TFS Power Tools, v1.3 (September 2007 Release), with Two New Tools, TFS Best Practices Analyzer and Work Item Templates

Microsoft Downloads - Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Power Tools - September 2007 release

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The Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Power Tools is a set of enhancements, tools and command line utilities that improve the Team Foundation Server user experience. This release includes everything from the previous Power Tools release and includes two great new tools: the Team Foundation Server Best Practices Analyzer and Work Item Templates.

• Team Foundation Server Best Practices Analyzer (TFS BPA) – TFS BPA is a diagnostic tool that performs the following functions: gathers configuration information from a Team Foundation Server deployment, performs specific tests on the Team Foundation Server deployment, analyzes the collected information according to specific rules, reports the findings as information, warning, or error messages, and lastly provides links to articles to resolve warning and error messages.
• Work Item Templates - Work Item Templates feature that supports the ability to create, apply, capture, and set default work item templates. This feature adds additional menu items to the Team Work Item Templates menu.

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Glad to see the plural, "Power Tools," now. (Stupid nick picky thing I know, but the formal "Power Tool" name just bugged me...)

For more information on the two new features check out bharry's WebLog - September TFS Power Tools Released (in which he also notes that this is the last TFS Power Tools for VS2005)

 

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