For Cruise Control, I have CCTray that sits in my taskbar and lets me know if builds are happening or builds are breaking.
Does TFS have anything like this?
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Or Start -> All Programs -> Visual Studio 2010 -> Team Foundation Server Tools -> Build Notifications
Personally, I find the Build Notifications app to be pretty terrible. It is slow for one. I find it better to just create email alerts whenever anything happens with a build. They are much more real time.
Edit: I just noticed you use TFS 2008. I don’t have it installed to check but it should be roughly in the same location.
Edit 2: I realized the tool comes with TFS Power Tools. Find it here:
http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?displaylang=en&id=15836