There is no built-in command to achieve this. Workaround You can turn off all e-mail alerts in the TFS Admin Console by unchecking the "Enable Email Alerts" checkbox. Alternatively you could also remove disable SMTP settings via command line: %ProgramFiles%\TFSConfig ConfigureMail /Enabled:False|True (Special thanks to Jim Lamb, Microsoft, for making me aware of the command […]
Entries Tagged as 'Work Item Customization'
How can I temporarily suspend TFS event notification mails?
March 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · TFS Administration, TFS Project Portal and Team Communication, Work Item Customization
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Enriching your Work Item Descriptions by Moving them to a HTML field
March 22nd, 2011 · No Comments · Tools and Utilities, Work Item Customization
In the Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 process template (and most likely in future process templates), Microsoft is using HTML fields with rich formatting for the work item description fields. In VS Scrum 1.0… Product Backlog Items and Tasks are using Microsoft.VSTS.Common.DescriptionHtml. Bugs are using Microsoft.VSTS.TCM.ReproSteps instead. You can customize your current process template and add […]
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Solved: Error creating a new Test Case in VS 2010
March 10th, 2011 · 2 Comments · TFS 2010, Work Item Customization
You receive the error message: Work item type is not valid. You must specify a valid work item type. Solution: You need to import work item categories using witadmin like this: importcategories /collection:http://server:8080/tfs/collection /p:Project /f:categories.xml MSDN docs: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd273721.aspx You can extract the categories.xml from the Process Template definition. (Thanks to Ruiz Yi from MSDN Subscriber […]
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Documentation: Customizing Work Item Types
February 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · TFS Process Customization, Work Item Customization
Customizing Work Item Types Defining Work Item Fields Defining and Customizing Work Item Workflow Designing and Customizing a Work Item Form Work Item Type Schema Reference Index to XML Element Definitions for Types of Work Items All WITD XML Elements Reference All FIELD XML Elements Reference All WORKFLOW XML Elements Reference All FORM XML Elements […]
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Microsoft releases Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 process template
July 21st, 2010 · 2 Comments · 14411, 9672, Team Foundation Server, Work Item Customization
As announced here. From the description: This template includes: Work Item Types Sprint Product Backlog Item Bug Task Impediment Test Case Reports Release Burndown Velocity Sprint Burndown Build Success Over Time Build Summary Test Case Readiness Test Plan Progress SharePoint Project Portal Below are screenshots of the Sprint Burndown and Release Burndown reports included with […]
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How to integrate Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL) into your TFS process template
October 5th, 2009 · No Comments · 1531, TFS Process Customization, VSTS, Work Item Customization
Downloads: The Microsoft SDL Process Template for Visual Studio Team System Whitepaper: Manually Integrating the SDL Process Template Additional information: The Microsoft SDL Process Template and the Future Seven steps for manually integrating SDL into your team project
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Using TFS for non-development projects
January 12th, 2009 · 2 Comments · 8970, 9672, Team Foundation Server, TFS Process Customization, Work Item Customization
Team Foundation Server is easily customizable and equipped with a general purpose workflow or state machine. So you might ask yourself: why not put a non-development or rather related process in TFS instead of using separate software. Showcase #1: Lead Management Since here at AIT TeamSystemPro Team we are TFS consultants we decided to not […]
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Specified cast not valid when trying to create a new work item
January 10th, 2009 · No Comments · Team Foundation Server, TFS Process Customization, Work Item Customization
Problem description When trying to create a new work item you receive the following error? Cause Thanks to this thread we now know that this message is caused by a DateTime Control in a WIT definition when its associated with a String field. Fix Only assign DateTime fields to DateTime controls.
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A very Basic Process Template to start with
October 7th, 2008 · No Comments · Downloads, Team Foundation Server, TFS Administration, TFS Tips and Tricks, TFS Work Item Tracking, Work Item Customization
If you want to start small with your team project you might consider the “Basic Process Template” instead of the built-in MSF Agile and MSF CMMI process templates. It can find on MSDN. From the description: The basic process template includes: one work item type: bug, three queries: AllWorkItems, MyWorkItems, and MyWorkItemsAllTeamProjects, a basic Windows […]
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TFS Tip: Enabling Work Item meta data filtering
October 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment · Team Foundation Server, Team System Web Access (TWA), TFS 2008, TFS Installation and Configuration, TFS Tips and Tricks, VSTS, Work Item Customization
Beginning with TFS 2008 SP1 you can specify that only the necessary part of the Work Item meta data will be transferred to the client caches, e.g. not the meta data for project you have no permission on. This is not done by default. You can read all the glory details in Martin Woodward’s blog. […]
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