Hi,
Can anybody confirm that there are no changes to the integration between MS Project and TF in TFS 2008? In anything I've read so far mention of some improvements in this area is lacking which I take to mean no improved functionality. Is that basically correct? Regards, Russell Oates Architecture Team IT Applications Branch Department of Employment and Workplace Relations Tel: 02 6121 3828 Mob: 0423 921 912 ________________________________ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grant Holliday Sent: Saturday, 24 November 2007 12:49 To: [email protected] Subject: [OzTFS] RE: Upgrading to TFS2008 Now expanded and blogged: http://ozgrant.com/2007/11/24/tips-for-upgrading-from-tfs2005-to-tfs2008 / <http://ozgrant.com/2007/11/24/tips-for-upgrading-from-tfs2005-to-tfs200 8/> Regards, Grant Holliday Team System MVP <https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Grant.Holliday> | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Blog: http://ozgrant.com <http://ozgrant.com/> | Mobile: +61 (0)402 414 446 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Banks Sent: Friday, 23 November 2007 8:53 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [OzTFS] RE: Upgrading to TFS2008 Thanks Grant I was definitely planning on trialling it in a test environment first :-) I was just looking for any of the "undocumented gotchas" that people may have encountered - you know; "learn from others pain" and all that. And as for backups - um, this is TFS we're talking about isn't it? ;-) P.S. Nice list of links - have you blogged that yet? - Richard. From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Grant Holliday Sent: Thursday, 22 November 2007 10:26 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OzTFS] RE: Upgrading to TFS2008 Hi Richard, I've done a few upgrades now from 2005-2008 (beta2, RC & RTM) - all have been successful. As a first step, run the TFS Best Practices Analyzer - and confirm that your existing environment is healthy. The general philosophy is: don't change accounts, environments, etc, until after you've run the upgrade. Some things to consider: * Yep - the upgrade steps are really simple. Make a database backup, Pop the DVD in, type in existing user accounts (don't change them at this point!!), hit upgrade, wait for the DB to be converted. * Wesley is right, the upgrade process doesn't upgrade an existing WSS 2.0 to WSS 3.0. You have to follow the standard WSS upgrade path. (See here for a cheatsheet: http://blogs.msdn.com/sudhir/archive/2007/05/31/upgrade-2005-with-wss2-0 -to-orcas-wss3-0.aspx) Here for prescan.exe (http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=e8a00b1f-6f45- 42cd-8e56-e62c20feb2f1&displaylang=en) * More upgrade scenarios here: http://blogs.msdn.com/sudhir/archive/2007/05/31/upgrade-vs-2005-to-orcas .aspx * The RTM bits are available, but product keys aren't. You have to install the 90-day trial, and hope you get your key within that time. If you need to, the trial can be extended with the help of a MS account rep + VSTS team. * Check-in policy compatibility between VSTS 2005/ 2008: http://blogs.msdn.com/edhintz/archive/2007/10/12/check-in-policy-compati bility-between-tfc-2005-and-2008.aspx * The power tools are only available for TFS 2005 (So if you want to use them, you have to keep Team Explorer 2005 around for now) * A CTP for VSTS Web Access for 2008 is available now (nothing wrong with it) - Final version in next week sometime (http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2007/11/20/upcoming-power-tool-rel ease-for-tfs-2008.aspx) * MSSCCI Provider + Power Tools for 2008 release: Mid December (http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2007/11/20/upcoming-power-tool-rel ease-for-tfs-2008.aspx) Occasionally I've had problems with the "Upgrading your Version Control Database" step - it will fail with: * Error 32000. TfsDb.exe upgrade returned non-zero value: 100 Which is a generic error message if anything goes wrong with TfsDb.exe. You have to go and look at the logfiles to see what the root-cause is. Every time, hitting retry has solved the problem. If it would make you feel better about it, muck about in a DEV/VPC environment that you've restored your DBs to. See: How to move from one hardware config to another (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/EN-US/library/ms404869(VS.80).aspx) Hope this helps. Regards, Grant Holliday Team System MVP <https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/profile/Grant.Holliday> | Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Blog: http://ozgrant.com <http://ozgrant.com/> | Mobile: +61 (0)402 414 446 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Richard Banks Sent: Thursday, 22 November 2007 1:55 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [OzTFS] Upgrading to TFS2008 Hi, I know it's only been out a few days, but has anyone tried upgrading an existing 2005 TSF server to 2008 yet? I'm especially curious if you've messed around with the project templates or the datawarehouse (added/removed/renamed fields, changed check in policies, etc). If you have, was the experience a positive one or are you now in a really bad place, growing ulcers and wondering why you didn't just leave well enough alone? The upgrade steps in the CHM make it look far too simple. 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