Running TFS from PowerShell

Get the Team Foundation Power Tools:

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=FBD14EEA-781F-45A1-8C46-9F6BA2F68BF0&displaylang=en

Don't do the Typical install, do custom and pick WssExt64bit to make sure scripting is enabled.

TFS 2010 the new beginning - Part 2

Ok, first if you can mount ISO's I think you just need the 3rd file downloaded, the one named VS2010TFS_RC1_Total3Parts.part3.rar, contains the ISO.

Got the bright idea to just try to install it local, but stopped when it required .net framework 4.0 which I am not sure is compatible with our current development environment.

Since we wanted to test the integration with other services and the new TFS we needed to install SQL server 2008 locally on the test machine. Then will need to upgrade SQL to SP1.

Switched to a 64bit 2008 server (named Gorham) which already had SQL 2008 installed.

Extracted the files from the ISO local and ran th 64 bit setup.bat. You get rewarded for your effort by seeing a cute little copying file x of y...

Then I got a You need to install windows update SP2.

So I enable updates and settle in for a nice little nap while we find out how behind this almost 2 year old server is behind.

Ok, ran update a handful of times and it finally said it couldn't find anymore tried to run setup.exe and it still says I don't have Windows Service Pack 2 installed. Off to Microsoft to get SP2.

Found out that my SQL Server was 2005 and the TFS install didn't recognize the Reporting services.

TFS 2010 the new beginning - Part 1

Ok, I know I haven't blogged in a while but this seems like a worthy event, installing TFS 2010 RC

First thing that caught my eye was the download size...

From 168 MB -> 1568 MB, thought it was a typo at first, but it depends on what options you pick.

Note: also a tool below the TFS Download page called "Lab Management 2010" something to look at later.

3 part download:

VS2010TFS_RC1_Total3Parts.part1.exe 700.0 MB

VS2010TFS_RC1_Total3Parts.part2.rar 700.0 MB

VS2010TFS_RC1_Total3Parts.part3.rar 168.7 MB

Hummm - seems like the download size is fixed 700+700+168=1568, you have to download the exe at minimum to extract the iso from the rar's... Not sure how you can just download the 168mb rar and get the whole system, but I will keep you posted on what I find in the rar's when I get them downloaded.