Check in Policy to Force Comments in TFS
Jeff Atwood has posted a sample to allow you to implement what has got to be the single most requested check-in policy for Team System, forcing a user to comment their change. Based on some earlier posts by James Manning, Jeff’s download also contains some good example check-in policies. To be honest, if James and Jeff’s examples where included in the standard TFS install then most customers I have worked with wouldn’t need to go near implementing their own policies.
If you are writing your own check-in policies then I encourage you to keep an eye on James Manning’s blog. He frequently offers tidbits of advice above that of the official guidance.