In my job, I get talk to people every day who are excited about the new and improved capabilities of Team Foundation Server 2013. I have talked to several organizations who are already running Team Foundation Server 2013 Preview in production, which is great. But for some organizations, upgrading to pre-release software on their production servers can be a bit scary. If you are interested in upgrading to Team Foundation Server 2013 and you don’t want to wait until RTM, we are here to help.
Team Foundation Server 2013 Upgrade Weekend is happening September 13-15 (Friday – Sunday). During this weekend, Microsoft experts will be standing by after hours to provide no-charge assistance for Team Foundation Server 2013 installation, configuration, and upgrades. If you are interested in taking advantage of Upgrade Weekend, please visit http://aka.ms/TFSUpgradeWeekend. This brief survey will pre-register you to take advantage of the Upgrade Weekend offer and will help us to appropriately staff engineering and support resources. If you don’t yet have a profile on Microsoft Connect you will need to complete a brief Connect registration profile prior to accessing the survey. This survey will remain open until September 6th.
Here are just a few reasons to consider upgrading to Team Foundation Server 2013:
- Scale agile planning and tracking efforts across your entire organization with agile portfolio management
- Utilize your choice of source control providers – either the traditional centralized Team Foundation Version Control, or new Git-based repositories
- Collaborate more effectively with team rooms for real-time and event-based communications
- Lay the foundation for new Visual Studio 2013 client features such as CodeLens for providing developers with a “heads-up display” for their code
- Use your choice of Microsoft Test Manager or Team Web Access to plan, run, and track your testing efforts
- And bragging rights for being on the newest version of Team Foundation Server!
Of course, you don’t have to wait until Upgrade Weekend to try Team Foundation Server 2013 or any of the rest of the products in the Visual Studio 2013 family. You can download previews of these products today from http://aka.ms/GetVS2013. All of these products have “go live” licenses which means you can run them in production and perform your day-to-day development activities with them. You can also contact Microsoft Support if you need assistance.