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TFS Configuration Survey: Follow up

Posted Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:28 AM by CRathjen
First, let me thank everyone who filled out the survey . With Brian and a few others spreading the word, we collected 100 responses very quickly. Here are some follow-up thoughts and further questions based on the received data: I apologize for the survey Read More...
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Tell us about your Team Foundation Server

Posted Monday, December 17, 2007 10:41 AM by CRathjen
I'm working on some test planning for the next release of Team Foundation Server. One area I'm focused on is testing various possible configurations of TFS. Here are a few of the configurations we regularly test: All on one box - App Tier, Data Tier, Read More...
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TFS 2008 and Enhanced Availability

Posted Wednesday, October 10, 2007 4:07 PM by CRathjen
Some of you may be familiar with the "AT Warm Standby" feature that was included with TFS 2005 (aka Whidbey). This feature is also available in TFS 2008 (aka Orcas) but with some slight changes. Our guidance to people using this feature is to install/configure Read More...
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TFS Orcas Setup

Posted Wednesday, September 26, 2007 10:24 AM by CRathjen
Setup. Setup. Setup. That's what I've been focused on for quite some time, and we're pretty excited about the improvements we've made for Orcas (aka Tfs 2008). I could barely pull myself away to play Halo 3 last night! :) TFS has some challenges in this Read More...
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Team Foundation Server and Longhorn Server Beta3 (aka Windows Server 2008 Beta 3)

Posted Friday, August 24, 2007 3:31 PM by CRathjen
I wanted to post a couple tips relating to some issues we've seen with this scenario, mostly because I did some searching of my own and there's not a lot of guidance out there (yet). Issue 1: Installing and Configuring Windows SharePoint Services on LHS Read More...
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WSS 3.0 support in TFS 2005 now 'official'

Posted Tuesday, July 24, 2007 1:03 PM by CRathjen
Jeff posted that the 'unofficial' guidance for modifying TFS2005 to use WSS 3.0 (on the AT or a remote machine) is now official. You can read his full post here . To jump straight to the goodies (note that, right now, the Tech Notes page has a little Read More...
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We have added his biological and technological distinctiveness to our own.

Posted Monday, June 04, 2007 10:18 AM by CRathjen
Becoming a full-time employee of Microsoft (or "MSFTie") is often jokingly referred to as " joining the collective " in public and even within our cybernetic halls. I mentioned awhile back that we'd gotten some additional team-members on the Setup/Admin/Ops Read More...
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What he said...

Posted Friday, June 01, 2007 12:29 PM by CRathjen
Sudhir has been blogging up a storm lately. He has a series of posts describing what we've done to improve setup for Orcas, and covers some likely "Whidbey to Orcas" migration scenarios. For example, if you have Whidbey with a local SharePoint 2 installation, Read More...
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The one where I explain where I've been for 3 months...

Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2007 12:40 PM by CRathjen
So...I haven't exactly been blogging lately. This is (mostly) a "no news is good news thing" - what have I been up to? Finishing up a feature crew that delivered an improved TFS setup experience, support for upgrading from Whidbey (VS 2005), enhanced Read More...
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TFS - Enhanced support for Windows SharePoint Services

Posted Wednesday, February 14, 2007 3:33 PM by CRathjen
We're working on improving our SharePoint integration for the Orcas release of TFS, as you may have heard/read by now. I've been pretty busy lately on the setup-, admin-, and ops-related aspects of this work, and I thought you might like to hear some Read More...
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Configuring Team Foundation Server to Use a Remote SharePoint Server

Posted Monday, December 04, 2006 11:11 AM by CRathjen
Dan Kershaw has produced (and updated) a whitepaper for folks who don't want their TFS AppTier and SharePoint servers on the same machine. Unfortunately, the doc seems to have moved since most of the links out there were created. As of right now, it's Read More...
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Silence - "No news is good news" or "Ominous"?

Posted Thursday, November 30, 2006 9:19 AM by CRathjen
I haven't been posting much lately. The reasons are very much "no news is good news", though, not an ominous silence. The AdminOps team is "heads-down", so we can get some key improvements for TFS done and polished in the timeframe we've set for ourselves. Read More...
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More on TFS Extranet Support

Posted Monday, October 30, 2006 1:29 PM by CRathjen
James recently posted more details on our ISAPI filter and how it enables access to TFS in common extranet scenarios. I'm very interested in feedback and suggestions on this feature. We want to know if it helps you, or if not, what it's lacking or what Read More...
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Accessing Team Foundation Server over the Internet

Posted Thursday, October 05, 2006 5:16 PM by CRathjen
SP1 introduces an extranet feature to Team Foundation Server. Before I link you to the details, though, please accept some cautionary notes (being professionally paranoid when it comes to software security is part of my job description). Warning the First: Read More...
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FAQ: Why does Project Creation Wizard (PCW) still say I need to be a Sharepoint Administrator after I become one?

Posted Thursday, September 21, 2006 10:05 AM by CRathjen
The short version: If you've encountered the scenario above, make sure the user running PCW is in the designated Sharepoint Administration Group, not just added to the server with the Administrator Role. The rest of the story: I'm creating this note because Read More...
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