An der Microsoft PDC (Professional Developer Conference) von letzter Woche in Los Angeles wurden viele neue Produkte und Technologien angekündigt, darunter sind Windows Azure, Windows 7, .NET Framework 4.0, Oslo und Visual Studio Team System 2010! Wer es nicht an die PDC geschafft hat, aber sich trotzdem...

After helping a few customers to install TFS SP1, I’d like to note some problems often occurring. The SP installation package has some problems in dual server configurations and throws an error while installing. To avoid this problems, I always run the command line TFSQuiesce to shutdown all activities...

eScrum is a Scrum process template with a strong web management interface. It is developed by Microsoft and was released some times after Team Foundation Server 2005 as a separate download on their website. It took some time, but now they released version 1.1 which supports TFS 2008 without doing the...

Being the first is not always the best, especially if you want to be the first on a new software release ;-). So if you already want to install the Service Pack 1 for your Team System environment, I want to give you some hints to not getting troubles. Before installing SP1 make sure you run the Hotfix...

Hi, if you don't know it already, Microsoft has released Service Pack 1 for Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2008 and also the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1 (Just a week after the release of SQL Server 2008). To get more info and links to the download page go to Brian Harry's blog post .

Currently I'm looking at the Rosario CTP's, what's new and hot. So this post will hopefully be the first of a series about small enhancements which helps you in the daily work. Work Item Queries It's now possible to group your queries in folders. In VSTS 2008, I created/changed the queries...

As I normally blog about Team System and especially Team Foundation Server, maybe the question comes up, why am I posting about Sharepoint updates? The answer is quite easy. Because with each TFS installation, you also need at least a WSS installation. I'd like to inform the TFS admins out there...

The new release (Juli) of the Team Foundation Server Power Tools has been released this night. The new features are: UI for subscribing to TFS alerts! TFS Best Practices Analyzer support for SQL-Server 2008 Support for changing user's names Some improvements of the tfpt.exe You can download it here...

Have you ever created a branch in the wrong directory and noticed it too late (after check-in)? For example, you create a branch under "$/Project/Main/" instead of "$/Project/Dev/". After you have realized your mistake, you go for a delete on the branch (checking in) and create a...

The new version of the Teamprise add-in for Eclipse has released. Teamprise Explorer enables you to connect to the Team Foundation Server from within the Eclipse IDE. You can use source control, work item tracking, project reports and Ant / CruiseControl integration. Now in version 3.0 you can also use...

This is my second post about errors which can occur while installing Team Foundation Server. If you find errors like this in your event log: Source: MSSQLSERVER Event ID: 18456 Description: Login failed for user 'NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM'. [CLIENT: <local machine>...

Creating a new Team Project within Visual Studio / Team Explorer 2005 connected with a Team Foundation Server 2008 can cause in an error: Error: TF30170: The plugin Microsoft.ProjectCreationWizard.Portal failed during task SharePointPortal from group Portal. Message: The language id specified in...

Do you want to checkin your files from the Windows Explorer (Shell Integration) like with Subversion add-ins? Some people don't want or need a Visual Studio Team Explorer, because they are none Microsoft-based developers like Oracle DBA's. But you want to use Team Foundation Server as your source...

I decided to write a short post about licensing of Team Build Server environments because I was asked several times in the past. There's a good chapter in the Team System Licensing Guide which explains it in detail. If you want to run Static Code Analysis or automated Tests you need to install Visual...

This is the first post about errors which can occur when installation TFS 2008. Event log entry information: Source: DCOM Event ID: 10016 User: domain\tfsservice Description: The application-specific permission settings do not grant Local Activation permission...

If you're checking in source files that are associated with task work items the default action is set to "Resolve". This means that the work item is closed after the check in. But often you don't have such granular work items that they can be resolved by one check-in, in bug work items...

By running Team Foundation Server setup you will be asked if you like to enable notifications and therefore you need to enter a mail gateway and a from address. Maybe you don't know this information at the moment or you're not sure if you really want to use this feature, so you don't configure...

I'm now working for a while with the Team System environment and for that installed & configured Team Foundation Server 2005 and 2008. But until recently I didn't know that there also was a Microsoft certification in this section (maybe not searched for). By the way, if your company likes...