Several of my customers have been complaining the last few months that their Collection databases have increased in size with several hundred percent. I read Grant Holidays blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/b/granth/archive/2011/02/12/tfs2010-test-attachm ...[Read More]

Microsoft released the Visual Studio 2011 Beta a few weeks ago. Here are the downloads: TFS Developer Preview here: http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=27542 VS 2001 developer preview here: http://www.microsoft.com/ ...[Read More]

Crispin Parker has launched the Scrum for Team System v3 process template as an open source project on Codeplex. Read more and download it here: http://scrumforteamsystem.codeplex.com/ ...[Read More]

Microsoft released the August 2010 release of Team Foundation Power Tools. Here are my favorites this time: Work Item Search Finally an easy way to search within Team Explorer. Just type the word you want to search in the new search box and the resu ...[Read More]

The Iteration dates are not valid I recently got the following error while using the Burndown Excel tab in the MSF Agile Iteration Backlog workbook: "The Iteration dates are not valid. Switch back to the Settings tab and enter valid dates." ...[Read More]

While helping a customer to upgrade from TFS 2008 to TFS 2010 on a new hardware platform I got the following error in the log during the upgrade process: [Error] Cannot use duplicate column names in index. Column name 'AreaID' listed more than once. ...[Read More]

When you install Team Foundation Server 2010 on a single server and have an MSDN subscription (which covers TFS) you get SQL Server 2008 Standard Edition for free, if you don't use it for anything else but TFS. When SQL Server 2008 R2 arrived some t ...[Read More]

One of my customers wanted me to migrate Test Cases with steps and expected results from ReQtest to Team Foundation Server. This is how you do it: Export your Test Cases from ReQtest to Excel. Download and install Test Migrator Plus from Codeplex, ...[Read More]

There are several ways to migrate your TFS projects to a new process template, in this blog I am going to describe how to do it manually. It's not easy but might be worth a try. Download the process template you want to upgrade to disk with the proc ...[Read More]

EMC Consulting recently released a tool for migrating from SfTS v2 to v3. The process Download the tool here: http://scrumforteamsystem.com/main-news/sfts-v3-migration-tool-goes-gold  Before you begin Create a new Scrum 3.0 project that you want ...[Read More]