We are proud to announce that InRelease supports Visual Studio 11 Beta as we are part of VS11 Beta launch program, organized by VSIP (Visual Studio Industry Partner). Also, in partnership with ComponentSource, Microsoft unveiled a new website today to show all the solutions that support VS11 Beta including InRelease. Check it out now! http://dev11.componentsource.com/ext... [More]

InCycle is proud to announce that Microsoft has named Kris Lankford Most Valuable Professional (MVP) in the field of Visual Studio for the first time. Microsoft annually recognizes an exclusive group of individuals worldwide who contributed to distinct technological communities. The Microsoft MVP program is a worldwide award and recognition program that strives to identify... [More]

A basic installation of TFS 11 Beta will install SQL Server 2012 RC0 Express Edition and includes a license for SQL Server RC0 Standard Edition.  TFS 11 requires SQL Server 2008 R2 or SQL Server 2012 (SQL Server 2008 is no longer supported). I received word from Microsoft today that TFS 11 will include a license of SQL Server 2012 Standard Edition (only for use w... [More]

Are you using SQL Server 2008 or 2008 R2 ENTERPRISE Edition with your TFS 2010 installation?  If so, then you might be risking your data because of a high-risk bug in SQL Server 2008 and you should patch it ASAP.  This bug only applies to ENTERPRISE Edition (not Standard Edition).  You can see which edition you have installed by running t... [More]

This post discusses what to do when upgrading an existing team project that was created with MSF CMMI V4.2 to the new MSF CMMI V5 template while wanting to use Microsoft Test Manager. First we update the team project with the new V5 items. The following post has a sample script to update existing Agile team projects. By inspecting the downloadable batch file, you can extr... [More]

When verifying the selection of lab host group for a team project collection (screen shot below), I was getting a warning: Permission verification failed for: [host group:All Hosts\XXX, host:XXX.XXX.XXXl] TF259194: Team Foundation Server could not reach host XXX.XXX.XXX. Ensure that the host is available and try again..   We followed one of the recommendation in t... [More]

Hi, A quick post to indicate that a new version of the TFS installation guide has been released. It can be downloaded at the following location

If you configure Team Foundation Server 2010 (TFS 2010) to be accessible via the Internet, you may be using Forefront Threat Management Gateway 2010 (Forefront TMG), or its previous incarnation Internet Security & Acceleration Server 2006 (ISA 2006), as your reverse proxy. If you try to run Windows Update on your reverse proxy server you may get an error 0x80072EE2. T... [More]

Hi, Here is a list of additional tools or add-ins that I use on a regular basis when working with team foundation server or some of the visual studio components. Please note that this by no means an exhaustive list. All Tools work for Visual Studio/TFS RTM and they are all free. I will update this post when there are updates or new ones become available. N... [More]

This post is to spot light  new behavior in team explorer 2010 that many existing source control/TFS administrators will appreciate. In TFS, when you want to change the permissions for a source control path (for instance a branch), you choose to remove the inherit security settings check box. Previously (in TFS 2005/2008), this blanked out all the permissions for ALL... [More]