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Team Foundation Server (TFS) is affected by the ASP.NET Vulnerability


In case you haven’t heard a vulnerability has been posted about ASP.NET.  You can read more about it on Scott’s blog or on the Microsoft Security Advisory.      This vulnerability DOES affect numerous components of TFS and related services, including:   TFS Web Services Team Web Access TFS Proxy Sharepoint Reporting Services The document […]

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ASP.NET Security Vulnerability Could Allow Information Disclosure


Scott Gu has a great blog post discussing the workaround that must be applied to your sites.  In a nutshell the recommended workaround is to specify a single error page for all errors. NOTE: This also affects SharePoint, it is an ASP.NET application after all.  Go check out the solution over at the SharePoint Team […]

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Team Foundation Server Integration Tools (August 2010 Release)


The TFS Integration Tools is a project developed by the Team Foundation Server (TFS) product group and the Visual Studio ALM Rangers to integrate Team Foundation Server with third party systems for migration and synchronization of data. The August 2010 (official, finished) release includes the following features: Out of the box adapter to Team Foundation […]

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Team Foundation Server 2010 MOSS 2007/2010 Configuration Tool


The tool configures an existing installation of Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 or SharePoint Server 2010 for use with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010. You should not use this tool if any of the following is true: your deployment requires the use of specific ports or protocols your deployment utilizes multiple application-tier servers for […]

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Visual Studio Lab Management will “RTM” by the end of August


Lab Management will be available as an added benefit to existing or new customers who have licenses for one of the following products: Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate with MSDN, or Visual Studio Test Professional 2010 with MSDN Lab Management in Visual Studio 2010 provides an integrated development and testing platform for end-to-end virtual lab management.  […]

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Visual Studio Performance Testing Quick Reference Guide (Updated Today)


This document is a collection of items from public blog sites, Microsoft internal discussion aliases (sanitized) and experiences from various Test Consultants in the Microsoft Services Labs. The idea is to provide quick reference points around various aspects of Visual Studio performance testing features that may not be covered in core documentation, or may not […]

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Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 Process Template Released


This template was built from scratch just for Scrum teams.  Scrum is an iterative, incremental framework for project management and agile software development.  This template includes work items and reports to help your Scrum team be successful.  It has been renamed so you may have previously seen it named “Team Foundation Server Scrum v1.0 – […]

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Load Testing Toolkit (LTK) for SharePoint 2010


Load Testing Toolkit (part of the SharePoint Administration Toolkit), which generates a Visual Studio Team System 2008 load test based on Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 and Microsoft Office SharePoint Server 2007 IIS logs. The load test can be used to generate synthetic load against SharePoint Foundation 2010 or SharePoint Server 2010 as part of a […]

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Team Foundation Server 2010 and Microsoft Project Server 2010 Integration CTP (Hyper-V VM)


This CTP of Team Foundation Server 2010 and Project Server 2010 Integration allows teams to share data between the two servers. This VM includes enterprise project plans in Project Server mapped to team projects in Team Foundation Server, along with sample data to highlight key integration scenarios. The walkthrough documents provide four scenarios that simulate […]

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Migrating from Exchange 2003 to Microsoft Exchange Online


We just performed a migration for a client from Exchange 2003 (part of Windows Small Business Server 2003) to Microsoft Exchange Online.  The process was extremely easy although you have to be patient while your user’s existing mailboxes are uploaded – we moved over 10Gb using the mailbox migration tool.  You can easily migrate from […]

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