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At this time 98 people have downloaded the TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit . Ok - some of you are saying "100? What's the big deal? A picture of a rabbit with a pancake on it's head gets more downloads every hour!" And they would be right. But
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Interested in writing a migration tool targeting (or synchronizing with) Team Foundation Server version control or workitem tracking? Then check out the pre-release of the TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit on CodePlex! http://www.codeplex.com/MigrationSyncToolkit
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As Matt noted on the migration blog a working copy of the toolkit specification has been released. You can download it and leave feedback from this link: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/aa948851.aspx If you have feedback on migration scenarios
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When running the VSS to TFS converter (VSSConverter.exe) one of the most common questions I hear is how to create a UserMap.xml file for users who are no longer with the company or have had their accounts renamed. My first suggestion is that any customer
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SharePoint does not have persistent hyperlinks for all document revisions. More specifically – SharePoint has two methods for linking to documents: the canonical path and the revision paths. The canonical path is the latest copy of the document at the
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In my previous rant I made this statement (quoted out of context): Migrating WSS content to TFS? Piece of cake. Just enumerate each WSS change and replay the action in TFS. If you are doing an incremental migration then just enumerate those changes that
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If I could do it all over again I would take auto shop class in high school. I didn’t know it at the time but I really enjoy automotive technology. I have bought several text books used in automotive tech classes and read them cover to cover several times.
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As Matt has mentioned on the TFS Migration blog we’re working on a migration toolkit and, specifically, a sample converter tool to keep WSS document libraries in sync with a location in the TFS source control server. One of the most common questions I
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Every once in a while I get a message that at first baffles me but once I understand the problem it's hand-smackingly obvious. This error message was one of those. "hexadecimal value 0x07, is an invalid character" By now I’ve run into this problem a few
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I'm curious what you think. Imagine you have an installation of Generic Version Control System with 500,000 items you intend to migrate to TFS. Each item has, on average, 3 revisions of history. So you have 1.5 million revisions. And let's say that this
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There is an upcoming Team System chat on the 8th. I will be involved to field questions on version control migration and the new QueryMergesWithDetails API that became available in SP1. Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss
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Last time I mentioned that we’d look at more architectural decisions for a migration tool – specifically what type of process it should be hosted in. Some common arguments I hear for the various approaches are: 1) It should be written in a scripting language
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A quick pointer to the TFS migration blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/TFS_Migration/ I'm going to keep my thoughts on VC migration issues here but that blog is where more formal announcements regarding the future of TFS migration will be made.
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Yesterday I presented 20 questions that I think are a good starting point when designing or evaluating a version control migration product. The point is basically to get folks thinking about what should be migrated, how it should be migrated and what
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Introducing on Team Foundation Server family! We have Work Item Tracking, Team Build, Version Control and the Data Warehouse!” And the “Other System” family! With Proprietary Bug Tracking, Informal Build Process and Your Version Control System of Choice!
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