TeamCompanion
TeamCompanion for Microsoft Outlook – the best companion for your Microsoft Team System based team!
Current version:2.0
Ekobit presents the TeamCompanion for Microsoft Outlook, an Add-In for the Microsoft Office Outlook – the perfect solution for integrating e-mail and Microsoft Outlook with the Team Foundation Server. The TeamCompanion improves your project communication and removes friction from it.
With the TeamCompanion you can access project related information using Microsoft Outlook without having to switch between applications. It enables accessing some of most important artifacts in your Team System environment, such as team projects, work items, etc., without the need to use the Visual Studio Team Explorer or Team System Web Access.
TeamCompanion enables you to take your work items offline – all work item data is available for read-only access, even if your Team Foundation Server is not accessible. You only need to connect to the server when editing Work Items.
By integrating standard Outlook actions, the TeamCompanion increases your productivity dramatically. E-mails can directly be attached to existing work items, thereby enhancing team communication and cooperation, new work items can easily be created (from scratch or based on selected e-mails) or new appointments created from work items. With the TeamCompanion you can take advantage of some standard Outlook features, such as the instant search feature which searches through all work item fields, even if you are offline, or the grouping and favorite folders features.
Exciting addition to the feature list of TeamCompanion is Vista desktop search integration. TeamCompanion makes it possible to simply insert a keyword in the Vista startup menu “Start search” edit box and get full text search of work items. Click on a result link and open the work item in standard familiar work item editor.
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"Using work items within Outlook in offline mode... I love this idea!"
Tomislav Bronzin - Microsoft Regional Director, MVP Solution Architect
"Am I using TeamCompanion? Are you kidding? I am using it 24/7!"
Willy Peter Schaub, VSTS MVP
Starting at just $139 for single user licence. |
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The TeamCompanion for Microsoft Outlook features:
- Support for Microsoft Outlook 2007 and Outlook 2003
- Support for Team Foundation Server 2005 and Team Foundation Server 2008
- Support for offline work with Work Items
- Scheduled Work Item queries
- Work Item query management support
- Ad-hoc queries
- Support for Reminders, To-Do Bar view integration *
- Bulk state change
- Bulk Reassign To
- Create Work Item from E-mail, Create E-mail from Work Item **
- Create Work Item from Task, Create Task from Work Item
- Create Work Item from RSS feed entry, Attach RSS feed to Work Item
- Creating new appointments out of Work Items
- Editing areas and iterations support
- Easy navigation through TFS Servers, Projects, Queries and Work Items
- Desktop search integration - full text search for Work Items
- Subscription to TFS alert notifications support
- Integration with Excel and Project
- Accessing the project portal
- Adding Query folders to the Favorite Folders list
- Add related Work Item action support
- Trial period extended to 90 days
For more on features click here.
* For reminders to work you need to open Properties dialog for the TeamCompanion folder and turn the option "Display reminders and Tasks from this folder in the To-Do Bar".
**You must be connected to the TFS if you want to: edit existing Work Items, create new Work Items or attach e-mails to your Work Items.
Copyright notice: Microsoft, Outlook and the Visual Studio Team System logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries.
