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There are some amazing new features in their 2.0 product - it's very impressive to see how far they've come along! The work item support is great to see, especially support for things like .wiq files. Go Teamprise! http://www.woodwardweb.com/teamprise...

While there's a good chunk of overlap with the TFSAdmin project on codeplex , it looks like this tool does cover a number of things that TFSAdmin doesn't. If nothing else, it's always good to have at least 2 entries in a space to help push each other...

One of the things I've personally found the most confusing about SharePoint is that it isn't a single product. It's kind of a Windows thing (Windows SharePoint Services), but it's also kind of an Office thing (Microsoft Office SharePoint Server). Then...

Ever wonder why telnet and ftp are generally considered evil by security conscious admins? That's right, because they send passwords in cleartext . The same holds true of Basic authentication as well. Because of this, when we published guidance on how...

IMHO, while the DB Pro SKU has lots to like, one of the features I fell in love with the moment I heard about it was their data generation via regex. Why is that? Because even today, sometimes the most testing your data code gets in terms of valid/invalid...

If you've been reading this blog, you'll notice that I'm a fan of PowerShell and their integration and .NET stories. While PowerShell has great support for command-line exe's (you can do the same separation of stdout/stderr, for instance, that bash has...

Here's a nice blog post (with lots of screen shots!) detailing how to grab a stack from a crashing or hung application. Note that in the typical case we'll get a Watson report , so customers don't normally need to do this kind of manual operation for...

One of the big features in WSS 3.0 includes their support for workflows (they have a new dependency on Windows Workflow Foundation in the .NET 3.0 framework). This should help make a lot of the scenarios that people were coding in WSS 2.0 a lot simpler...

As we're working to support WSS 3.0 in our upcoming version , I've been working with WSS 3.0 a lot lately and really been impressed by some of the changes from WSS 2.0. In the following blog post, the main topic is authoring WebParts in the 3.0 version...

Since the perf bottleneck of many TFS systems will be the SQL Server instance where the databases reside, it's often times the piece you'll want to keep the closest eye on. SQL Server 2005 has some great built-in reports covering many of the usual things...

As I mentioned before, WSS 3.0 support is something we're hoping to include in our next version, so I'm glad to see these extensions that help make it an even better platform for development! Woo hoo! http://blogs.msdn.com/andrew_may/archive/2006/11/21...

I'm sure our field guys (many running TFS servers in a VM) will appreciate this advice (initially via Charles ). Keep in mind, none of this is really TFS-specific (although that's the interesting case for Charles, of course :) but more pointers is always...

Did a little script this week that updates one work item (the "feature") based on summing values in other work items (the tasks associated with that feature). It may be of limited value to others as-is, but it should serve as a useful example, as it leverages...

Announcing the RTW of WSS and Office SharePoint Server 2007 Standard and Enterprise Evaluation! http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/sharepoint/default.mspx http://www.microsoft.com/technet/windowsserver/sharepoint/download.mspx WSS 3.0 is pretty...