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Monday, October 30, 2006 9:04 AM

Moving the TFS SharePoint site to another server

Brian Harry talks about the documentation on how to move your TFS SharePoint installation to a different server. It's important to note that he calls this out as not being a trivial undertaking, so you'll want to be extremely cautious. Moving your TFS
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Thursday, October 26, 2006 11:30

A checkin policy to detect that the build is broken in a CI environment

One important aspect of Continuous Integration is getting notification that the build is broken. One common way is via a desktop notification from an application like TfsAlert that listens for events (or polls if there isn't a TFS-style event notification
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Thursday, October 26, 2006 11:10

Getting desktop notifications for TFS events

Clark Sell has created a home on CodePlex for a useful desktop notification tool called TfsAlert . TfsAlert is a .Net 3.0 smart client which monitors for user selected TFS events and will display a balloon window in the Windows TaskBar Notification Area.
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006 8:43

Visual Studio Team System Chat - Wednesday, Nov. 8th

Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual Studio Team Foundation Server, Team Editions for Architects, Developers, Database Pros, and Testers. In addition, discuss what's new in the latest Community
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Wednesday, October 25, 2006 3:43

Project Server 2003 - Team Foundation connector released

This was released today. Here's the announcement from the GotDotNet workspace . ANNOUNCING THE VISUAL STUDIO TEAM SYSTEM - PROJECT SERVER CONNECTOR! We are pleased to announce general availability of the Project Server 2003 – Visual Studio Team Foundation
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Sunday, October 22, 2006 3:35

Updated list of continuous integration tools for TFS

I've updated my post More continuous integration with Team Build to include tools released after that post was written. tags: tfs , team foundation server , team build
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Friday, October 20, 2006 9:40 AM

An Introduction to Team Foundation Server Version Control from a Visual SourceSafe User's Perspective

Steven St. Jean has just posted a great document that helps users make the move to Team Foundation Server's version control. While his goal is to help VSS users, this document will help users moving from a lot of other source control systems as well,
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Friday, October 20, 2006 8:52 AM

Team System Virtual PC image, including Team Foundation Server

Someone recently asked me whether there is a VPC image available for Team System and Team Foundation. There is one available to MSDN subscribers in the download area. It’s under Developer Tools -> Visual Studio 2005 -> English -> Visual Studio
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006 11:33

Assigning work items for failed builds

Steven St. Jean has written a nice post about how to assign to a particular person the work item that's created for a failed build. When he talks about the name for the Assigned To field, it must match the name that's displayed in work item tracking.
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006 9:14

Creating a new server from an old one: Beware of the InstanceId

Grant Holliday wrote a post called, TFS InstanceId, ServerMap.xml and havoc . In it he describes his experience with backing up a production server and restoring it to a test environment. The problem he ran into is that every server has a unique ID called
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Monday, October 16, 2006 11:01

Understanding port configuration for Team Build

Etienne Tremblay , a Microsoft MVP, put up a nice Visio diagram showing the ports used by Team Build and the direction that must be opened for each. Check it out! Team build the ins and outs So we learn stuff everyday... well I hope. Here is a bit of
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006 11:31

Team Foundation Server Knowledge Base Articles

Neno Loje , a Microsoft MVP, posted a nice list of knowledge base articles for Team Foundation . Here's the list (copied from his post). Limitations on access to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server over the Internet How to enable tracing in Visual Studio
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Tuesday, October 10, 2006 8:17 AM

Team Foundation Power Toys video on Channel 9

Brian Keller has put up a video on Channel 9 that has Erin Geaney, a developer on the TFS MS Office integration team, demonstrating the Team Foundation Power Toys that we updated recently. The original release of the power toys was nearly a year ago and
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Tuesday, October 03, 2006 8:45 AM

How to use the new Custom Controls in Work Item Forms (SP1)

Naren Datha< , a dev who works on the WIT client, has written a post on how to use the new work item tracking custom controls that are introduced in SP1 beta (he previously mentioned some ideas for custom controls ). He provides an overview, details
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