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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 Server 2010
• Out of the box adapter to Team Foundation Server 2008
• Out of the box adapter to Rational ClearCase
• Out of the box adapter to Rational ClearQuest
• Out of the box adapter for File system based version control migrations
• Updated documentation, guidance and case studies (readiness package)
• Updated User Interface to configure and run integrations
• Synchronization monitoring tools and reports

You can download binaries from Visual Studio Gallery here.

You can download the source code to the Integration Platform from Codeplex here.

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 the server farm
• you want to configure your deployment with settings other than the default ones used by the tool

Download at source.

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.  You can view an excerpt of the Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management availability announcement here.

You can try it today at http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9739338

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 be easily understood.

The different types of information cover:

• How does this feature work under the covers?
• How can I implement a workaround for this missing feature?
• This is a known bug and here is a fix or workaround.
• How do I troubleshoot issues I am having?

You can download it from codeplex in PDF format here.

This version of the quick reference guide is a PDF file with a total of 160 articles that are all meant to provide quick information about various aspects of performance testing with Visual Studio.

Here is a list of categories that these articles pertain to:

• How It Works
• Items new to VSTT 2010
• Configurations and Settings
• Networks, IP Spoofing, Test Startups
• Performance Counters and Data
• Performance Counter Considerations on Rigs with slow links
• Data and Results
• Errors and Known Issues
• Troubleshooting
• Extensibility
• Items not specific to the VSTS testing platform

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 - Beta” when it was in beta.

You can download the process template from the Microsoft Visual Studio Gallery.  Microsoft has also released the process guidance for the template on MSDN.

Note: This process template is only supported by Team Foundation Server 2010.

This template includes the following:

• Work Item Types
  • Sprint
  • Product Backlog Item
  • Bug
  • Task
  • Impediment
  • Test Case
• Reports
  • Release Burndown
  • Velocity
  • Sprint Burndown
  • Build Success Over Time
  • Build Summary
  • Test Case Readiness
  • Test Plan Progress
• SharePoint Project Portal

Aaron Bjork from Microsoft has a great blog post about the new process template which you should definitely make some time to read.