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Team Explorer Everywhere 2013.2 (Update 2)

September 22, 2014 Sep 22, 2014 09/22/14
Brian Harry
Today, we released Update 2 of Team Explorer Everywhere.  You can read details on Will’s blog post. I’ve been amazed lately how many people don’t know about Team Explorer Everywhere.  We’ve had it for a couple of years now.  It’s a really nice solution for Java/Eclipse users to use Team Foundation ...

SAFe with Team Foundation Server

September 12, 2014 Sep 12, 2014 09/12/14
Brian Harry
Greg Boer posted a very detailed article on how to use the Scaled Agile Framework with TFS: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/visualstudioalm/archive/2014/09/11/scaled-agile-framework-using-tfs-to-support-epics-release-trains-and-multiple-backlogs-whitepaper.aspx Check it out, Brian...

Visual Studio Online Update – Sept 4th

September 4, 2014 Sep 4, 2014 09/4/14
Brian Harry
We’ve recently started bring some larger Microsoft teams into VS Online.  That has been a very enlightening experience.  It has particularly highlighted issues with fit and finish for high bandwidth activities like bug triage, performance and scale issues with larger data sets, etc. This sprint (sprint 70), deploying today, we&...

VS & TFS 2013 Update 4 CTP 1 is available

September 3, 2014 Sep 3, 2014 09/3/14
Brian Harry
I don’t know about you but it’s kind of hard for me to wrap my head around the fact that we are already on the road to delivering Visual Studio 2013.4 and Team Foundation Server 2013.4.  Update 3 wasn’t that long ago.  Today we are delivering Update 4 CTP (Community Technology Preview) 1.  As always, there will be a couple of CTPs...

How to purchase VS Online

August 27, 2014 Aug 27, 2014 08/27/14
Brian Harry
Brian Keller interviewed James Rice (he's on our business team) for Channel 9 about how to purchase Visual Studio Online.  This may clear up any uncertainty you have. https://aka.ms/HowToBuyVSO   Brian  ...

Stakeholder license is live

August 27, 2014 Aug 27, 2014 08/27/14
Brian Harry
About 6 weeks ago, I announced a plan to make some licensing changes to VS Online and Team Foundation Server that would make it easier for more people to participate in the development process.  A few weeks ago, we did part 1 by enabling Test Hub access for VS Online Advanced licenses.  Today we have completed step 2 by enabling the ...

Sending email to a Team Room

August 26, 2014 Aug 26, 2014 08/26/14
Brian Harry
Here's a very cool way to use our new VS Online extensibility (that will be available in TFS V.Next) to enable sending an email to a Team Room.  Our new REST, OAuth and Service Hooks support can be used in countless creative ways. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/slange/archive/2014/08/26/send-email-to-a-team-room-with-vso-service-hooks-and-zapier...

Retrospective on the Aug 14th VS Online outage

August 22, 2014 Aug 22, 2014 08/22/14
Brian Harry
We had a pretty serious outage last Thursday all told it was a little over 5 hours.  The symptoms were that performance was so bad that the service was basically unavailable for most people (though there was some intermittent access as various mitigation steps were taken).  It started around 14:00 UTC and ended a little before 19:30 ...

ALS Ice Bucket Challenge

August 19, 2014 Aug 19, 2014 08/19/14
Brian Harry
Well, today was my turn to take the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.  This morning I was tagged by both Adam Cogan and Scott Guthrie.  Tempting as it is though, I’m not doing it twice (image)   I don’t know if it’s typical, but Adam challenged me to complete the task within 24 hours.  I spent today thinking about how I would get home early ...