The Team System group are holding a couple of their popular group chats again on Wednesday, December 5th. If you haven't been to one before it is a great opportunity to get to talk live with the very people that work on team system, give them your feedback and get your questions answered direct by the folks that made...
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[](http://www.woodwardweb.com/talks/TFS2008_Whats_New.pdf) Last night I had the pleasure of presenting to my local .NET User Group (NIMTUG) on what is new in Team Foundation Server 2008.
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I got an IM message from fellow Team System MVP Grant Holliday this morning prompting me to log-in to MSDN Subscription Downloads and see what was new - lo and behold I'm downloading VSTS 2008 as we speak ;-) I am currently getting above 220 Kb/sec download which is close to the maximum I ever get on my DSL line so...
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At this years TechEd EMEA, they were doing a pilot recording video of the speakers along-side the usual audio/visual recordings that you get on your conference DVD's a few months after the event.
Continue Reading As promised, here is the code we created during the TFS 2008 Build session at TechEd 2007 in Barcelona. The idea was that this is "Wallboard" that is designed to run on a machine in a public area of the office.
Continue Reading Thanks to everyone who came along to the talk today in Barcelona. We had a big crowd who seemed to enjoy the session. I had a few people coming up afterwards asking for a copy of the Wallboard code that we built during the session - I'm currently in the process of adding some extra comments to the code to explain some...
Continue Reading So, to stop my Beta 2 VPC image from expiring this week, I thought I'd try out an "upgrade" of one of the VSTS + TFS Beta 2 VPC images to a full copy of Windows Server Enterprise Edition with a retail key (as provided by my MSDN account, that Microsoft kindly supply me as a perk of being a Team System MVP).
Continue Reading Jeff Beehler has posted an update on the Beta 2 expiration issue. He currently see's three possible alternatives: Do nothing: if you don't need to use your VPC for more than an hour or so at at time (for instance for demos), then you can probably tolerate the behavior of the timed out OS.
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[](http://www.microsoft.com/europe/teched-developers)I'm joining my good friend Brian Randell to do a session on Team Build 2008 at TechEd Developers in Barcelona on November 8th. If you are at TechEd then please do come along - it is shaping up to be a fun talk.
Continue Reading If you are customizing a team build, then there are only two things you need to know to get you started. The rest you can (mostly) figure out from there. Your build is defined in a file called TFSBuild.proj for your particular Team Build Type. You probably figured that bit out already.
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