New un-versioned repository in TFS 2012

In the last wave of updates to Team Foundation Service the product team has added a new “staging location” and we now have an un-versioned repository in TFS 2012.

Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 supports 2010 Build Servers

Did you know that Visual Studio 2012 Update 2 supports 2010 Build Servers? Being able to connect TF Build 2010 Controllers to TFS 2010 is opening up upgrade paths for customers that are currently blocked from upgrading to TFS 2012.

Batched domain migration with TFS while maintaining Identity

If you are moving from one domain to another, but you have lots of users you may do a batched domain migration with Visual Studio 2012 Team Foundation Server. Make suer that you read all of the fine print and don’t get caught with duplicate Identities and no traceability.

Migrating source code with history to TFS 2012 with Git-Tf

Its hard to migrate source code even from one Visual Studio 2012 Team Foundation Server to another, especially when you also want to have your history. We have been forced in the past to use some hokie migration tools that only really partially work. Update Anthony Borton gave me a hard time for not being […]

Standard Environments for Automated Deployment and Testing

Standard Environments in Visual Studio 2012 Team Foundation Server make it possible to have an automated deployment of your software to a development or QA environment. You can then have a bunch of automated tests run in those environments, collecting data all the while.