The installer for TFS 2010 looks great- very nice UI and even had the dependency validation (similar to SQL Server install with the green checkboxes). I decided to brave the install into a Windows Server 2008 R2 (release candidate) for a variety of reasons (HyperV support, Win7 UI, among others) and ran into a problem with the SharePoint part of the install. After you install the SharePoint there are a couple of command line commands (stsadm.exe ….) that you’ll need to run (see TFS 2010 Install Guide). Well, these fail with the following error if you’ve installed SharePoint (without SP2): “Value does not fall within the expected range.”
See the post at http://blogs.msdn.com/dstfs/archive/2009/05/15/installing-tfs-2010-on-windows-server-2008-r2-rc.aspx for the details of how to get around it. There are a couple of steps to fix it. The solution worked like a charm.
I have now created my first Team Project and I like a few things already:
1. Project Collections – Great features for organizing and working with Team Projects in a group.
2. Team Foundation Administration Console – Centralized place to manage all things TFS.
3. Workflow based Team Builds – Very neat and appropriate use of Windows Workflow Foundation. This will make customizing builds very interesting (lots of possbilities for customizations/extensions).
More to come 