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The Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools is a set of enhancements, tools and command line utilities that improve the Team Foundation Server 2008 experience.

• The Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools is a set of enhancements, tools and command line utilities that improve the Team Foundation Server user experience.
  
  The following tools are installed with the tfpt.msi package:
  • Command line tool (TFPT.EXE)
  • Team Explorer IDE menu additions
  • Build Notification tool
  • TFS Best Practices Analyzer
  • Process Template Editor
  • Work Item Templates
  • Custom check-in policies
  • TFS Server Manager
  • TFS Users tool
  • Alert Editor
  • TFS Power Shell Extensions
  • TFS Windows Shell Extensions
  • Team Members Tool
  
  
  Also available is the WssExt64Bit installer which provides the ability to install the Team Foundation Server WSS extensions into a 64-bit WSS instance. The RTM version of the WssExt installer that ships with Team Foundation Server 2008 does not support 64-bit WSS sites.
  
  For more information, see Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools.

Files

Status: Deleted This download is no longer available on microsoft.com. The downloads below are archives provided by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine from the Microsoft Download Center prior to August 2020.

File	SHA1 Hash	Size
tfpt.msi	38df8407020d36d49ba86ce49b5cc2c5b32c4f40	10.53 MB
TFS Power Tools Uninstall Instructions (July 08 and earlier).doc	b1e12f6fe31859396d9d5267ce48fdcc6228877d	8 KB
WssExt64Bit.msi	e39143fe788f78412b0352f47655dcbd71c55ca1	4.29 MB

• • Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server
  • Visual Studio 2008 Team Explorer
  
  The Best Practices Analyzer and Power Shell Extensions require:
  • Windows PowerShell 1.0 (see Related Resources)
  
  The Team Members Tool supports:
  • Live Messenger 8.0 and later
  • Office Communicator 2005 and later
  
  
  Some of the tfpt.exe commands require Team Foundation Server 2008 Team Explorer SP1 to be installed.

• Download and run tfpt.msi and follow the instructions. For this release all previous versions of the Power Tools must be uninstalled. The installer will attempt to do this for you. If the Power Tools were installed by other users accounts on you machine then you will be prompted to log in as those users and uninstall. Please refer to the TFS Power Tools Uninstall Instructions (July 08 and earlier).doc document available for download below if you have have difficulty getting all previous versions uninstalled.
  
  Please note that the TFS Windows Shell Extensions are not installed by default. Choose Custom when prompted at installation to add the tool to the installed components.
  For the WssExt 64-bit installer download and run WssExt64bit.msi and follow the instructions. For more information, see Team Foundation Installation Guide
  
  For help with Team System Process Editor, see PEUserGuide.doc in the Process Template Editor sub-directory of the Team Foundation Power Tool installation directory.
  
  The TFS Server Manager and TFSUSers executables are located in the Team Foundation Power Tool installation directory.