Dave Bost

Installing the December CTP Release of Visual Studio Team System
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/vstsinstallguide.asp

Team System

For the downtown folks…..http://nerddinner.com/blogs/chicago/archive/2005/02/10/563.aspx

and the suburbanites…..http://nerddinner.com/blogs/chicago/archive/2005/02/22/630.aspx

Hope to see you at either of them!

Community

Sam Gentile writes of a problem he’s having with getting all of the Team Foundation pieces installed properly. I went to Sam’s blog to offer up some help, but it looks as if he has his comments turned off. Therefore, I’m writing this entry to try and communicate with Sam throughhis referral log. Kind of a convoluted way of communicating, but hopefully Sam gets the message.
Sam (and all)…. hopefully this may be good news for you or maybe it won’t, but hopefully this week (or maybe even today) MSDN will be publishing an article I wrote on a step-by-step guideto getting the Dec CTP release of Team System installed in a virtual environment. The article sets up the virtual machines as such:
Data Tier VM: Windows Server 2003 w/Active Directory and IIS (for SQL Reporting), SQL Server 2005, Team Foundation Data Tier
App Tier VM: Windows Server 2003 w/IIS, Team Foundation App Tier, Visual Studio Team Suite (optional)
Client Tier VM (optional): Windows XP or Server 2003, Visual Studio Team Suite
In the December release, you can install the client tools on the app tier or have a completely separate VM to host the client tools. In my lab environment, I have a development server (w/2GB of memory) that hosts the Data Tier and App Tier VMs.I than have the client tools installed on a separate VM on my laptop.
The question I have for you (Sam), is where is your AD installed? Is it outside of your virtual environment? I think your problem is just a matter of defining the IP addresses so that the VM’s can see one another. I’d gladly compare notes with you to get you up and running, just drop me a line. The more people we having poking around in Team System, the better feedback we can provide Microsoft which will ultimately lead to a stellar V1 product.

Team System

Microsoft has posted the beta for MSF Agile which contains the process guidance and supporting document templates that will be shipping in Visual Studio Team System.
MSF for Agile Software Development is a scenario-driven, context-based, agile software development process that utilizes many of the ideas embodied in Team System. This process incorporates proven practices developed at Microsoft around requirements, design, security, performance, and testing.


This isperfect timing for me as I just started a new project and my client needs some help in learning how to adjust their ways and move towards an Agile methodology.

Team System

No need to wait for Longhorn to get an update to Internet Explorer. BillG madethe announcement at the keynote of the RSA conference (via Scoble).IE7 looks to enter beta sometime this summer. Perhaps at TechEd? Or maybe at PDC?.

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