Have you been putting off upgrading TFS and now you’re ready to upgrade? Are you itching to take advantage of the great features in Team Foundation Server 2013 update 4? Are you excited to take advantage of the query-based chart authoring in Team Web Access? Do you want a better triage experience? Are you hoping [...]
The upgrade is surprisingly simple and quite fast. Here’s a short video showing the upgrade process. Only 5 minutes long, so it’s a short watch! It covers downloading TFS 11 Beta, running the install wizard, and upgrading a two tier TFS server. Video: Upgrading to TFS 11 Beta
Since the release of TFS 2010, many organizations have chosen to migrate their TFS 2008 deployment to TFS 2010. There is plenty of documentation describing the process of upgrading your TFS 2008 deployment and the procedure is relatively simple. What you won’t find, however, are detailed notes on the process of migrating/upgrading a TFS [...]
Every once in a while we get customers who note issues with alerts. In some cases alerts are being duplicated, items don’t show up in the alerts editor, by default you can only see alerts for yourself, etc. This makes managing alerts difficult in some cases. There’s an easy way to identify and remove unwanted [...]
The following is an excerpt from "The Tempo", Northwest Cadence's monthly newsletter. This article was written by Jeff Levinson. Compelling TFS Features to Upgrade from 2005 to 2008 The 2008 release of Team System provided several compelling features and upgrades over the 2005 release. Most of these were in the Visual Studio client editions. In [...]
Bill Gates, at the Keynote for Tech Ed 2008 Developers conference announced support for DB2 within Visual Studio Team System Database Edition in an upcoming release. The date for this was not announced but it will be shortly! Stay tuned for more on this development. Essentially what this means is that DB Pros is no [...]