Brian Harry's Blog

TFS and Reliability and Disaster Recovery

November 24, 2006 Nov 24, 2006 11/24/06

Brian Harry

We continue to evolve and improve upon the TFS reliability and disaster recovery story.  Fundamentally reliability and disaster recovery are about preserving service (or minimizing outage) and eliminating data loss in the face of failure in components of your system.  When we look at TFS component failure, we primarily focus on the...

TFS V1 is incompatible with WSS 3.0

November 22, 2006 Nov 22, 2006 11/22/06

Brian Harry

There seems to have been a fair number of questions on this issue so Jason Barile wrote something up about it on his blog.  We are working to add support for WSS 3.0 for the Orcas release of TFS.Brian...

SD Times Article about TFS

November 20, 2006 Nov 20, 2006 11/20/06

Brian Harry

SD Times recently posted an article about TFS (and about VS Orcas).  I’m only going to talk about the TFS part of it here and leave any thoughts on the broader VS and Vista comments to others to comment on.  I think it’s a good and balanced article. Both the good in the bad are captured in one quote in the ...

Wrap up on CTP feedback

November 19, 2006 Nov 19, 2006 11/19/06

Brian Harry

OK, I've digested the feedback from a variety of sources and want to play it back.  As with any sufficiently involved topic, I won't capture everything everyone said but rather I'm just trying to capture the recurring patterns. So what I've heard is: Have I captured the key feedback?  Is there anything important that I ...

Feedback on VS Community Technology Previews (CTPs)

November 9, 2006 Nov 9, 2006 11/9/06

Brian Harry

We recently had an internal email thread with some people on our advisory councils giving us feedback on our CTP process.  There was some interesting and somewhat surprising feedback.  I wanted to solicit broader feedback from the community on what you want from the CTP process.  Here's some questions to get you thinking about ...

Visual Studio Team System Chat – Wed, Nov 8th

November 7, 2006 Nov 7, 2006 11/7/06

Brian Harry

Sorry for the late notice but we are having a Team System Chat tomorrow and I'm hoping lots of people will be there.  The last one about a month ago was a record with something like 200 questions in 1 hour.  I'll be there and happy to answer (as best I can) any questions you have.  So, if you've got anything you want to know ...

Improvements for Continuous Integration using TFS

November 7, 2006 Nov 7, 2006 11/7/06

Brian Harry

One of the big complaints we've gotten from customers trying to build a Continuous Integration or similar automated build and test system with VSTS has been around the difficulty of authoring and maintaining the test lists that identify what tests to run as part of the build process. Buck has come to the rescue and provided a new msbuild task ...

Pretty cool TFS add-on

November 7, 2006 Nov 7, 2006 11/7/06

Brian Harry

I just got mail informing me that Attrice has released a new version of their TFS add-on called TFS Sidekick.  It is a VS plugin that adds some interesting new features, including... You can find out more info about it here. And you can download it from here.   I've already passed some feedback on to the authors.  Feel free ...