Team Foundation Server SP1 Beta now available
It has been a long time since I have posted on this blog; one of the reasons for the long absence was that after releasing Team Foundation Server 2008 we have started working on the first service pack for the product. And today I am proud to say that we have a beta version of Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 available for download https://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=DCB535BE-C32E-474C-9F64-282A2849ACC5&displaylang=en
Brian Harry has a post describing the new features in SP1 https://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/04/28/team-foundation-server-2008-sp1.aspx
As a member of the team responsible for setup one of the main features that I would like to talk about is support for SQL Server 2008 CTP6
As you all know Team Foundation Server 2008 RTM is not compatible with SQL Server 2008 CTP6 and later mainly because there are some changes in Reporting Services & Full Text Search that will cause setup to fail or block on the initial environment check. The Challenge that we had was that we needed to deliver a fix for that in SP1 but in the same time customers are blocked from installing the product on SQL 2008 and from here came the idea of using the integrated install method to install RTM & SP1 together
The steps to perform the integrated install are easy
- On the server that you plan to install Application Tier on copy the RTM media (AT folder on the DVD) to a local folder say <AT RTM Folder>
- Extract the SP1 package to a local Folder by executing the command TFS90sp1-KB949786.exe /extract:<SP1 Folder>
- Run the following command to combine both RTM and SP1 to one install package: msiexec /a <AT RTM Folder>\vs_setup.msi /p <SP1 Folder>\ TFS90sp1-KB949786.msp TARGETDIR=<AT SP1 Folder>
- Your Integrated RTM+SP1 setup is now available in <AT SP1 Folder>. You can run setup.exe in this folder to install Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1
Comments
- Anonymous
May 13, 2008
Sorry for being a bit late to the game...  I should have posted yesterday but I've been drowning.  - Anonymous
May 13, 2008
While we already have the code so SP1 final will support the RTM version of SQL Server 2008, because - Anonymous
June 12, 2008
Some Customers are trying to using Team Foundation Server SP1 Beta over the newly released SQL Server - Anonymous
July 03, 2008
The comment has been removed - Anonymous
August 10, 2008
Hi, Abdelhamid!I integrated SP1 into TFS2008, but the resulting package refused to install on SQL Server 2008 RTM.MSSQL 2008 RTM build number is 10.0.1600.22, and SP1 requires 10.0.1300.13.Then I modified hcpackage.xml:action=">=" version="10.0.0.0"instead ofaction="=" version="10.0.1300.13"and removed a couple of issue sections.But the installation wouldn't finish:"Error 29110. Team Foundation Report Server Configuration: Team Foundation Server could not connect to the SQL Reporting Services WMI provider. Verify that SQL Reporting Services is installed and running".Is there a walkaround? - Anonymous
August 11, 2008
Today we have released VS 2008 and TFS 2008 SP1 to Web. You can download them from Server: (Targeting - Anonymous
September 24, 2008
One of the prerequisites for TFS 2008 is that it must be installed to work with SQL Server 2005 SP2 or - Anonymous
September 24, 2008
One of the prerequisites for TFS 2008 is that it must be installed to work with SQL Server 2005 SP2 or - Anonymous
September 24, 2008
One of the prerequisites for TFS 2008 is that it must be installed to work with SQL Server 2005 SP2 or - Anonymous
May 28, 2009
Unable to install TFS 2008 SP1 onto a Windows 2008 SP2 with SQL 2008 SP1. any workarounds? - Anonymous
June 12, 2009
  Para utilizar SQL 2008 con TFS 2008 debes primero aplicar el SP1 de TFS al instalador, primero - Anonymous
June 19, 2009
Please follow the instructions on this KB if you are facing problems with installing with SQL 2008 SP1 http://support.microsoft.com/kb/969985