I managed to find a few minutes to scan through the Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Setup & Administration forum yesterday and I have grabbed a few interesting issues that I know are impacting my own evaluation. Here is a summary of the ones that caught my eye. Adding Users from Trusted Domains

Team Foundation Server Beta 3 has a bug in supporting cross-forest trusts (and potentially trusts between domains in different forests) which the product team is looking into. They are currently looking at supporting trusts across forests (explicit trusts and cross forest trusts), as well as one way trusts (as long as the trust goes in the right direction), for RTM.

Work Items: Display name instead of Username/ID

On a Work Item, the “Assigned To” field displays a list of usernames, not the display name from Active Directory. If you are like on of my clients, it means the list contains things like (r345987, o001928, etc). This may be OK in small teams of people where you tend to recognise each others ID, but in larger or more dynamic teams this can be quite annoying. Well the good news for this one, is that the TFS team have reviewed this and from the next CTP of Team Foundation Server, we will see this field display fullnames from Active Directory.

Backup strategy for TFS

The backup plan for TFS Beta 2 was quite a manual process involving 7 databases and a few sharepoint sites. This was definately not what I wanted to tell our Operations guys. The good news here is that we should be seeing some new documentation very soon detailing how you can backup TFS Beta 3 Refresh installations using a straight forward SQL Maintenance Plan which can be automated for nightly backups nice and easily.