Sample Script to Enable New Features in Upgraded Team Projects (TFS 2010 Beta1)

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05/20/2009

Introduction

When you upgrade your existing Team Foundation Server to version 2010, upgraded team projects will work as before. However, you need to make some changes to these team projects if you want to enable the following features:

Test Case Management
Agile Planning Workbooks
Branch Visualization
Lab Management

In this post, I’m providing a sample script to help you with many of the steps. For complete information about enabling these features, see the following article:

Enabling New Features of Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1 in Upgraded Projects

Required Changes

Refer to the table below for a summary of the required changes to enable the new features for upgraded team projects. Note that these changes are only necessary for the team projects that existed before the upgrade. If you are creating new team projects, all of these features are enabled by default.

Feature	Requirements
Test Case Management	Add Test Case and Shared Step work item types () Update existing Bug and Scenario work item types () Add new link types () Add work item categories ()
Agile Planning Workbooks	Update existing Task and Scenario work item types (*) Create iteration and product backlog queries Bind workbooks against the queries Modify workbook document properties
Lab Management	Grant lab management permissions to user groups Provision lab resources
Reports	Update your existing reports to work against the new warehouse
Branch Visualization	Convert branches using source control explorer

(*): You can use the sample script attached to this article to make these changes marked with (*) in the table above.

However, this sample script is designed to work if the following are true:

You are using the Beta1 (English) version of Team Foundation Server 2010
Your team project was created with the English language version of “MSF for Agile Software Development - v4.2” process template before you upgraded your Team Foundation Server
No modifications have been made to the work item type definitions on your team project before or after the upgrade
You are running the script on an English operating system

You need to either modify the sample script, or create your own if:

Your team project was created with a process template other than “MSF for Agile Software Development v4.2” (English)
You have made modifications to the out of box work item type definitions on your team project
Your team project already has an existing Test Case work item type
You want to use the existing “Repro Steps” field on your Bug work item type
You are using a non-English Team Foundation Server

Sample Script

The attached ZIP file contains the script and updated MSF for Agile 4.2 work item type definitions. You must be a project collection administrator to run this script. The script requires the witadmin.exe utility which is installed by Team Explorer and Team Foundation Server.

To use the script, download and extract it to a local directory such as C:\Upgrade. Before you run the script, open “EnableFeatures.bat” in a text editor and complete the configuration by specifying values for the following:

Team Foundation Server URL
Name of the team project collection
Name of the team project
Path to witadmin.exe utility
Set ConfigComplete = 1 to indicate that you’ve completed this step

Important: This script will only work against “unmodified” team projects created with “MSF for Agile Software Development – v4.2” process templates on Beta1 version of Team Foundation Server 2010.