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Congratulations to the Microsoft team for recently releasing the much anticipated Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2010. My firm is embarking on several roll-outs right off the bat so I wanted to capture some of our efforts. To start, lets just provide the basics: TFS 2010 Installation Guide TFS 2010 Administration Guide Visual Studio Rangers Guidance Visual Studio 2010 and .Net 4.0 Training Kit Application Lifecycle Management Online Assessment MSF for Agile Software Development 5.0 Process Guidance Team Foundation Server Power Tools April 2010

If you experience TF255437: Access is denied while installing TFS 2010 on a remote/separate data tier, likely, the setup account is not a member of the local Administrators group on that data tier machine.

I finally found some time to get rolling on VSTS/TFS 2010 and wanted to share how I kitted out my environment. Somewhat related, fantastic overview on where to start . Started with my Windows 2008 Server VPC Installed and configured IIS 7 Downloaded and installed the SQL Server 2008 180-day Trial Configured SQL Server 2008 and SSRS, SSAS Turned off IE Enhanced Security for Administrators Under Win7 Beta1 (my host OS), I have a jerky mouse on the VPC . Unfortunately, the Change settings button under the Troubleshoot tab of my display driver is disabled under 64-bit :( Otherwise, I would enable the hardware acceleration recommendation. It's slightly better under full-screen. Downloaded and installed Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) v3.0 . Downloaded and installed TFS 2010 Beta 1 following the instructions to the letter. Downloaded and installed VSTS 2010 Beta 1 . Happy exploring and learning!

After lots of demos leveraging the TFS 2008 VirtualPC (VPC) trial instance released last April, I decided it was time to clean out the garbage and start from scratch. I realized, however, a lot had changed in those few short months. Now, this will be moot for this image on 12/31/2008 when it expires (and I hope replaced...please?) but here are the steps I followed (still a lot easier than starting from scratch): Update/upgrade Virtual PC client software to SP1 . Apply TFS 2008 SP1 Apply TSWA 2008 SP1 (uninstall TSWA 2008 first) Apply TFS Power Tools October 2008 (uninstall Dec 2007 first) Apply any custom process templates: Scrum for Team System 2.2 Install the latest FxCop (v1.36) to %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 9.0\Team Tools\Static Analysis Tools\FxCop

Attempting to install SQL Server 2008 Express recently, I kept receiving "...must install Microsoft .Net Framework 2.0 SP2". Huh? There was no SP2, AFAIK. Turns out there was but it's only wrapped into the .Net 3.5 SP1 redistributable . Leveraging this helpful MSDN forums post , I installed the following and successfully brought SQL Server 2008 Express up on a Win2k3 SP1 box. .Net Framework 3.5 SP1 Windows Installer 4.5 SQL Server 2008 Express Why does everything need to be so damn complicated?

Amidst all the .Net 3.5 SP1 and VSTS 2008 SP1 excitement, Team System Web Access (TSWA) got pushed aside. Not to be left behind, the TSWA team announced their SP1 recently. Installing it this morning, I encountered this error: "Another version of this product is already installed. Installation of this version cannot continue. To configure or remove the existing version of this product, use Add/Remove Programs on the Control Panel." I posted to the forums about this and it turns out one must uninstall first and then re-install. Maybe I'm the odd one out but I can't recall ever uninstalling to apply a service pack. Regardless, here are the steps I followed: 1. Note IIS settings/configuration: 2. From Add/Remove Programs, remove Visual Studio Team System Web Access. Keep all your settings: 3. Kick off the TSWA MSI installer. 4. When you encounter the existing site conflict, configure to leverage/use the existing site and application pool: 5. I chose Windows authenticati...

I've been awaiting an improved Entity Framework EDM designer tool since the CTP released in December. Well, with an Entity Framework presentation looming (May 22nd), the Redmond gods responded: VS2008 and .NET Framework SP1 BETA1 . I uninstalled all sorts of CTPs and now am the proud owner of a laptop with VS2008 and .NET 3.5 SP1 BETA1. Below find the steps I followed. Please heed the warnings and directions within the readme ( .NET 3.5 Framework SP1 BETA1 , VS2008 SP1 BETA1 ) explicitly. Also, this is BETA software...expect minor issues and don't install on production equipment. Scott Gu Braindump Brian Harry Post Uninstalled : Microsoft ASP.NET 3.5 Extensions CTP Microsoft ASP.NET Futures (July 2007) ADO.NET Entity Framework Beta3 ADO.NET Entity Framework Tools CTP Silverlight Tools Beta for Visual Studio 2008 KB949325 Did *not* uninstall : Microsoft ASP.NET MVC Preview 2 Microsoft Silverlight Installed : .NET 3.5 Framework SP1 BETA1 VS2008 SP1 BETA1 Of note: Aft...