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...

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 .

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...