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TFS Check-in Validation Tool There is a new version available in CodePlex Project Description The TFS Check-in Validation Tool extends TFS Team Build 2008 by enabling buddy build queuing (pre-checkin), validating checkins using shelvesets, and build agent pooling, all from the VS 2008 IDE. Buddy Build Process Flow
Announcing TFS Performance Report Pack Grant Holliday upload TFS Performance Reports that Microsoft use. Quote” We have a responsibility to ensure that the server is performing as expected and to identify any efficiencies that can be made in the server or the tools. To do this, we have created a number of reports that we use ourselves and make available to our own users. “ The Full Article + Download Execution Time Summary Server Status - Source Control Request Queue Server Status - Top Users...
TFS 2008 - Quality Center Connector is now available The December pre-release of the TFS 2008 - Quality Center Connector is now available for download. This release is packaged as a Microsoft Installer (MSI) package and includes a Viewer (GUI), Console (command-line) and Service versions of the Quality Center Connector. In many customers I see that QA works with QC and the development works with Team System, this is a great solution for this kind of situation. Before Installing make sure you read...
Working With TFS Data Manager In the post I talked about Disaster Recovery for VSTS 2008 and now I will show how to work with TFS Data Manager. Every one can download the trial version and check for your self Download Page After downloading (9.5mb) the install is very simple. Choose the backup location, make sure you have al least 800mb , basiclly it’s like SQL backup. Select your Team System database and proper User & Password After the installation you can open TFS Data Manager, Perform Backup...
Disaster Recovery for VSTS 2008 Team System has become the kernel for many companies, We all know that we can Backing Up a Team Foundation Server database using simple maintance plan in the database, but is it enough? What is TFS Data Manager? At its core, TFS Data Manager provides Disaster Recovery for VSTS 2008, specifically Team Foundation Server. This includes backing up and restoring an entire TFS server, individual Team Projects, or Entities, such as Work Items, Reports, Source Code, Builds...