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Where in the world is Brian?

July 29, 2016 Jul 29, 2016 07/29/16
Brian Harry
I apologize for being away for so long.  It's been a weird summer.  I was out of the office for almost a month and have spent the last week furiously trying to catch up.  So I've been absent from my blog for a while now.  I'll fill you in on some of the details. Italy This year is my parent's 50th anniversary.  My brother and I (well ...

Visual Studio Team Services Community Updates

June 8, 2016 Jun 8, 2016 06/8/16
Brian Harry
I’m excited to see the recent surge in community activities around Team Services. Many meetups are taking place around the world in June/July where you can go and talk to Team Services users and fans in your area about some of the new features we’ve released recently and get some Team Services swag as well. You can also meet members of the...

Java Tools Challenge results

June 7, 2016 Jun 7, 2016 06/7/16
Brian Harry
As I mentioned in a previous blog post, we are committed to making VS Team Services a great solution for all developers – for any application on any platform.  3 months ago we kicked off the Java Tools Challenge, sponsored by the Visual Studio Partner Program, and the Visual Studio Marketplace which was a longer term virtual hackathon ...

Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 3 RC is available

June 7, 2016 Jun 7, 2016 06/7/16
Brian Harry
Today we released the release candidate for TFS 2015 Update 3.  Update 3 is a modest release with only a few features and bug fixes for top reported issues. The features in TFS 2015 Update 3 include: We fixed a lot of bugs.  About 140 in total.  I spent about an hour curating the bug list and below are my ...

Team Services Update – June 1

June 7, 2016 Jun 7, 2016 06/7/16
Brian Harry
I'm a bit late this sprint - was a busy week last week. Last week we finished deploying our sprint 100 work.  Yes, sprint 100.  That means we've been doing a Scrum (or Scrum like) development process for 300 weeks.  And for most of that time, actually releasing at the end of every sprint.  Whew, that's over 5 and a half years.  100 ...

Video course: Continuous Delivery with the Windows Stack

June 7, 2016 Jun 7, 2016 06/7/16
Brian Harry
Check out this new video course on automated deployments with Windows, Azure and Visual Studio by Marcel and Rene.  I've known both of them for many years and have a great deal of respect for them.  You can be sure it will be an awesome video with lots of good insights. Thanks, Brian  ...

Visual Studio Team Services is available in Brazil

June 6, 2016 Jun 6, 2016 06/6/16
Brian Harry
Today we launched our Team Services instance in our Azure data center located in Brazil.  This adds to instances in the US, Europe, Australia and India. When you create a new account from https://visualstudio.com we default your Geo to the data center closest to you. Customers in South American countries will now notice that Brazil is the ...

Team Services update – May 9

May 9, 2016 May 9, 2016 05/9/16
Brian Harry
We are in the process of wrapping up the deployment of our sprint 99 deliverables.  You can read the Team Services release notes here. There's a ton of new stuff in this sprint update but I'll just comment on a few.  Let's start with one of the oldest surviving UserVoice items - a checkbox control.  As you can see it was originally created ...

TFS 2015 Update 2.1 is available

May 6, 2016 May 6, 2016 05/6/16
Brian Harry
We have released Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 2.1. The KB article has a full list of included bugs fixed (updated from the list I posted on my blog a couple of weeks ago).  I haven't done a full cross reference but I listed 25 bug fixes in my post and the KB article includes 28 so I'm assuming we added 3 more fixes since my ...

Update on TFS 2015 Update 2.1

April 28, 2016 Apr 28, 2016 04/28/16
Brian Harry
Hmm, it's been a few days of reflection.  I don't think I expected my post on the bugs we were fixing in Update 2.1 to generate so many comments about other bugs that people are hitting.  Let me share some questions that have been on my mind and my thoughts on them... Why did I get so many bugs reported as comments on my blog? In the end, my...