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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Tags: Team System 2008, Team System 2008 SP1