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1) Some additional Power Tools are available, viz the Best Practices Analyzer (which Willy was involved in too) and Work Item Templates. Find out more by checking out Brian's blog entry . Direct download is here . These tools work on TFS05. 2) The TFS Operations Guide has shipped. You can find out more here and check it out here . 3) VSTS Web Access was updated for TFS08. You can find out more here and download it from here Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick...
Option 1 Use the tf command line utility. You will run a command similar to: tf undo /workspace You can find more information here . Option 2 Check out the really cool TFS Utilities from Attrice , especially the Sidekicks one for this particular issue. If you are using TFS, you really should check out these tool. They are free! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Question: We installed TFS with using local accounts. We now need to add domain accounts into TFS and this requires that the TFS services accounts use a domain account. How can we change these accounts without a reinstall? Answer: Check out TFSAdminUtil – a command line utility. See http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms253116(VS.80).aspx for more information. Question: How do I add a user to a TFS Group from the command line? Answer: Use the tfssecurity.exe command line tool Eg: add a domain...
The guide from P&P has just been released. Visit http://www.codeplex.com/TFSGuide for the details and to download. A must have if you use, or intend to use, TFS. More than 500 pages of guidance covering source control, build management, project management etc etc. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
After shipping Orcas Beta 2 and the TFS Web Access tool, you would have thought that I have enough to play with. The TFS team obviously thought differently. Over the weekend they shipped the first public CTP of Rosario - which is the TFS version after Orcas. Check out this post by Jeff Beehler with the details. The one cool thing I will point out, which is a common request that I get when I deliver VSTS sessions, is the support for parent-child workitem relationships. You can download the VPC from...
Removed (in this order) Started approx 10:10AM (multitasking between 2 machines) Microsoft ASP.NET Futures (May 07) Silverlight Tools Alpha for Orcas Silverlight Expression Blend 3 May Preview MSDN Library for Orcas (did a full uninstall) Orcas TFS Build Orcas TFS (received note that the databases are not removed) Orcas Team Explorer Orcas Team Suite (full uninstall) Deleted all databases in SQLServer starting with TFS (did this while Team Suite was uninstalling) had to restart after removing Team...
I was waiting to blog on this, but noticed today that Brian blogged about it - so I guess it is fine for me too. For those that do not know, Brian is a distinguished engineer at Microsoft. He is also, in my words, the chief architect of Team Foundation Server (TFS). Visit his blog at http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry Brian Keller will also be coming down. We are in discussions with Ron Jacobs as well, and maybe even Scott Hanselman (although this is more of a long shot at this stage) Share this post:...
Awhile ago, Microsoft acquired TeamPlain. TeamPlain provided a web based view of TFS including work items and source control. If you know TFS it is more or less the web equivalent of Team Explorer. Earlier this week, we made available an updated version of this tool. For more information check out the Team System Web Access Page . Brian Harry's blog post is also very useful. You can download it from here . I have just downloaded it (3.2MB) and installed. It took less than 10 minutes in total...
Download from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=55a4bde6-10a7-4c41-9938-f388c1ed15e9&displaylang=en eScrum is an end-to-end Project management tool for Scrum. It is a web based tool built on the Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) platform. Its components include a web interface,and a TFS Process template. History eScrum was developed for internal use at Microsoft but due to many requests internally to make it available to customers (from consultants and...
I mentioned some of the VSTS Guidance docs to a customer and he wanted me to email them. I thought this might be useful to others as well. Guidance on TFS. Note that some of these are in beta 1) Patterns & practices Team Development with TFS Guide - http://www.codeplex.com/TFSGuide/ 2) General VSTS Guidance site - http://www.codeplex.com/VSTSGuidance 3) VSTS Branching Guidance - http://www.codeplex.com/BranchingGuidance 4) Performance Testing Guidance - http://www.codeplex.com/PerfTesting 5)...