I've start learning about the Team Foundation Server (TFS), which looks as a great tool by now.

The first question every one asks me is how could I connect to the TFS, so the first and the simple way to do this is to install the TFS client (also named: Team Explorer), which can be found in the installation CD. This installation will give you the TFS Explorer window, which is pretty much the same as Server Explorer for the SQL-Server.
This is also can work as a stand alone Explorer for those of you who do not have the Visual Studio installed on their machine.

The second suggestion, for those who don't work with Visual Studio, like managers, you could see the project overview via the project portal, after all the TFS installation based on Share-Point Server.

My third suggestion is the Team Plain, here you can play with a demo, this tool provide your developers to access to the Team Foundation Server over web access. Team Plain also has new plug-in for Eclipse (someone heard JAVA?!) which also built with ... Java (I told you) and runs anywhere, even Linux, Mac OS etc.
So the Sky is the limit you can manage your projects with TFS, even when your organization is not MS-End-To-End-Based.
This cool tool ain't come for free but you can find more details in here.