After upgrading to TFS 2013, and starting to make use of the new agile planning features, users were reporting they were getting to many alerts.   Most alerting was triggered by a lot of re-prioritisation of stories so to combat that issue the below alerting configuration was setup for each individual user in the team:  

  This link is just about all you will need to migrate from TFS2008 to TFS2010. http://rules.ssw.com.au/TFS/RulesToBetterTFS2010Migration/Pages/default.aspx This link came in handy quite a few times – it contains the commands to un-configure TFS2010. http://blog.accentient.com/2011/01/21/UnconfiguringTeamFoundationServer2010.aspx And finally a great link to backing up your TFS2010 install. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2010/08/18/backing-up-and-restoring-your-tfs-server.aspx This link talks about Visual Studio compatability http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/tfsadmin/thread/670baee4-a5b4-471c-add9-a9bebc1a4f3d/