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I got this commonly seen version error when I tried to upgrade my RC version of Office 2010 to RTM Setup is unable to proceed due to the following error(s): Microsoft Office 2010 does not support upgrading from a prerelease version of Microsoft Office 2010. You must first install any prerelease versions of Microsoft Office 2010 products and associated technologies. Correct the issue(s) listed above and re-run setup. I had already removed by RC Office and Visio....

Visual Studio 2010 provides many new features to aid Application Lifecycle Management. Learning its capabilities can be a bit daunting, especially if you are new to Team Foundation Server. So enter the new book ‘Professional Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio 2010: with Team Foundation Server 2010’ by Mickey Gousset, Brian Keller, Ajoy Krishnamoorthy and Martin Woodward. This provides a great overview of all the the key features of Visual Studio and TFS 2010, presented with a view as to how TFS gives an end to end delivery of an ALM process....

Got time today to start our proper internal TFS 2010 rollout. This involves linking up the new TFS to our SharePoint 2010 farm and merging in the contents from 2008 TFS and 2010 RC servers. All went fairly well, our SharePoint farm caused a few problems with its rather nice redirection feature. This allows you to gradually move SharePoint content from an older server to a new one. A page is requested from the new server, if it is there it is used, if it is not the content on the old server is used....

A while ago I blogged about the problems I was having with 403 error when trying to use my HTC phone as a 3G modem or using Opera or IE on the phone itself. When I initially complained Vodafone refunded my data fee for the month and said engineers were onto this known intermittent issue. No grief, Ok I did not want to see 403 errors but I was happy with the customer service, fast and no quibble....

After upgrade TFS 2010 RC to RTM you might see a problem when you try to create a new team project. The creation fails with error: Module: Engine Event Description: TF30162: Task “Queries” from Group “WorkItemTracking” failed Exception Type: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.PcwException Exception Message: TF237195: The following user name is not supported: [SERVER]$$PROJECTCOLLECTIONADMINGROUP$$ The answer is simple, but I had missed it! Make sure that you are creating your new team project from a copy of the 2010 RTM version of Team Explorer....