New TFS Gadgets

As the Microsoft.TeamFoundation namespace opens up all the TFS functionality for third-party tool development/integration it should be no surprise that we're starting to see more gadgets built to help teams productively work together in fulfilling their team's missions.

TFS Team Members Power Tool - see http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2008/11/13/extending-the-new-tfs-team-members-power-tool.aspx or http://www.codeplex.com/tfscollab/SourceControl/ListDownloadableCommits.aspx for more on this.

Teamprise Remote Accelerator - I'm not as excited about this one - http://www.teamprise.com/products/accelerator - but its good in case the TFS server is ever super-widely used.

System Center 2007 Management Pack for TFS 2008 - great for monitoring uptime and problems with the TFS server(s) - http://blogs.msdn.com/granth/archive/2008/11/26/tfs-management-pack-for-system-center-operations-manager-2007-shipped.aspx

TFS to TFS Migration Tool - it comes with a lot of disclaimers on when you should not use it - http://www.codeplex.com/tfstotfsmigration

TFS Working On - the perfect system tray tool for tracking which task you are presenty working on - http://www.codeplex.com/TFSWorkingOn