Get ready to “go live” with Team Foundation Server 2010 beta 2!

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Beta 2 of Team Foundation Server 2010 is going to be available very soon NOW! - unfortunately that’s all that the marketing team will let me tell you right now. :-) But the best news is that beta 2 of Team Foundation Server 2010 will have a “go live” license, meaning that you can use it for your day-to-day application building (unlike beta 1 which was limited to just evaluation, tire kicking, learning the new features, etc.). There will also be some (limited) support available to help you adopt beta 2. We are ramping up our product support teams now to help you take advantage of this option. More details later on what “go live” means exactly and how we’ll be helping your organization take advantage of it… More details on the Beta 2 "go live" can be found here.

But in preparation for beta 2, there are some things that you can be doing now in order to take advantage of the release as soon as it’s available for download. The Team Foundation Server product team has put together some great guidance which can give you a checklist of things to do as you prepare to take advantage of beta 2. This guidance is available as an overview in a PowerPoint deck, or in greater detail in the Word document. I’ve uploaded both of them for you to check out.

These documents are somewhat rough (our professional writers were hard at work on the product documentation for beta 2!) but they should give you a good framework with which to begin having discussions within your organization about adopting Team Foundation Server 2010 beta 2.

Was this helpful? Is there more that we can be doing to help you get ready? I would love to hear from you (either via my blog comments, or you can email me directly).