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Tweet Today I came to a customer for consulting and the customer told me that there is no Backups for TFS. So right away I told him this is very important and let’s create a Backup Plan for TFS. How To: Create TFS 2010 Backup Plan Problem So I’ve download TFS 2010 Power Tools, Install, Open TFS Administration Console, Click “Create Backup Plan” and Nothing happens. So I’ve started to investigate and saw some errors in TFS Event Log, of course I saw “Object reference not set to an instance of an object...
Tweet Read the full article from Brian’s Harry Download –> Team Foundation Server 2010 Power Tools Power Tools Come to Eclipse We are completely committed to ensuring that developers outside of Visual Studio have great access to TFS and that includes bringing Power Tools to these developers when appropriate. Today we made a new Power Tool download available as an Eclipse update site. 64-bit MSSCCI Support We also made the one of our most significant updates to the MSSCCI provider for TFS...
How To Add Check In Policy I know this is something that almost every one knows but some people don’t so here it is: To perform this action you need to be Administrators of Team Foundation version control. Open Team Explorer – Right click on your Team Project –> Team Project Settings – > Source Control Choose “Check-in Policy” tab and add the policies you want. Test your Check-in policy by performing check-in in source control. For additional policies download Team Foundation...
How To: Disable the Team Members Feature If you installed TFS Power Tools 2008 you will see couple of new features. One of the features called – "Team Members" that allows you to collaborate with your team even better. One of the features is integration with instant messaging that allows you to see presence, IM, video, audio, etc from inside Team Explorer. You can read more about the feature here: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/10/01/preview-of-the-next-tfs-power...
Skype Collaboration Provider for TFS New project on CodePlex - Team Foundation Server Collaboration Providers The Team Foundation Server 2008 Power Tools enable rich integration with other team members via IM and VoIP chat. Out the box the power tools integrate with Live Communicator and Windown Live Messenger (MSN). This project is for community contributed providers for other systems
October 08 TFS Power Tools Available! You can read about all the cool new stuff in this release here: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/10/01/preview-of-the-next-tfs-power-tools-release.aspx . Couple of new things, The include: tfpt searchcs - A new tfpt command that allows you to search for checkins, filtering by date, user, path, and string matches in the comment and checkin notes. It's a very handy tool if you are looking for a checkin but aren't 100% sure what you are looking...
How To: Manage Custom Controls In Team System and Web Access Here is couple of question I'm hearing from people about Custom Controls: 1. Why after I add a custom control to my work item I see an error message in the Web Access? 2. Even when I have Web Access Custom Control and Team System Custom Control I can't get them to work together, always one of them shows me an error, Why? | Answers: 1. Custom Controls for Team System and for Web Access are different! How To Write Team System Custom...
Power Tools 2008 - TFSUsers / TFSManager TFSUsers The TFSUsers tool allows administrators to fix issues with Work Item Tracking that occur when user names are changed in Active Directory. You maybe remember the Validation error when saving Work Items after a user is removed from Active Directory , So now instead of add < ALLOWEXISTINGVALUE /> inside the WorkItem Definition you may want to user TFSUsers to solve this problem. Also you can change Display Name for users. 1: TFSUsers computedelta...
Work Item Web Access If your QA team only need the ability to open new Bugs and doesn't use Team System For Tester abilities you may want to use WIWA . WIWA is a Web UI that allows using some work item tracking features even if the user doesn’t have a Client Access License (CAL). It’s based on TSWA, but provided as a separate download. WIWA simply enables 3 core “file-a-bug” scenarios stated in the TFS 2008 EULA. Without TFS CAL , Work Item Web Access (WIWA) will let you: Create new work items...
New TFS Sidekicks release available Published on: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/08/18/new-tfs-sidekicks-release-available.aspx A few weeks ago, Attrice corporation released a new version of their TFS Sidekicks tools. They fill a similar need as the Power Tools that we release and I generally hear very good things about them. There is some particularly positive buzz about their new Permissions sidekick. Here's a screenshot of it... Download Page
Using Tfpt Command Line Tool I'm doing a lot demonstrations for clients and for each client I create a new Team Project. Create new Team Project in Team System is very slow and long. Today I said Enough! I'll Create Team Project from now on from Command Line! Beside creating New Team Project there is a lot of useful commands like: Update workitem values from a file, Delete GlobalList, Destroy WIT and more.... Team Foundation Server 2008 Power Tool (tfpt.exe) is a command-line tool. To use...