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VS Team Services incidents on Feb 3 & 4

February 5, 2016 Feb 5, 2016 02/5/16
Brian Harry
We had two serious availability incidents in the past 2 days.  I'm incredibly sorry for the problems that these have caused.  Increasingly we are bringing on more and more customers who rely on this service day in and day out and any significant interruption is entirely unacceptable.  We know it.  We live it.  We breath it and, in the ...

Package Management now available in Europe and Australia

February 5, 2016 Feb 5, 2016 02/5/16
Brian Harry
When we first released the Package Management preview in November, it was only available in the US - If your VS Team Services account was in some region other than the US, installing the Package Management extension would fail.  This week, we deployed Package Management instances in Australia and Europe (which are the only other two regions...

Update Blog software

February 2, 2016 Feb 2, 2016 02/2/16
Brian Harry
For months the team has been working on migrating our msdn blogs off of the "old" blogging system we used onto WordPress.  In the last few days, my blog was migrated and is now running on WordPress.  The system we had been using had gotten pretty out of date and clunky.  I haven't used WordPress a lot but it generally has a good reputation ...

VS Team Services Update – Jan 25th

January 27, 2016 Jan 27, 2016 01/27/16
Brian Harry
This week we are deploying the changes from sprints 93 and 94 (they spanned Christmas/New Years so we combined them into a single deployment.  You can read the release notes for all the details.As usual, as I write this, the updates have not yet made it to all tenants but they will over the next day or two.This deployment has an unusually...

Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team Services roadmap update

January 11, 2016 Jan 11, 2016 01/11/16
Anisha Pindoria
Today we are making a major update to our “Features Timeline” for TFS and VSTS. To remind you, the Features Timeline provides an indication of some of the bigger, higher demand things we are working on and when we think they will be delivered – both on premises in TFS and in the cloud in VSTS (formerly VS Online). A few caveats… It ...