For those that cannot find Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server Power Toys anymore (i.e. you may have come across older blog entries of TFPT (Team Foundation Power Toys), they have renamed it Team Foundation Server Power Tool which can be found here.
Wonder if this has anything to do with Paul Litwin's "There's a Reason They are Called Toys" rant out TFPT. =)
All kidding aside though, I have to be in agreement with major roadblocks that TFS Source Control can incur on development teams. For one thing, I think it's already been well documented that the lack of built-in revert/roll back feature was just simply not a smart item to cut from their release. In this day and age, you would consider this as a standard feature but it was declared a cut feature early on (reference: MSDN Forums).
After having worked with the TFS version control offering for the last month, you start longing for the internal Microsoft tools and/or open source version control systems such as Subversion. These are the times when you wish you had adopted a new technology/tool in its V2/V3 cycle, when it has stabilized and matured.
It's not all bad though...I can see potential for improvement and am hopeful of its next release. Especially with the amount of AddIns created by the developer community to spark innovation within Microsoft. One example of this is: http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/files/folders/leon/entry10828.aspx. Also, several TFS tools can be found at CodePlex.
Security Links of the Day:
So it's been a while since I've done a security entry (my last one being "Safeguarding Your Website/App Code From User Input.."). Well, I still haven't come around to doing another one. Instead, taking the path of least resistance, here are a couple links to the recent news.
Web attackers get better at hiding
Report: Targeted e-mail attacks increasing