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July 28, 2011

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Team Foundation Server 2010®: Deploying Builds to SharePoint®
Whitepaper Published by RepliWeb®


SharePoint Developer and Thought-Leader Luke Grindahl reviews methods and considerations for deploying Builds from Team Foundation Server 2010 to the SharePoint Testing Tier.

RepliWeb, a leader in Application and Content Lifecycle Management solutions for SharePoint, introduces a newly published Whitepaper titled 'Team Foundation Server 2010: Deploying Builds to SharePoint. Methods, Considerations, Guidance'; this free Whitepaper is available for immediate download on the RepliWeb website.

Authored by Luke Grindahl, a thought-leading Internal Applications Developer with Mindsharp, the paper is geared towards IT Professionals, Developers, Architects and other stakeholders who are responsible for managing Team Foundation Server development initiatives, release cycles, and updates across tiered SharePoint farms.

Within this whitepaper, Mr. Grindahl reviews a variety of considerations, including:

  • The 'TFS to SharePoint' Development Lifecycle
  • Common methods for deploying Builds from TFS to the SharePoint Testing Tier
  • 'Key Considerations', 'Pros', and 'Cons' for each method
  • Practical advice for optimizing development.

This Whitepaper is sponsored by RepliWeb and is being offered as a free download.

About Luke Grindahl

Luke Grindahl is a Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist, Microsoft Certified Professional Developer, and Certified Scrum Master based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. A member of the Mindsharp team, Mr. Grindahl is a leading Internal Applications Developer with a focused interest in both Team Foundation Server 2010 and SharePoint. Mr. Grindahl is also a prolific blogger, sharing his findings at www.grindahl.net.

About RepliWeb, Inc.

RepliWeb provides enterprise software and world-class support that ensures information and application availability throughout distributed IT infrastructures. RepliWeb's products are built on over a decade of expertise and dynamic thought leadership in IT automation, scheduling, and transfer acceleration technologies. The company is an industry-recognized leader in Application Release Automation, Managed File Transfer, Enterprise File Replication, SharePoint, and Cloud infrastructures and helps power some of the largest and most important production environments in the world.

About ROSS

RepliWeb's Deployment Manager for SharePoint (ROSS) enables organizations to more effectively manage Application and Content Lifecycles within SharePoint, resulting in an acceleration of release cycles and a reduction in administrative and operating expenses.

ROSS provides selective or comprehensive replication of solutions, content, and virtually all SharePoint artifacts throughout multi-stage (TFS Development, Staging, Production) and multi-site (distributed) environments. Recognized for its ability to both accelerate deployment timelines and provided standardize processes, ROSS ensures production readiness of sites and invokes 'best practices' for change control processes.