TECH TIPS

Yesterday, I finished setting up a second instance of TFS 2005 so that I could test the upgrade to TFS 2008. I restored all the databases from the original TFS, ran the Tfs utility to rename the application tier and the data tier, connected with Visual Studios. Then...

I just tried this service and it works pretty well. You need to install a little application on both the server at home and the machine you are trying to connect from, but if you haven't tried it, give it a spin. The free version only allows for remote access while...

Go to Applications > Internet > Terminal Server Client to launch application. Important tip: Enter IP address (server name didn't seem to work) and select RDP as the protocol.

Remote Desktop is disabled by default in Windows Vista, but it's easy enough to turn it back on. If you need to access your Vista PC from another box, it's an essential thing to turn on. To get to the configuration page, you can either right-click the Computer icon...

You may have installed WSS 2.0 using the default configuration only to find out later that to use this for TFS 2005, you need to install it using Server Farm mode.When you use the Add or Remove Programs control panel to remove Windows SharePoint Services from a...

Installing Microsoft Team Foundation Server is a ridiculously arduous and difficult process. I'll spare you my own complaints and simply list the checklist for installing this beast. This assumes you're installing TFS in a domain-enabled environment and in...