Jand writes about team development and Microsoft.NET

Being the first is not always the best, especially if you want to be the first on a new software release . So if you already want to install the Service Pack 1 for your Team System environment, I want to give you some hints to not getting troubles.

1. Before installing SP1 make sure you run the Hotfix Cleanup Utility for Visual Studio to cleanup your current installation
2. If you have Express Edition and normal Visual Studio installed, you can’t update Express before upgrading normal Visual Studio
3. When upgrading your TFS with an installation of Visual Studio make sure that you first install SP for Visual Studio and then the one for TFS. If you first install TFS SP1, then you can’t update Visual Studio anymore…
4. Update all your tiers with SP1 (this includes Build Server, Load Controller, TFS and Client) to avoid unpredictable errors
5. If you working with ASP.NET Ajax you should wait to upgrade, because there could be a bug in the SP. This was reported by Thomas Schissler in his blog post (German).
6. If you make a new installation of TFS and want to include installing SP1, then look for the updated TFS Installation Guide to integrate SP1 in the installation (there is currently no TFS2008 ISO incl. SP1).
7. Look for the Readme listing the known issues

As good practice I advice my customers (Production environments) to wait for the next 2 weeks to make sure no big problems will be found.