I'm currently preparing the introduction of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (2008) for my business. Unfortunately as to my current research it seems as if there is not too much written information about the product available at microsoft.com . I found a brief downloadable product overview on the main product pages but that's more or less it.
Digging a bit deeper I happened to stumble across a TFS dedicated project at CodePlex, the Microsoft hosted site for open source initiatives. The team there published a great Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Guide!
On 496 pages this guide covers everything you need to know. Here's the table of contents:
- Cover Page
- Title
- Copyrights Page
- Foreword by Jeff Beehler
- Foreword by Rob Caron
- Introduction
- Part I: Fundamentals
- Introducing the Team Environment
- Team Foundation Server Architecture
- Part II: Source Control
- Structuring Projects and Solutions in Team Foundation Source Control
- Defining Your Branching and Merging Strategy
- Managing Source Control Dependencies in Visual Studio Team System
- Part III: Builds
- Team Build Explained
- Setting up Continuous Integration with Team Build
- Setting up Scheduled Builds with Team Build
- Par IV: Large Project Considerations
- Part V: Project Management
- Project Management Explained
- Work Items Explained
- Part VI: Process Templates
- Process Templates Explained
- MSF for Agile Software Development Projects
- Part VII: Reporting
- Part VII: Setting Up and Maintaining the Team Environment
- Team Foundation Server Deployment
- Providing Internet Access to Team Foundation Server
- Part IX: Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server
- Guidelines
- Practices
- Questions and Answers
- How Tos
- Resources
I've read through the first 150 pages so far and it has been a very good, solid and fundamental read. Thanks to the folks at CodePlex and in case you've been looking for more on Team Foundation Server, too, I recommend to download and jump start with this guide!