VSTS Extended

I got an email from John Lawrence today regarding Team Foundation extensibility. The WIT team are releasing an article fairly soon that covers creating custom Work Item Types. Watch this space.
In the mean time, I have been looking at the extensibility kit to create custom work item types with the four command-line tools (WIT import/export) but I have not had any luck getting that working to any great degree. I was then pointed (thanks John!) to Dave McKinstry's post on the customisation process in VSTS projects and started looking at Process Template Customisation. This covers six main parts via plugins:

1. Classification Structure Service (Css)
   Defines a team project's initial iterations, organization units, components, or feature areas.
   
2. Group Security Service (gss)
   Defines a team project's initial security groups and their permissions.
   
3. Windows SharePoint Services (wss)
   Defines the project portal for the team based on a SharePoint site template. Also defines template files and process guidance.
   
4. Currituck
   Defines a team project's initial work item types, queries, and work item instances.
   
5. Rosetta
   Defines a team project's initial reports.
   
6. Source Code Control (scc)
   Defines a team project's initial source code control security permissions, and check in notes.

The documentation in the kit goes into further detail so check it out if your interested. I am still going through the MSF Agile template xml that I extracted via VS and it is giving me a good insight into key concepts and architecture of process templates in VSTS. I recommend anyone interested in VSTS customisation to have a browse of this.
That said, I can't wait for the upcoming article guys!! :)