The topic of reporting is not yet covered in the TFS Integration Tools readiness package, but is a fundamental puzzle piece in uni- or bi-directional synchronization scenarios. This blog post is based on the phenomenal work that Grant and team have been...

The Administering Team Foundation Server 2010 course sneaked out a few weeks ago on the new MSDL platform. The Courseware Library home page is here: https://partnerlearning.microsoft.com Administering Team Foundation Server 2010 Course: : https://partnerlearning...

We have promised complete transparency … which is why we will briefly give everyone a status update on this exciting project , followed by an update on the Lab Management , Word4TFS and CodedUI projects in subsequent posts. What’s happening...

Our External Rangers have done phenomenal work in terms of localizing some of the Rangers Guidance on Codeplex, making the content more meaningful to a diverse community. To drive our quality over quantity objectives we need your candid feedback if you...

Francisco Fagas , Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), has done it yet again and has localized the Visual Studio 2010 Quick Reference Guidance for the Spanish communities. Find the Spanish version of the http://vsarchitectureguide.codeplex.com...

The Spanish Localization of the Architecture Guide is imminent and during the process of localization we noticed a few minor glitches, which have been addressed and uploaded to http://vsarchitectureguide.codeplex.com/ today:

This blog post is a continuation from the post Why are my WIT Links not migrating? Q&A-43 and covers another scenario reported by our support engineers, where links are not migrating automatically (as expected). Generally, when migrating between...

This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See An index to all Rangers covered on this blog for more details. Who are you? I’m a long time gadget and technology guy with a strong passion around making development teams perform better...

If you need to create work item mappings for migrations between TSF Servers, you should have a look at this nifty Codeplex utility http://tfsintegrationmapper.codeplex.com/ . Start the utility, select the servers, select the team project, select the work...

See http://blogs.msdn.com/b/willy-peter_schaub/archive/tags/faq/ for a list of all FAQs (frequently asked questions). Q: What is the Rangers HOL Package all about? The HOL acronym stands for Hands-On-Lab, which can also be thought of as a guided...

When Work Item Type (WIT) links are not migrating as expected, you need to determine if you are using a narrow query (see Why you should avoid narrow queries! Q&A-32 for more information), which could result in some or all of the links getting left...

We recently noticed the following questions on the http://vstfs2010rm.codeplex.com/discussions discussion forum: This is a really interesting document you have produced with some very detailed ideas and guidance. Throughout it you mention the feature...

As I have been nudged to start tweeting by a couple of colleagues, I have finally buckled and created a twitter account ( www.twitter.com/wpschaub ). I will try and use twitter for daily Rangers thoughts, ideas and notifications, and the blog for...

It is crazy how time flies … 2010 is dusted and we are storming ahead in 2011. What were some of the highlights of 2010 for the Visual Studio ALM Rangers? Visual Studio 2010 Solutions We shipped no less than eleven Rangers solutions that...

I have been getting a number of the same questions from the community and it is probably time to start a frequently asked questions blog series. What is the genetic makeup of a Ranger? I love pictures … here is an attempt to answer this question...

For the past two weeks the days typically started at 4/5AM and finished abruptly when heads dropped on the keyboards, inadvertently clicking the sleep or shutdown button :) The reason for the firestorm is that we have major milestones diverging … which...

  In a recent testing exercise we noticed what we thought was a bug, until we investigated and drew the evidence on a whiteboard. Coffee break … “tada” … not a bug, a misunderstanding. As it is probably a common one, we thought it best to summarise...

This post is part of an ongoing series of Rangers introductions. See An index to all Rangers covered on this blog for more details. Who are you? Shawn Cicoria – Senior Consultant – Microsoft MCS What makes you tick”? Making things work – and work well...