I still continue exploring the novelties of TFS 2010. From time to time Brian Harry posts marvelous overviews of new features and improvements done to TFS. And I see many improvements done to increase usability. And that’s great, because TFS is quite a big and complex thing, and adopting TFS needs big amount of adequate training. So, I think, any steps towards better usability and understanding of the product will be, undoubtedly, welcome.

Back to the TFS 2010 features, there will be significant changes in the administration part.
First, administration console appears to help understand how TFS is configured, and to make adjustments. Features of the admin console include:

1. Review/configure TFS topology – application tiers, data tiers, databases, Sharepoint, Reporting Services, build servers, etc.
   Enumerate, create and delete team project collections
   Enable/disable Team Project Collections – individual Team Project Collections can be disabled/enabled so they can be serviced independently.
   Export/Import of TPCs (see the section on Team Project Collections for more on this)
   Consolidated access to various TFS logs, and more

Much progress was made in consolidating the various admin tools (witimport, witexport, …) into a few broader admin tools – tfsconfig, witadmin, …

And lastly, username support has been introduced. In previous versions of TFS, changing a user’s name was manual. Once it was changed in Windows/AD, there were steps that that had to be run to update TFS. For a large organization, it was a repetitive task. In TFS 2010, it is totally automatic. When a user’s name is changed in Windows/AD, TFS is automatically updated.