Good morning!

My name is Richard Hundhausen
President of Accentient
richard@accentient.com
http://blog.accentient.com

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(visual studio) team system

back-end - Team Foundation Server (TFS)
various front-ends - VS, Office, web apps,
  3rd party, ...

** Licensing Notes

TFS 2008 std ~$3k
if any team member has MSDN/Premier (~$5k)
 - free download of TFS Workgroup Edition
 - For non devs (PM, BA, Testers, other chickens):
   Office (Excel,Project), 3rd party Outlook; CAL ~$300 street
 - web access power tool
 - work item web access power tool (free)

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Cool Links

http://www.teamsystemwidgets.com/
http://www.sourcegear.com/diffmerge/ (free!)
http://ozgrant.com/2007/10/22/vsts-2005-2008-compatibility-matrix/
http://www.codeplex.com/MigrationSyncToolkit
http://www.codeplex.com/TFSAdmin
http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2007/11/30/vsts-web-access-power-tool-for-team-system-2008-released.aspx

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CI = Continuous Integration
do a build every time someone checks in

Licensing on the build server
 - typically you don't need VS team edition
   additional license for this
 - http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/archive/2008/03/18/licensing-team-system-editions-for-your-build-machine.aspx

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Three times when conflicts can occur

#1 - check-in
#2 - get
#3 - unshelve (TFPT UNSHELVE)

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Team Build 2008 Properties (including
 the one you can set to not update work
 items and changesets)

 http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa337598.aspx

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