and moved again...

http://mikefourie.wordpress.com/ or just use www.freetodev.com

Moved to Live Spaces

I've moved to Live Spaces. Might be back, but for now you can find updates here: http://freetodev.spaces.live.com

Team Foundation Server – Administer users the ‘easy’ way

Install the TFS Admin tool from CodePlex:

Note: This tool (v1.0) is very slow and very buggy. Don't do too much at once.

Team Foundation Server – Edit your Process Template

This can be edited by using the Team System Process Template Editor located here.

Note: I found it better to install build PTE0.9.2263.536 as the latest build (PTE0.9.2346.34929) doesn't work in our environment. I spoke to the dev and they are working on the issue.

Team Foundation Server - SideKicks

Atrice have released version 1.1 of their free SideKicks application for TFS.

http://www.attrice.info/products.htm

It provides the following functionality as of v1.1:

"History Sidekick

History Sidekick is a tool for viewing different aspects of item (folder or file) history in Graphic User Interface. The information displayed includes item changeset history, item properties and pending changes, item branches, item merge history (merges from or merges to item), item merge candidates from different branches and item labels.

Status Sidekick

Status Sidekick is a tool for administrators and advanced users providing Graphic User Interface for viewing pending changes filtered by multiple criteria and for performing version control operations (such as Unlock or Undo) on selected changes.

Workspace Sidekick

Workspace Sidekick is a tool for administrators and advanced users providing Graphic User Interface for viewing and performing administrative changes on TFS workspaces."

Team Foundation Server - MSBuild Resources

Looking for custom MSBuild tasks? Try the Microsoft SDC library and the open source tigris project

MS SDC Tasks

Open source tasks for MSBuild


The MSBuild Task Reference can also come in handy

And don't forget the MSDN Forums. Questions are usually answered fairly swiftly

Team Foundation Server - The Good Website List

I've not found too many decent sites on Team foundation Server out there. These currently rank the highest in my books:


http://teamsystemrocks.com/ --- About the best out there bar MSDN.
http://blogs.vertigosoftware.com/ --- Occasional good article.

And don't miss out on the MSDN forums. http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=481&SiteID=1

Team Foundation Server - The Good Blog List

I've found loads of blogs on MS technologies and it surprises me how many 'official' blogs are left to die. Here are some useful blogs for Team Foundation Server / Team System that are updated frequently (for now!)

http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/ --- TFS Godfather
http://blogs.msdn.com/briankel/ --- Technical Evangelist for Team System
http://blogs.msdn.com/robcaron/ --- A Team System Nexus
http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/teamsystem/community/blogs/default.aspx --- Team System Blog Directory (LOADS OF CR*P, but the odd gem)

SQL Server 2005 - Get up to speed quickly

Try this site for SQL SERVER 2000 and SQL SERVER 2005 resources: http://www.fotia.co.uk