Migrating from VS Professional to VS Team System

Question

We are looking at the transition from Visual Studio 2008 Professional to Visual Studio Team System. I believe that I read that the Development Edition client is in addition to what Professional does / does. First, I would like to facilitate the transition with the client end, and then start Team Foundation Server and start it later, and I want to be sure that I will not lose functionality. If all goes well, the rest of my team will follow along with the update. Let me know if this sounds like the right direction, or if you had problems migrating in that direction. Thank.

Answer 1

Team System (Developer / Suite) is a superset of Professional and as such, you get only improvements by updating. The tester is a slightly different set of functions, although it is included in the Suite.

The most common transition method is to update all dev stations at once. There is no reason not to.

As for Team Foundation Server, this requires a bit more planning depending on your versioning and project management needs; which in itself is a conversation.