As a few of you will know, I’m in the middle of delivering a series of VSTS KickStart Workshops around Australia and I’m due in Canberra and Melbourne next week. I woke up this morning and thought to myself “Wouldn’t it be a hoot if we could run this week’s sessions using the RTM version of TFS”. So this morning I’m busily installing TFS RTM and let’s see how we go.

Installation

One of the first things you’ll notice is the Installation Guide has a couple of additional branches.

Team Foundation Installation Walkthroughs

As the name suggested two end to end walkthroughs to guide you through the installation of either the single or dual server installation. This is a nice addition and should help with issues in the previous installation guide where you needed to jump around a bit.

Overview of Repairing and Uninstalling Team Foundation Server

The other new addition to the installation guide is the documentation detailing how to remove and repair the various parts of TFS including the TFS Proxy and TFS Explorer.

The actual installation is almost identical to the process you would have followed for the Release Candidate installation with the exception of a number of new steps added to validate a few of the install points.

My next step is to see how many of the various tools and add-ons are going to play nice. Eg. TFS Admin Tool, Continuous Integration add-in, etc. I’ll try to post as soon as I have some news…