| Operations Guidance for Team Foundation Server
You can manage your deployment of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server more effectively if you create your own operations plan. As you create your plan, you should understand key elements of the architecture of Team Foundation Server and how your deployment topology affects operations. This white paper explains those elements in detail, so that you can avoid common problems with your deployment. | 
| Team Foundation Server 2010 Monitoring Management Pack
The Team Foundation Server 2010 Monitoring Management Pack delivers the capabilities for professional monitoring and management of Team Foundation Server 2010 infrastructure components. | 
 | TFS Planning and DR Avoidance Guide
Practical guidance for the implementation and disaster recovery planning for Team Foundation Server. |  | TFS Teams Tool | Quick Response Sample Solution
Command line utility, such as TFSSecurity.exe , to add Teams and Team members to a Team Project. |   | TFS Upgrade Guide
Upgrade scenarios and post-upgrade issues for Team Foundation Server and associated technologies. |  | |
| ALM Assessment Guide
Use the Rangers ALM Assessment to find out pragmatically where your organization stands in case of ALM Best Practices by using the assessment questions and qualitative discussions. Based on the results, make an action plan for improvements. |  | ALM Rangers Personas and Customer Types
Common definition of personas and scenarios used in Visual Studio ALM Rangers guidance |  | ALM Readiness Treasure Map
Provides a master catalogue (treasure map) of the available ALM Readiness content to guide us through the process of becoming proficient in ALM practices. Get the paper based map and sample source code from CodePlex and the application from the Store:
See ALM Readiness Treasure Map v2 – Show what we have for Sprint 10 (April) for more information on the next version. |   | Practical Kanban Guide
Offers teams that are new to Kanban and teams that are using a manual, paper-based Kanban board, guidance and tool support for Kanban in Team Foundation Server 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2012. |   
 | Practical Ruck Guide
The Visual Studio ALM Rangers Ruck process evolved and used by the geographically dispersed and virtual ALM Rangers project teams. |  | Supporting Guidance and Whitepapers
Research whitepapers and practical guidance for Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server, which have and are being created as part and in support of ALM Ranger solutions. |   | Visual Studio Quick Reference Guide
An overview of Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server in the form of compact, quick reference sheets. Users who are unfamiliar with Visual Studio get a “quick” overview of features, value and associated Rangers guidance. |  | |
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| Project Server 2007 VSTS Connector
The Visual Studio Team System Project Server 2007 Connector is designed to integrate the project management capabilities of VSTS with Project Server 2007. It's been developed by the Visual Studio Team System Rangers in response to significant customer demand for a connector solution. | 
 | SharePoint Server Custom Application Development: Document Workflow Management Project
Read about the real-world design, construction, and deployment of a custom SharePoint Server 2007 application to a mid-market enterprise customer using Team Foundation Server as an ALM platform. | 
 | TFS Integration Platform | TFS Integration Tools
The TFS Integration Platform is a project that facilitates the development of tools that integrate TFS with other systems. Also see TOC blog. |   
 | Using TFS to Develop Custom SharePoint Products and Technologies Applications
Use Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server to support SharePoint application development, and provide an integrated development environment and single source code repository for process activities, integrated progress reporting, and team role. | 
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| TFS Word Add-In
The Team Foundation Server Word Add-in allows you to import work items from a Team Foundation Server Team Project and generate professional-looking Word document from TFS Work items. |  | | TFS Reporting Guidance (coming) |  | |
| Requirements Management
The 2008 version was about general requirements management best practices and the best you can do with our current tooling to support these best practices. The 2010 is part 2 of this Ranger guidance focusing on new features of 2010 and how these features deliver better support for our RM best practices. |  | Test Release Management Guide
Guidance and tooling to support scenarios for test case and test plan release management, including reporting and base-lining: sprint to sprint, release to release, and moving a feature through the branching guidelines scenarios. |  | |
| | Device Testing (coming) |   | SQL Load Test
This tool takes a SQL Profiler trace file and generates a unit test that replays the same sequence of database calls found in the trace file. The unit test is designed to be used in a Visual Studio Load Test. The code generated is easily modifiable so that data variation can be introduced for the purpose of doing performance testing. |  | Test Release Management Guide
See above under “Requirements Management” for more information. |  | Unit Test Generator (coming)
See Unit Test Generator under the bonnet (hood) … aka vsarUnitTestFx for more information. |  | Visual Studio Coded UI Microsoft Word Add-in
Practical guidance and tooling for the Visual Studio Coded UI Microsoft Word Plug-in, which extends the Coded UI feature support to Microsoft Word documents. |   | Visual Studio Test Tooling Guide (MTM, CodedUI, Fakes)
A range of test tooling (Microsoft Test Manager, Coded UI, Fakes and IntelliTrace) practical and scenario based guidance. - Better Unit Testing with Microsoft Fakes
- Coded UI Guide
- Microsoft Test Manager Guide
- IntelliTrace
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This tool takes a WCF trace file and a WCF client proxy, or a WCF interface contract, and generates a unit test that replays the same sequence of calls found in the trace file. The code generated is easily modifiable so that data variation can be introduced for the purpose of doing performance testing. |  | |
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