Team System Rocks

I clicked the Install Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 link. And I have the slow wait while a bunch of files are copied to the temp directory. I’m pretty sure the slowness is due to my VPC though.

Here is the intro window of the install:

Next, as usual, is the EULA.

Oooh, this is new. On the next screen, you have two checkboxes:

You can click the Customize button to view the detailed product features to add and delete. I stuck with the two checkboxes, and clicked the Install button. And, of course, here is what you hope to see when you are done:

Ok, so my installation of VSTS 2010 Beta 1 was successful. WooT!

Currently with Beta 1 there is no documentation to install (it is available online though).

I’ve shut down my VPC and merged the UNDO disk changes, so I now have a VSTS 2010 Beta 1 environment ready to go.

Time to start delving in…

VSTS Links – 06/03/2009

mickey_gousset — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 15:02:57 GMT

Scott on Calling MSTest from MSBuild or The Price of Not Buying TFS

Martin Kulov on Connect to TFS 2010 from VS2008

Charles Sterling on New Visual Studio 2010 Videos on Web Tooling Improvements and Downloading and Installing Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1

Shai Raiten on Bye “Camano” and Welcome to “Microsoft Test and Lab Manager”

The Visual Studio Data Blog on Improvements of the data binding experience with ADO.Net Data Services

The VSTS Quality Tools Blog on The Evolution of the UI Design of Test and Lab Manager

Sean Lumley on VSTS 2010 Feature: Enhancements for Web Test Playback UI

Ken O’Bonn on HOW TO: Link directly to TSWA (2008 or 2010 Beta 1) work items or queries

Matt Mitrik on Changing to Slot Mode in TFS 2010 Version Control

Kathryn Elliott on End-to-End Guidance When Customizing Visual Studio Team Foundation

Configuring TFS 2010 Beta 1

mickey_gousset — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:27:50 GMT

Once the installation has finished running, you’ll see the following:

Notice the checkbox “Launch Team Foundation Server Configuration Tool”. It has been documented already on the web that if you don’t run the configuration immediately after install, there are some issues with the Beta. I’m going to leave that box checked and click the Finish button.

The Team Foundation Server Configuration tool kicks off:

The Default Configuration option works for me. It is the one to use if you are deploying TFS to a single server, want Sharepoint installed and configured for you, and you want to use the default instance of SQL Server (all of which apply to me). I selected Default Configuration and clicked the Start Wizard button.

Here is the first page of the wizard:

Click the Next button, and you will be prompted to enter your service account:

Click the Next button to review your configuration. You can scroll down through the list to see how all the different elements of TFS will be configured:

Click the Next button to move on to the Readiness Checks section, which will validate that the system is ready to be configured:

Looks like my machine is ready to go. I click the Configure button, and then sit back and watch the configuration happen.

If everything goes well, you’ll see this:

The final windows of the configuration wizard gives you a link to a detailed log file about the configuration session:

Up next, configuring Team Build 2010.

VSTS Links – 2009-06-02

mickey_gousset — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 12:27:01 GMT

Martin Hinshelwood on Connecting VS2008 to any TFS2010 Project Collection

The Microsoft UK Developer Tools Team Blog on Second Video In the Series – My First Team Project

Jakob Ehn on Working with Build Definitions in TFS Team Build 2010

The VS Team System Test Blog on Links to online help for Visual Studio Team Test 2010 Beta 1

Joc on Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 – Free at last

Willy-Peter Schaub on VSTS Rangers Projects – VSTS 2010 ‘101’ Guidance, meet the role images

Brian Harry on VS 2005 support for TFS 2010

VSTS Links – 06/01/2009

mickey_gousset — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:51:15 GMT

Cameron Skinner on 10-4 Video on Beta 1 Installation and Visual Studio 2010 and DSL Toolkit SDK Beta Now Available

The SRL Team Blog on Team System 2010 and .NET Framework 4 Beta 1 MSDN Site

Jason Zander on VS2010 Tutorial: testing Tutorial (Step 2)

Mathew Aniyan on Coded UI Test in a Team Build and Coded UI Test from Microsoft Test & Lab Manager

Terry Clancy on Ekobit TeamCompanion for Outlook v2.1 released

The VSTS Quality Tools Blog on Create Actionable Bugs

Bruce Kyle on How to Download, Install, Walkthrough Visual Studio 2010 Team System, Team Foundation Server Betas

The VSTS Lab Management Team Blog on Application build, deploy and test automation in Lab Management

Martin Hinshelwood on Upgrading to TFS 2010 Beta 1 and SQL Collation

Installing TFS 2010 Beta 1

mickey_gousset — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:49:08 GMT

To start off, I downloaded the latest version of the installation guide for Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 1.

I then created a new base Virtual PC image, using Windows 2008 Standard Edition.

I copied the base machine, renamed the VHD file, and am using it for the rest of my install, so that I still have my clean Win2008 machine for other uses. I know I could have just based my new machine off the old VHD file, but disk space is cheap, so I’m not too worried about that.

Fired up the new VPC. Created the following users:

TFSSETUP – My setup user. I know i don’t have to have him, but he makes me feel safe. And yes, he will be an admin.
TFSREPORTS – Used to gather information for reports
TFSSERVICE – used to run the services for Team Foundation Server

Installed IIS 7.0, following the instructions in the installation guide for Windows Server 2008.

Installed SQL Server 2008 Enterprise Edition, following the instructions in the installation guide for Windows Server 2008.

Added the TFSREPORTS account to the Database Engine, per the instructions in the installation guide.

Verified SQL Server 2008 was installed successfully, per the instructions in the installation guide.

Ok, now with all the prereqs out of the way, I can get on to the business of installing Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 1.

Remember the good ole days of installing TFS 2005? Well, if you do, you’ll be much happier with the TFS 2010 install.

When I popped in the media, it prompted me to view the files on the DVD.

You now have the option of doing a x86 or a x64 install of TFS. That’s right, TFS 2010 supports 64-bit now.

I navigated into the x86 directory and ran the setup executable. I’m doing this install in a VPC, so I expect things to be slow, but the copying of the required resources to my temp directory seemed to take forever (around 20 minutes).

Once all the files are copied to the temp directory, the initial install screen opens:

I simply clicked the Next button. The next screen shows the EULA and what components are going to be installed:

Again, I simply clicked the Next button. The final screen allows you to select which Team Foundation Server components you want to install.

In my case, I want to install both Team Foundation Server and the Build service on this machine, so I select both of them. Click the Install button, and the install takes off.

Argh, it did make me reboot after installing the .NET Framework, but before installing TFS.

Wait though, you might ask, what about those three accounts you set up. I didn’t see you do anything with them.

That my friends, will wait for the next post. Let’s just say, just because I’m running the install, doesn’t mean I’m done with the configuration….