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Thursday, November 27, 2008 7:06 AM

System Center 2007 Management Pack for TFS 2008 is available!

I know it's been a long time coming and we've had quite a few false starts but it is finally available. Not a week goes by that someone doesn't check with me on when they could get it so I know there's a fair number of people out there waiting for it.
Posted by bharry | 2 Comments
Wednesday, November 26, 2008 9:59 AM

VSTS 2008 Database Professional GDR Ships!

The long awaited update for VSTS 2008 Database professional is now available. You may have been following the many pre-releases (CTPs, RCs, etc). This is the final update. The biggest new feature in this update is support for SQLServer 2008 but there's
Posted by bharry | 1 Comments
Friday, November 21, 2008 8:29 AM

A new TFS add-on from Teamprise

Teamprise has released a new TFS add-on called Teamprise Remote Accelerator. It is a solution similar to the TFS proxy but is designed for single user remote scenarios. It functions exactly like a TFS proxy but can easily be run on your local client and
Posted by bharry | 2 Comments
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:49 AM

Coolest Team System Gadget

A couple of months ago, I mentioned that one of our MVPs ( Mike Azocar ) was running a "Coolest Team System Gadget" contest. He has just announced the winner of the contest: Mathew Rowan for TFS Working On , a tool to help you track the time you spend
Posted by bharry | 3 Comments
Monday, November 17, 2008 6:06 PM

Community Translations of Team System Web Access

A few months ago some of our MVPs expressed interest in creating some translations of Team System Web Access. We looked into it and concluded that enabling it would be pretty straight forward and seemed like a great way to experiment with a new way of
Posted by bharry | 4 Comments
Thursday, November 13, 2008 10:48 AM

Extending the new TFS Team Members Power Tool

The October release of the Team Foundation Power Tools includes a new feature called "Team Members" that allows you to collaborate with your team even better. One of the features is integration with instant messaging that allows you to see presence, IM,
Posted by bharry | 11 Comments
Attachment(s): CollaborationInterface.zip
Monday, November 10, 2008 8:30 AM

Common Oct '08 TFS Power Tools Questions

This post is going to be my periodically updated list of answers to questions/problems that I hear about. I'll get right to it... Last updated 12/2/08 1) Login problems with the TFS Windows Shell Extension - Right now the shell extension only supports
Posted by bharry | 27 Comments
Saturday, November 08, 2008 8:02 AM

Oct '08 TFS Power Tools are Available!

Yes, I know it's November now :( We had originally planned to release them about two weeks ago but an early release to our MVP showed us that we still had work left to do to really get it ready. You can read about all the cool new stuff in this release
Posted by bharry | 40 Comments
Friday, November 07, 2008 8:39 AM

Getting the VS 2010 CTP running on Hyper-V

I've seen people run into some issues doing this and one of the guys on our team wrote a good blog post on things you need to do. Check this out if you are trying to use the VS/VSTS/TFS 2010 CTP under hyper-V: http://blogs.msdn.com/granth/archive/2008/11/03/converting-vs2010-ctp-to-hyper-v.aspx
Posted by bharry | 3 Comments
Thursday, November 06, 2008 10:08 AM

Microsoft Development Software for the "little guy"

Something came across my desk today that really peaked my interest. There was a discussion about how expensive software can be for individuals, startups, etc. Someone forwarded a link to a new program that Microsoft is launching for startups that enables
Posted by bharry | 5 Comments
Thursday, November 06, 2008 7:37 AM

Feedback on the VSTS 2010 CTP

About a week ago now we released a new CTP build of VS/VSTS/TFS 2010 and .NET 4.0. I haven't heard much feedback yet. I'm curious what you think about it. Have you had a chance to download it? Play with it? Go through the walk-throughs? If you have, please
Posted by bharry | 34 Comments
 
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