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July 2008 release of the power tools for TFS 2008 is now available

The download is available at http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=00803636-1d16-4df1-8a3d-ef1ad4f4bbab&displaylang=en . Brian recently wrote a post about the new features: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/07/08/july-08-tfs-power-tool-preview.aspx

TSWA tip: How to use the new TSWA template URL feature (initial value URL)

One of the new features we've added to TSWA for the SP1 release is the ability to create URLs that are effectively work item templates by virtue of the fact that they have the values for the work items embedded in the URL itself. Since constructing these

Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 CTP and Work Item Web Access 2008 CTP are now available

Hakan has announced the availability of the new TSWA community technology preview (CTP) in his post, What's New in TSWA 2008 SP1 . Personally, I would say this release is beta quality or better, so don't let the CTP designation scare you too much. Also

Spec available for "Codename TFS Bug Submission Portal"

Hakan Eskici , program manager for Team System Web Access, has posted the spec for a new power tool that's based on TSWA that is designed to help customers comply with the new licensing changes in TFS 2008 while getting the most out of the product. 

Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server - now in Russian

Jeff Beehler has pointed out that Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server has now been translated into Russian .  It's great to see it, and I'm sure it's the product of a lot of hard work.
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How Do I: Use the Builds Check-in Policy?

A year ago I wrote a blog post about a new check-in policy that we added in build for TFS 2008 to prevent "piling on" when the build is broken in continuous integration environment.  That post has all of the details on how it works and

Visual Studio Team System Chat: April 9

Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Team Foundation Server, Team Suite, Architecture Edition, Development Edition, Database Edition, and Test Edition. In addition, discuss what's new for these editions

Teamprise 3.0 Ships!

Martin Woodward write that Teamprise 3.0 has now been released! If you want the equivalent of Team Explorer integrated into Eclipse on any platform or need a client from Linux or Mac, you'll definitely want to check out Teamprise. Here's a quick bullet

Account used to install TFS must have read permission to Active Directory

We've seen a couple of customers run into a rare problem where the account being used to set up a new Team Foundation server does not have read access to Active Directory (this does not apply to the workgroup edition of TFS). Vasu Sankaran, developer
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MSBuild project analysis tool: BuildCop

Jelle Druyts has created an interesting tool and made it available on CodePlex . Just Released: BuildCop v1.0! It is with great pleasure that I'm finally ready to release another open source tool on CodePlex : BuildCop . BuildCop is a tool that analyzes
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TSWA: Providing multiple languages in a single installation

Ed Blankenship asked a question recently regarding having multiple languages supported by the same TSWA instance. Hakan provided the answer, and both of them blogged it. Hakan Eskici : Serving all languages of TSWA from a single server Ed Squared - Multiple

Setting up Source Server for TFS Builds

Jelle Druyts has posted a document describing how to set up source server for Team Foundation Build.  If you don't know what it is, read the MSDN magazine article that is the first link in his post. Check it out! Setting up Source Server for TFS

Team Foundation Build 2008 API documentation

The documentation for the team build 2008 object model is now available as a CHM file. Later this year, I'm told that the MSDN web site will be updated. http://download.microsoft.com/download/5/f/8/5f872c2e-4221-410b-b86e-4c3cd831b0c4/Team Foundation

HTTP 502 error when the server tries to connect to the build agent to start a build

The following came up a couple of weeks ago, and I thought it would be worth posting for anyone else who hits the same or a similar problem. When I try to do a build using TFS Build I get this error: TF215085: An error occurred while connecting to Agent
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Now available for TSWA 2008: Chinese, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish

The final set of localized versions of the Team System Web Access 2008 Power Tool is now available. Here is a list of links to all of the localized releases of TSWA. Chinese Simplified Chinese Traditional French German Italian Japanese Korean Spanish
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