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Listen to your service – it is talking to you

November 12, 2013 Nov 12, 2013 11/12/13
Brian Harry
We had a nasty enough service incident on Friday that I can’t let it pass without commenting on it.  If you follow my blog or the service, then you know we were doing a deployment on Friday.  The natural assumption, both inside and outside Microsoft, was that it was caused by the deployment.  It wasn’t, but more on that in a minute. ...

Team Foundation Service Update – Nov 8

November 8, 2013 Nov 8, 2013 11/8/13
Brian Harry
Because of the big launch we’re doing next week, we updated TFService with the sprint 56 deployment a little early.  We deployed a couple of nice improvements today – making our charting feature easier to share and improving our load testing service.  You can read more about the changes in the release notes. Next week is ...

TFS Git support for Continuous Delivery to Azure Web Sites and Services

November 7, 2013 Nov 7, 2013 11/7/13
Brian Harry
A little over a year ago we unveiled a continuous delivery feature for TFS –> Azure, allowing you to configure the TFS build pipeline to automatically deploy to running Azure applications.  In the intervening time, we added Git support to TFS but getting Git integrated into all of our scenarios is a journey.  This week we ...

Team Explorer Everywhere 2013 is Available

November 3, 2013 Nov 3, 2013 11/3/13
Brian Harry
Among the deluge of Visual Studio 2013 releases in October, we shipped the 2013 release of Team Explorer Everywhere – updating the experience for team members working in Eclipse and/or on non-Windows environments.  Team Explorer Everywhere includes an Eclipse plug-in, a cross-platform command line client, and a Java SDK for building custom ...