Team Foundation Server Team Blog

  A couple of customers have reached out recently with this question, so I wanted to elaborate how this scenario works. Here’s the scenario: “ I have an existing TFS 2005 or 2008 server with reporting enabled. I upgraded the server to TFS 2010 but...

You have installed Visual Studio 2010 and found out that the TFS Office Add-In is no longer working because you only a have Office 2003 and TFS requires Office 2007 or newer. Your company is not rolling to Office 2010 for another six months, what do you...

With the launch of Visual Studio 2010 last week I thought it would helpful to start a series of blog posts on how you can make the most out of the new MSF Agile 5.0 process template . If you’ve been following any of the beta releases you know that...

This post was written by Hayder Casey, a developer on the work item tracking team . If you have used Visual Studio 2010, you may have noticed the new “Connect to Team Project” dialog: This replaced the old DomainProjectPicker in Visual Studio 2008. The...

With the launch and release of Visual Studio 2010 we’re pleased to announce the new Visual Studio Certified Process Template Program . Visual Studio certified process templates are high quality templates created by certified partners from the Visual Studio...

I’ve had a few people ask where they can get unbound (not connected to a team project) copies of the Agile workbooks so I’ve written this quick post to show where you can download them. The unbound workbooks are stored in the process template and then...

TFS has continued to improve and add to the compatibility guidance. This blog includes links to the 2005 and 2008 forward compatibility updates as well as the forward and backward compatibility detailed scenarios. Read the rest of John Nierenberg's article...

  In my last post in this series I covered the new feature for generating reports in Microsoft Excel based on work item query. Let’s look at custom report authoring options available and a few tools next: Walkthroughs for out-of-the-box experience...

With the Visual Studio 2010 RTM family of products, including Team Foundation Server 2010, due to be released soon, here is some TFS upgrade guidance to help you prepare to upgrade from either Beta 2 or RC to the RTM release. This is supplemental information...