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Upgrading from RC to RTM

In my earlier post on upgradeing from Beta 3 Refresh, I noted that upgrading from the RC to RTM would hopefully not require a database upgrade. However, we have taken a change since RC that will require the databases to be upgraded. The process for upgrading

Troubleshooting Reports & the warehouse

There's a great write-up from Bryan MacFarlane on troubleshooting Team Foundation reports and the warehouse on the TF forum. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=154526&SiteID=1

Preparing to upgrade to RTM

If you're using Beta 3 Refresh, you may be wondering what you can do now to make the server upgrade to RTM as painless as possible. Here are a few things that will help. If you customize work item types, don’t create work item field reference names that

Beta 3 Web Chat on 10/28

Join the Team Foundation team in another set of online chats ! Experts from the team will be available during this chat to answer questions on Team Foundation Server's suite of source control, work item tracking, Office integration, MSF, reporting, project
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Beta 3, the SDK, PDC, and MVP Program

Wow, this blog has four months of lost ground to cover. There’s a lot to talk about, but I’ll start with the Beta 3 and surrounding events. Our team’s been buried for the past quarter trying to deliver all the great improvements in Beta 3, but with those

Beta 2 Extensibility Kit Updated

If you haven’t done so already, take a look at the VSTS Beta 2 Extensibility Kit . You’ll need to register as a VSIP developer, which is free and totally worth it because the kit contains a bunch of goodies. It has everything from Team Foundation Server

Customizing the Assigned To field on a Work Item Type

A common customization request is the need to change the list values populated in the Assigned To field on a work item. By default, this field shows all users known to TFS (members of the TFS Everyone group). What if you want to assign work items to groups

VSS Converter on VPC

Migration of VSS database is a CPU and network intensive process. Hence, the performance of VSS Converter on a VPC image is very slow. We recommend users not to evaluate VSS Converter performance on VPC. Thanks, Akash

Team Foundation Internationalization

Hi there, I’m Aldo Donetti the International Program Manager for Visual Studio Team System. Today I’d like to introduce you to a couple of aspects related to the internationalization of Team Foundation – (1) how to properly configure it at setup time

Populating Lists on Work Items from an External Source

A frequently asked question about work item type definitions is: “How do I populate the list of allowed/suggested/prohibited values from an external source?” This can be achieved by using global lists – named lists of values that can be shared by any

Web Chats on 5/11 and 5/12

Join the Team Foundation team in another set of online chats ! Experts from the team will be available during these two chats to answer questions on Team Foundation ’s suite of source control, work item tracking, Office integration, MSF, reporting, project
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Team build setup failing for beta 2 bits?

Hi Have you been trying to get Team Build working and keep getting a 'Build Machine is not reachable' error ? If yes then make sure you have installed Team Build SKU from \vstf\bb folder. Another point to note : In case you are trying to install Team
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Overview of Checkin Policy

My name is Jiange Sun and I'm a tester in Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) team. I am responsible of testing add, checkin, delete/undelete, get and permission features. With this post, I'll provide an overview of checkin policies in TFVC. The checkin
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Customizing Work Item Types

If you’ve already played with work item tracking in Visual Studio Team System, then you should be familiar with the notion of work item types. For example, there are four types (Scenario, Bug, Task, and Quality of Service Requirement) in the MSF Agile

Customizing Process Templates

As promised, I (Amy Hagstrom, VSTF Program Manager) am back this week to discuss customizing process templates. What are process templates? As mentioned last week, process templates are a type of blueprint for the Team Project Creation Wizard. They provide
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