May 2007 - Posts
As I mentioned earlier we now support running TFS service as network service. The primary advantage of using network service is, you don't have to worry about managing the password for the account. If you are using VS 2005 TFS running under domain account
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Orcas supports Named Instances of SQL Server. In VS 2005 we only supported default instance of SQL Server this was a major pain point for customers using SQL farms. We fixed this in Orcas and now you can use named instances of SQL. This post is about
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Please read http://blogs.msdn.com/sudhir/archive/2007/08/03/upgrade-tfs-2005-with-wss2-0-to-tfs-2008-orcas-with-existing-wss3-0-farm.aspx if you want to upgrade to existing WSS3.0 farm. This topic is very similar to the previous topic( http://blogs.msdn.com/sudhir/archive/2007/05/31/upgrade-2005-with-wss2-0-to-orcas-wss3-0.aspx
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One major scenario for most of our customers who are using Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server is moving to Orcas and leveraging the new features around WSS3.0. The upgrade path to this is very simple and straight forward. This post is focused on
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We have put in a lot of effort on getting our Upgrade experience right. It is not perfect but I think it is great. This post is first in the series of posts around upgrade. You can have so many scenarios around upgrade; I will take one scenario at a time
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After V1.0 we got a lot of feedback around SharePoint. Following are few things we heard a lot Why can't you install WSS for us? Why can't you just use my existing WSS farms? Why do I have to dedicate a WSS installation for TFS? We heard you all. We fixed
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Lot of customers wanted us to support network service as the service account for TFS. Some people said it was not secure enough and therefore we should not support it. The challenge we face is balancing between simplicity vs. security. Lot of customers
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In Orcas you can also install TFS on ports other than 8080. Again you will have to specify the port in MSIProperty.ini file. You still cannot use a port number that is already in use. We also don't try to merge sites for you. We do expect you to have
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Orcas Beta2 release of Team Foundation Server will enable support for Analysis server flexibility. Many customers want to install SQL Analysis services on a different machine than SQL Database Services. One primary reason is load balancing. We have enabled
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Feature List for Orcas New Orcas Setup: Consolidation of multiple Setup SKUs into one single Setup SKU. You don't have to worry about different setups for AT vs DT vs ATDT. Upgrade from VS 2005 TFS to Orcas . Customers can upgrade from RTM or SP1 If you
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Few days back I wrote a post about using SQL Named instances with TFS Orcas Beta 2 release. Link: http://blogs.msdn.com/sudhir/archive/2007/04/23/sql-named-instance-support.aspx . Some corporations do not want to keep SQL browser service running for security
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