Langleyben Leon

Team Foundation Server beta3 is up and running!

After long, but pretty straight-forward installation it's done.

First impressions:

• Team System Client refused to be installed on Win2K SP4. I hope it is just my build; otherwise we will have a huge problem.
• There is a lot of syntax changes in Project Template. Most of them seam to be logical and reasonable, but make me to do a lot of manual changes. I hope those will be documented, so somebody will come up with some kind of converter (say XSLT ). I'll try to publish list of changes, I've encounter later.
• One bug we hope will be gone a long time ago: There is some cleanup/rollback problem, after project creation failure project name remains taken, and you can not use it any more. I will try to use project remove utility in the morning. It was not functional in beta2, hopefully it behaves better now.

It is a small step, but I'll keep you posted.

Longhorn PDC2005 CTP setup on VPC

I finally succeeded to setup Longhorn Advanced Server PDC2005 CTP (from famous disk 6) on VPC 2004.
Couple of notes:

• You can not mount Longhorn iso image in VPC directly. The reason is simple: VPC is not working very well with DVD images. You should burn it on the separate disk and then capture it from VPC.
• I was unable to setup on new virtual disk (vhd). Longhorn setup insisted that partition is unavailable. To overcome this, I used old Win98 vhd, and formatted it from Longhorn setup.
• The last thing: be patient, on 512Mb virtual machine, setup is painfully slow.