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TFS 2010 update available

Microsoft released an update (KB 983578) for:

  • Team Foundation Server 2010
  • All Team Explorer 2010 clients

Although it is called the Lab Management update it not only contains features for Lab Management but also for other TFS components.

What's in the upgrade?

Enables Visual Studio 2010 Lab Management functionality

  • Improves performance for Lab Management Workflow Wizard.
  • Improves performance for running automated test cases on Network Isolated Lab environments.
  • Fixes an issue in which a Test Controller service account that is the same as a Lab Service account causes issues with environment capabilities.
  • There is a new Expression Encoder 4.0 based Video Diagnostic data adapter to collect video recording when you perform tests. This diagnostic adapter replaces the Windows Media Encoder base video diagnostic adapter.

Install/Upgrade

  • Labels created in TFS2008 do not contain items after migration to TFS 2010 under certain rename/delete conditions.
  • TFS Cannot be re-installed (ATOnly) targeting a database that was patched before.
  • Tfs2010Beta2ToRTM operation is not executed when RC database is upgraded by post RTM server (RTM + Patch1 or SP1).

TFS Build

  • VS2008 “smart device” projects pick up the 2010 MSTEST rather than the 2008 one.
  • Unavailable build agents are pinged indefinitely rather than giving up after an hour.
  • Duplicate changeset listings in build report.
  • Test results for VS2008 solution not published in case of a failed test.
  • Cannot delete build drops if a controller goes down
  • Open Process File Location” grayed out on menu- right click on a build definition when connected to a TFS 2008 server

Version Control

  • Branch from label has been removed in TFS 2010 – now it’s back.
  • Convert folder to branch on a hierarchy root folder with children and cycle renames crashes VS.
  • Unshelve reports bogus errors about a null DownloadUrl when dependent renames are shelved and child item names overlap.
  • Incorrect query plan on QueryPendingChanges when querying all users pending changes can lead to bad performance.
  • merge /discard in both directions causes unnecessary “empty” merges in future merge attempts.
  • Issue in merge causes a conflict not to be generated when there is a rename in the target and source.
  • Overly aggressive automatic detection of file encoding can result in inappropriate encoding mismatches during merges.

Work Item Tracking

  • Work item queries containing references to deleted fields can cause a red X on the work items node.

Team Web Access

  • Firefox Browser: "Link Selected Items to a New Work Item" and other dialogs don't launch pages successfully
  • Chrome Browser: Adding an attachment doesn't work
  • Chrome Browser: Select Query Dropdown doesn't work in Choose Work Items window
  • Chrome Browser: Retain/Delete a build in Build Report page will get an exception “Unexpected callback response”
  • Query Picker Web Part Incorrectly Renders List Items (Rows) in List View (Overflow DIVs) within WebKit-based Browsers (including Safari, Chrome, etc)

The upgrade applies to

  • Visual Studio 2010
  • TFS Application Tier
  • Team Explorer 2010
  • Microsoft Test Manager (MTM)
  • TFS Build Controller
  • TFS Build Agent
  • TFS Test Controller
  • TFS Test Agent
  • TFS Lab Agent
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