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Wednesday, October 28, 2009 10:25 AM

Quick steps for a TFS 2010 upgrade.

One of our QA team members wrote up this quick step by step guide for doing a migration based upgrade to TFS 2010. These steps encompass some of the pre-req steps that you should follow when restoring the TFS, SharePoint and Reporting databases to a new
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Wednesday, October 21, 2009 9:52 AM

Team Foundation Server 2010 Upgrade

Team Foundation Server 2010 is a major upgrade from the previous release and Beta2 was just released on MSDN (See Brian Harry's post for more information on the Beta2 release). Among the many new and updated features in this release is a set of Configuration
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009 8:33 AM

The New Efficiency

The excitement for the Windows 7 launch is building on Sept 29th Microsoft kicked off "The New Efficiency" live event from San Francisco. Check out the Virtual Event at: http://www.thenewefficiency.com/ to see the Keynote, information on Window 7, Windows
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Thursday, May 21, 2009 11:31 AM

TFS 2010 Beta1 - Upgrade may fail with TF50363: The following display name is not valid.

If you are testing TFS 2010 Beta1 you may hit the following error during upgrade: TF50363: The following display name is not valid. This is due to a known bug in our upgrade scripts where in the Version Control db (TfsVersionControl) tbl_Identity table
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Monday, May 18, 2009 1:42 PM

Addition to TFS 2010 Installation Guide: Migrating SharePoint content in preparation for TFS2010 upgrade

As with any major server based upgrade, it is recommended that you test the upgrade prior to doing the production upgrade. For TFS 2010, to do this you will need to setup a separate environment that you can upgrade. We have made this easier to accomplish
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Tuesday, May 12, 2009 8:58 AM

Guiding Principles Around Major System Upgrades

While upgrading from a previous version of Team Foundation Server is a fully supported scenario in TFS 2010 and the new Wizards are intended to make the upgrade as painless as possible, it is still extremely important to spend time planning this upgrade
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Monday, May 11, 2009 10:37 AM

The Upgrade Experience - Team Foundation Server 2010

This is the first of a series of posts around the topic of Upgrading to Team Foundation server 2010 from a previous release. Team Foundation Server 2010 is a major upgrade from the previous release. Among the many new and updated features in this release
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Sunday, April 05, 2009 7:15 AM

Looking for TFS databases for upgrade testing

We are in the process of testing the upgrade feature on TFS 2010, and in the next release you will be able to upgrade directly from either TFS 2005 or TFS 2008. Right now we are collecting real world customer databases to test against. Specifically, we
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Tuesday, January 20, 2009 8:29 AM

Using SQL Log Shipping with TFS

This is a refresh of an original post by Suhid Hasbe and updated for TFS 2008. There are several options for disaster recover within TFS. In this post we will focu son SQL Log Shipping. Other options include Backup/Restore and SQL Clustering (mirroring).
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 6:26 PM

Announcing 10-4! Weekly Video podcasts on Visual Studio 2010

The Visual Studio and .NET Framework evangelism team just launched a weekly channel9 show focusing on capabilities of Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4.0 cleverly titled 10-4! You can be the first to get these episodes by visiting http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/10-4/
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Wednesday, December 17, 2008 1:02 PM

Running SQL Server 2008 on a Hyper-V environment

If you are looking information on if you can run SQL Server 2008 on a Hyper-V the folks in the SQL Server Customer Advisory Team ( www.sqlcat.com ) have put together a whitepaper on best practice recommendations on just this topic: http://sqlcat.com/whitepapers/archive/2008/10/03/running-sql-server-2008-in-a-hyper-v-environment-best-practices-and-performance-recommendations.aspx
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Tuesday, December 09, 2008 6:21 AM

Dealing with the Team System 2010 CTP expiration

Jeff Beehler has written a nice post about how to address the Team System 2010 CTP expiration date.
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Thursday, November 06, 2008 9:42 AM

Small Basic is live.

This is a wonderful tool that Vijaye has been working on for a long time and now has been released via DevLabs. As someone that cut their “programming” teeth on versions of GW-BASIC running on TRS-80, CoCo, and the Commodore64, the simplicity of BASIC
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Thursday, March 13, 2008 1:19 PM

Get more detailed error message information from the TFS admin tools in TFS 2008.

The TFS administration tools will output error information should a command fail. There is an environmental setting that you can set before running the command that will cause our tools to output more detailed information. Simply set the following variable:
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Saturday, March 08, 2008 7:38 PM

Deploying SQL Server Reporting Services or Analysis Services on a Remote Server in TFS2008

In TFS 2005 the SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) had to be on the Application Tier and SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) had to be on the Data Tier. With TFS 2008 you can deploy these on remote servers. This is documented in the TFS Installation
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