--- title: "Project Server Connector for Team System RTM announced" url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/10/25/project-server-connector-for-team-system-rtm-announced.md" canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2006/10/25/project-server-connector-for-team-system-rtm-announced.html" published: "2006-10-25T21:43:58" updated: "2006-10-25T21:43:58" tags: ["Team System"] author: "Roy Osherove" description: "One of the issues that many people have faced when moving to Team System was how to integrate it with their existing project management software. Specifically, Microsoft Project Server. Team System can already connect…" usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)." license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/" --- # Project Server Connector for Team System RTM announced By Roy Osherove October 25, 2006 In [Team System](https://osherove.com/blog/category/team-system) **Historical article** · Originally published October 25, 2006; technical details may be outdated. One of the issues that many people have faced when moving to Team System was how to integrate it with their existing project management software. Specifically, Microsoft Project Server. Team System can already connect to Project professional, but project server is a much more robust solution for managing multiple projects and resources in parallel. There was a sample Team System Connector for project server that worked with Beta 2 of team system, but the RTM version suffered for a long time until today I got the announcement that the [VSTS Connector for Project Server 2003 is finally ready](http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/workspace.aspx?id=b9f69ea5-ace1-4a21-846f-6222a507cc9c). [You can download it directly from here](http://www.avanadeadvisor.com/TFS-ProjectServerConnector.zip). the full announcement [is here](http://www.gotdotnet.com/workspaces/releases/viewuploads.aspx?id=b9f69ea5-ace1-4a21-846f-6222a507cc9c). > "**The** Connector synchronizes Project, Resource and Task data between the two systems. Project Managers, Resource Managers continue to work in the EPM environment while the development team works in the development environment, i.e. VSTS, and data seamlessly flows between the two systems. Updates to work items in VSTS are automatically applied to the corresponding assignments and tasks in Project Server and vice versa. Project Managers have complete control over the inflow of the actuals into the project plan. In addition, resource management functions for all development projects, like managing time and utilization for resources working across multiple projects, team staffing etc. can be performed in Project Server. Lastly, portfolio and program level reports can easily be generated for projects being executed in VSTS and managed in Project Server. " ## More in Team System [All posts in Team System](https://osherove.com/blog/category/team-system) - Nov 12, 2006 ### [Managing team build files sucks a little less with Attrice SideKick for VSTS](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/11/12/managing-team-build-files-sucks-a-little-less-with-attrice-s.html) - Nov 7, 2006 ### [Agile Development Sessions - Slides and Demos from TechEd](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/11/7/agile-development-sessions-slides-and-demos-from-teched.html) - Oct 2, 2006 ### [My sessions at TechEd Europe 2006](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/10/2/my-sessions-at-teched-europe-2006.html) - Sep 24, 2006 ### [Continuous integration with Team System and Team Foundation Server](https://osherove.com/blog/2006/9/24/continuous-integration-with-team-system-and-team-foundation.html) --- ## About the author **Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery. ### Sites - [RobotPaper](https://robotpaper.ai/): This blog: AI patterns and anti-patterns, AI and coding agents, and engineering leadership. - [osherove.com](https://osherove.com): Roy's personal site. Author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership; consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery, plus about 20 years of blog posts. - [The Art of Unit Testing](https://www.artofunittesting.com): The Art of Unit Testing, 3rd Edition (Manning): readable, maintainable, trustworthy unit tests, plus TDD workshops in C#, JavaScript, Java and Kotlin. - [5whys.com](https://www.5whys.com): Roy's writing on software team leadership: self-organizing teams, surviving chaos, learning mode and the Elastic Leadership model. - [Pipeline Driven](https://pipelinedriven.org): Continuous delivery and DevOps practices: build patterns, pipeline-friendly testing, DevOps metrics and enterprise DevOps. - [Elastic Leadership](https://www.elasticleadership.com): Elastic Leadership, Roy's framework for software team leaders (survival, learning and self-organizing modes). ### Social - X: https://x.com/royosherove - LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/osherove/ ### Contact - Contact form: https://forms.gle/jQSx5KoXvrVA1JCK7 ### License Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page). 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