After the second installment of our Speaker Idol format, I was asked by INETA to write an article for the January newsletter targeting other user group leaders.  It came out great.  The article describes the event format and some of our lessons learned...

On Monday the PnP team released the 2nd drop of the SharePoint 2010 Guidance.  Included is an example of a sandboxed solution, which is a good list aggregation scenario related to SOW’s (statements of work) and estimates across a number of sub-sites....

On Friday the Patterns and Practices team released the first drop of the SharePoint 2010 Guidance, http://spg.codeplex.com/Release/ProjectReleases.aspx?ReleaseId=38461 .  It includes the upgrades for service locator, config manager, and logger.  There...

I’ve compiled a list of some current (& some oldies but goodies) links to good reference spots for VS and TFS. A lot of these are well known, but if you are new to VSTS/TFS these are some you should take a look at.

Thanks,
Mike Learned

Installation

• TFS 2008 Installation Guide : http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=FF12844F-398C-4FE9-8B0D-9E84181D9923&displaylang=en
• Troubleshooting TFS Installation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd266793.aspx
• TFS 2010 Installation Guide: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=2d531219-2c39-4c69-88ef-f5ae6ac18c9f

Administration:

• TFS 2008 Admin Guide: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=585F0CE7-789E-4C00-B132-6D88C995685C&DisplayLang=en
• 2008/2010 Power Tools : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/bb980963.aspx

Database Edition:

• VS Database Edition GDR R2: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=bb3ad767-5f69-4db9-b1c9-8f55759846ed&displaylang=en

Developer:

• Team Development Guide: http://tfsguide.codeplex.com/
• TFS Branching Guidance: http://www.codeplex.com/wikipage?ProjectName=TFSBranchingGuideII&title=Home

Misc:

• Radio TFS: http://www.radiotfs.com/
• Team System Widgets: http://www.teamsystemwidgets.com/