New MSDN Online Article: Install Steps for Team System

Check out the new MSDN Online article, which provides guidance on how to install Team System (link below)

Installing the December CTP Release of Visual Studio Team System (by David C. Bost)

I'm going to read it in detail later tonight (after the premiere of the Star Wars III: The Revenge of the Sith trailer (Airing on Fox, tonight sometime during "The O.C.")

But from my first glance, it appears to be concise and easy to follow!  Thanks David for the guidance!

3 Comments

  • Read that article not to long ago, and that was part of the reason I ordered 2 gig of Mem for my new laptop. I did a double take when I read "On a host machine with 2 GB of memory available, 500 MB will be allocated for the host OS. It is possible to allocate less memory for the guest virtual machines, but doing so can lead to unpredictable results." Yikes!

  • You're welcome, Scott. Good luck with the install. Let me know if you have any issues and/or questions. I'll do my best to answer them.



    Jim -



    The memory requirement is a hard pill to swallow but this is only required when you're trying to get both virtual machines running on the same box. Also realize this a CTP release (ie. no attention paid to performance requirements). If you have the available resources, such as two machines, you could certainly have one VM running on one machine and the second VM running on the other. As long as the two VM's are the same network, you're good to go. In my case, I have a VM running the client on my laptop (so I can take VS with me) and the App tier VM and Data tier VM running on a Dev server in my home office. Unfortunately my laptop is maxed out at 1GB (time for a new laptop). Beta2 promises to allow for all three tiers to execute on one machine (or one VM if you're in the virtual world), and I'm looking forward to it's release date.

  • Awesome, Thanks for the feedback Dave! I too am looking forward to Beta2, and to be honest I just needed one reason to add 2 GB of mem to my new laptop, so I picked your article :)

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