VS2008 Professional connecting to TFS 2010 RC on Windows Server 2008

Assuming that you have already installed VS 2008 professional edition (no problem eventhough you have installed the VS 2008 SP1 because anyhow you are going run it again) in your machine and in your machine TFS 2010 RC is installed and configured successfully.

Please follow the following steps as its :

1. You have to install Team Explorer 2008 over your VS2008 Professional SP1.
   
2. You need to reinstall VS2008SP1 to update team explorer.
   
3. After that you have to install Visual Studio Team System 2008 Service Pack 1 Forward Compatibility Update for Team Foundation Server 2010 (Installer) from this link.
   
4. When you connect from VS2008, you need to enter the full URL (ex: :/tfs">https://<MyServer>:<port>/tfs)

Team Foundation Server 2010 RC Installation

After a lengthy hard work we were able to install and configure the Team Foundation Server 2010 RC on Windows 2008 R2. Eventhough the installation and the configuration is easy we had some trouble with the DNS naming of the host machine (thanks to Usman – Team Lead to identifying that issue).

kick off the installation by clicking the setup file and follow the screens just clicking the next button.

After the completion of the installation its time to configure the TFS 2010.

In this situation you have to enter a authenticated user who has the administrator rights in the domain.

from the following screen you can double check all your entries are valid or not by clicking the Verify button. Its one of the best feature in this configuration wizard rather messing up the things after the completion of the installation.