Brian Harry just posted about the many new impressive features and changes coming out in TFS 2008 service pack 1. It is quite a comprehensive blog post and well worth the time to read through it. Check it out at "Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Preview".
List of features:
Version Control
- Add to Source Control
- Drag & Drop
- Version control of unbound files
- Simpler working folder mappings
- Checkin date/time column
- Local Path is now a link
- Editable source location
- Download files to a stream
Work Item Tracking
- Ribbon support for Office 2007
- Easily email work items
TFS Build
- Easily locate TFSBuild.proj file
- Conditionalize builds on the trigger
- Detect test result
- Dynamically created properties
- Reduce build log noise
- Query build definitions across Team Projects
Visual SourceSafe migration tool (vssconverter.exe)
- Elimination of namespace conflicts
- Automatic solution rebinding
- Correction of timestamp issues
- Improved logging
Other areas
- SQL 2008 support
- Team System Web Access links
- # of projects per sever
- Create Team Projects with a script
Performance & Scale
- Improved syncing identities from Active Directory
- Improved checkin concurrency
- tf branch /checkin
- Online index rebuilding
- Team build support for very large checkins
- Faster security manager
- tf get /remap
You can't download any prerelease version of the Service Pack yet, but it shouldn't be too long now.
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