Installing VS2005 SP1 and TFS SP1 betas

One of my goals for this afternoon was to get my first look at the beta of the first service pack for both Visual Studio 2005 and Team Foundation Server. The first step was to create a new virtual client so 30 minutes later I had Windows XP Pro with SP2 installed and I was installing Visual Studio 2005 Team Suite. While Team Suite installed on the client I fired up a new virtual server instance running Windows 2003 Standard Edition and set to work on a new TFS installation. Thanks to some nice hardware and plenty of practice, this was all done in a little over an hour and I did a quick Windows Update to make sure I was full patched and up to date. I created a new team project and confirmed everything appeared to be working as planned. So far so good fingerscrossed

Installing TFS Service Pack 1 Beta

On my TFS virtual server I kicked off the SP install with a double click on the VS80sp1-KB922996-X86-Beta-ENU.exe file. A couple of clicks on a dialog box or two followed by no more than 2 minutes and I received a message saying the service pack has successfully installed. I click on the OK button and I’m returned to my desktop. Mmmm.. Easy and a little underwhelming so far smile_regular

A quick peek at the http://servername:8080/VersionControl/v1.0/Repository.asmx/GetRepositoryProperties revealed an interesting change after the service pack was applied.

 TFS 1.0

 TFS 1.0 SP1 (Beta)

 

 

Installing VS2005 Service Pack 1 Beta

On my Windows XP Pro client virtual machine, I doubled clicked the VS80sp1-KB918525-X86-Beta-ENU.exe file. Again the requisite confirmation dialog boxes and I’m faced with the multipling green blocks of a progress bar. After about 5 minutes 50 minutes, things are looking a lot better and a quick run of VSTS shows the following update. 

Well, the works done now and the service pack has been applied. You’ll need to wait for the next post to see what I get up to with it smile_regular

[Update: Thanks to my good friend Martin for pointing out my incorrect install time for the VS2005 SP1 beta install. The 5 minutes should have been more like 50 minutes!!. I walked away during the install for about an hour and did the estimate based on the first progress bar only.]

smile_secret NOTE: While I have chosen to upgrade both my VSTS client and my TFS server to SP1, you should note that you do not need to upgrade these together if you do not wish to. The client and server are completely compatible in both directions.