I get this question a lot!!!

How do I reuse my Test Suites?

In MTM we have a very easy way of reusing Test Suites, just follow these steps:

Here I have created a source plan with Test Suite to copy, the Test Suite contains Requirements and Test Cases.

Step 1: Create a new Test Plan

Step 2: From the Plan tab click the small arrow button that will launch the “Copy Test Suites From Another Test Plan” window

Step 3: Choose the Test Plan from the dropdown list

Step 4: Choose the Test Suite to copy

Step 5: Click the “Copy suite into plan” button

That is all you need to do, you can now see the Test Suite copied to your new Test Plan

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I have done an upgrade from TFS 2005 to TFS 2010 and received this error message.

Searching in Google couldn’t give me a good solution to the problem, connecting the puzzle pieces finally gave me the solution.

The problem is you have two installations instances written in your Database, you will need to do the following in order to fix the problem:

Step 1: Launch the “Reporting Services Configuration Manager”

Step 2: Stop the service

Step 3: Launch the “Microsoft SQL Server Management Studio”

Step 4: Find the ReportServer database

Step 5: In Tables find dbo.Keys

Step 6: Open the table for edit

Now it is a guessing game, you will need to delete one of the rows to restart the Reporting Services using the “Reporting Services Configuration Manager” and to check if the problem was fixed.

In case you are wrong use the “Reporting Services Configuration Manager” to restore the Encryption Keys stop the service and try to delete the second row.

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A new Virtual Machine was released for evaluation purpose.

The Virtual Machine is a preconfigured Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio with all the latest releases and patches.

What’s in this release?

The version of this virtual machine which was refreshed on May 12, 2011, and includes the following software:

• Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate Service Pack 1
• Team Foundation Server 2010 Service Pack 1
• Visual Studio 2010 Feature Pack 2
• Team Foundation Server 2010 Power Tools (September 2010 Release)
• Visual Studio 2010 Productivity Power Tools (these are disabled in VS so that the screenshots of the hands-on-labs still match; you can quickly enable the Productivity Power Tools via Tools -> Extension Manager from within Visual Studio)
• Test Scribe for Microsoft Test Manager
• Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 Process Template
• All Windows Updates through April, 2011
• Minor fit-and-finish fixes based on customer feedback
• A new expiration date of November 1, 2011

This virtual machine is pre-configured with Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate and Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010. It is designed to provide an easy way to evaluate and learn the Visual Studio 2010 family of technologies. A set of hands-on-labs / demo scripts are also available and provided a guided experience through many of the new application lifecycle management capabilities of Visual Studio 2010.For more information on this release, along with instructions on how to use a download manager for more efficiently downloading the files required to use this virtual machine, please click here. This post also contains links to download this virtual machine for the virtualization platform of your choice (Hyper-V, Virtual PC 2007, or Windows Virtual PC).For more information on Visual Studio 2010 and the .NET Framework 4 visit http://www.microsoft.com/visualstudio/products/2010/default.mspx. This virtual machine does not have anti-virus software installed. It should not be connected to any network until it has anti-virus software installed. In addition, the operating system and programs installed were patched with all updates through April, 2011. This virtual machine will stop working on November 1, 2011, when the trial software expires. A new version of this virtual machine will be made available before this one expires.

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