1. Get More Bang for Your Buck
Getting the Most out of
Team Foundation Server
2. What You‟ll Learn (hopefully)
TFS can
Team
probably do
Foundation
more than you
Server is Greedy
think
More people
There are a lot
can use TFS
of TFS freebies
than you think
16. F5 is NOT a Build System
• Test Drive Team Build
• Several Build Scenarios
– Continuous
– Rolling
– Scheduled
– Ad-hoc
• Heck, build your
database, too.. (gasp!)
17. “Fire and Forget” User Licensing
Take
advantage of Expands
New in 2008 Potential TFS
Licensing Footprint
Change
NO TFS CAL Viewing/Editing
Creating work
work items
needed when: items
created by user
Slimmed Down Confines UI to
Use WIWA Web Access CAL-less model
Integrate TFS Cross-post
Partners can
with Existing tickets into TFS
help (plug, plug)
work items
Helpdesk
18. Everyone Needs a Power Tool
Windows Explorer Extension
•
Team Members
•
Check-in Policy Pack
•
Alerts Editor
•
Power Shell Extensions
•
Command Line
•
– Unshelve, rollback, treeclean
• Process Template Editor
20. What‟s in the Pipe?
• Hierarchical Work Items
• Version Control
– First class branches
– Visualize branch relationships
• Drag & Drop Merging
– Track change across branches
• History, Timeline, Annotate
• Workflow-based Build