September 2007 - Posts
Orcas Beta 2 refresh is now available for download. Please read the post by Brian that provides more information on Beta 2 refresh at http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2007/09/28/updates-to-tfs-2008-beta-2.aspx You can download the refresh bits at:
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Some of you may have read by previous post on Mirroring with TFS at http://blogs.msdn.com/sudhir/archive/2006/10/30/using-sql-mirroring-with-tfs.aspx . This post is for Orcas or VS2008 release. TFS leverages SQL Server for storing data. This allows our
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Team Foundation Server 2008 can be deployed in different configurations. In 2008 release we have made the product very flexible from deployment perspective. That means now you will have many components to think about in fail over or redundancy. In this
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TFS can be deployed in single server or dual server deployment. Dual server is when your application tier and data tier are on 2 different physical machines. Single server deployment is when everything is on same machine. My last 3 posts covered recovery
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In my last post I blogged about recovering from a crashed AT. TFS also supports a warm standby of AT. This helps you fail over to the warm standby AT when the primary AT fails. This is really great as it reduces the recovery time. You can setup a warm
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Team Foundation Server can be deployed in dual server environment with Application Tier and Data Tier on 2 different servers. In my last post I wrote about recovering from a DT crash. Now let's look at how we can recover from crash of AT machine. In case
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Team Foundation server can be setup in dual server environment with application tier running on one machine and the data tier running on different machine. We use SQL Server as our backend and we support named instances for SQL Server in VS2008. We also
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Let's start this post with good old Murphy's Law "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong". Therefore we need to figure out how we can fix things once they have gone wrong. In TFS there are few scenarios that come to mind when you think about disaster
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I feel there are few areas of TFS deployment which don't have enough guidance or documentation. We are always working on improving the documents but I want to take a stab at these areas and provide some guidance on these. Please give me feedback on other
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We have put in lot of efforts in Orcas. There were many features we thought we would not be able to achieve but we finally squeezed them in. One such feature which customers have been asking for is flexibility with how we use SQL Reporting Services. Many
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Few customers have seen failures in upgrading WSS2.0 to WSS3.0. When they run the upgrade utility the process fails after step 2. It is helpful to take a look at the log file but in many cases the upgrade has succeeded if you run the upgrade with forceupgrade
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