foundation Server Setup and Admin team would like to help get you ready for Team Foundation Server Beta2 with a live presentation via live meeting. While the session...

Here’s a good overview video of Team System 2008, recorded by Doug Seven of Microsoft. It’s in a ZIP file, so you can download it and watch it offline. You can download the ZIP file from here: http://snowstormlife.com/files/folders/samples/entry1982.aspx

Ran across this helpful blog post by John Paul Cook as I was looking for a way to use my wireless network card with Hyper-V machines. http://sqlblog.com/blogs/john_paul_cook/archive/2008/03/23/using-wireless-with-hyper-v.aspx After creating the network...

Just a quick note to myself about security in TFS 2010… How to grant permissions to use Reporting Server: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb630430.aspx (How to: Configure a Report Server for Local Administration on Windows Vista and Windows Server...

If you do, Jesse Liberty has some excellent advice for you on his blog. It’s never too late to get started. And yes, it can be done on your own. (With some help from books, online info and people, and lots of resolve.) From his entry: And that is what...

Where should you start? I recommend the Visual Studio 2010 developer center at MSDN. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/dd582936.aspx From that page you can get to forums, additional product information, FAQs, samples, resources, etc. I particularly...

I ran into an issue a few months ago while I was trying to install the TFS Administration Tool downloaded from CodePlex, into a Windows Server 2008 image running inside VPC 2007 SP1. The issue? “Please wait while the installer finishes determining your...

If you subscribe to Brian Harry’s blog , then you already know about this. If you don’t subscribe to his blog, go do so now . I’ll wait. So what’s the big news? The installation process for TFS 2010 is going to be easy. Dirt easy. So-easy-you’ll-cry easy...