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VS Team Services Update – April 13

April 13, 2016 Apr 13, 2016 04/13/16
Brian Harry
This week we are deploying our sprint 98 work to Visual Studio Team Services.  You can read the release notes for details of what's included. From time to time, I like to cross reference the work we are releasing with UserVoice to make sure we are actually making progress on the top requests from our users.  It's good to see that we knocked ...

Team Services and TFS Roadmap update – Apr 2016

April 13, 2016 Apr 13, 2016 04/13/16
Brian Harry
Today, we refreshed the roadmap for Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server.  We've retired the items that were scheduled for Q1/Update 2, updated the items scheduled for Q2 and added the plan for Q3. We completed a significant majority of the things we planned to.  A few things did not complete in Q1 and have been rescheduled...

VS2015 Update 2 and TFS 2015 Update 2 have shipped

March 31, 2016 Mar 31, 2016 03/31/16
Brian Harry
Yesterday, at the //Build/ conference, we announced the final release of Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 and Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 2.  You can learn more at the following links: We also released an early preview of Visual Studio “15”.  We will not be releasing a preview of TFS “15” at this time.  List with the 2015 ...

Introducing Application Insights Analytics

March 28, 2016 Mar 28, 2016 03/28/16
Brian Harry
Last month, in a post, I wrote about a VS Team Services outage, I mentioned (and showed some results from) a new tool we've been working on that we internally call "Kusto".  We've now made a preview of Kusto publicly available as "Application Insights Analytics". Kusto is a phenomenal tool.  I can't say enough good stuff about it.  I can ...

Team Services extension for VS Code

March 25, 2016 Mar 25, 2016 03/25/16
Brian Harry
Today we shipped a VS Code extension for working with VS Team Services.  The new extension includes status bar indicators and a list of VC Code commands for common operations.  You can read more on our blog post. (image) Brian...

Ratings and reviews in the VS Marketplace

March 23, 2016 Mar 23, 2016 03/23/16
Brian Harry
As of this morning, we now have ratings and reviews in the VS Marketplace!  This will allow you to comment on your favorite (or least favorite) extensions and to see what other people are saying when choosing an extension. You can see a 5 star rating on each tile and at the bottom of each extension details page, you will see a list of reviews...

SOC compliance certification for VS Team Services

March 21, 2016 Mar 21, 2016 03/21/16
Brian Harry
We take the protection of customer data very seriously and work hard to ensure your data is safe and that we comply with expected policies in all the regions in which we operate. Earlier this month we took another important step towards meeting the compliance needs of our customers by completing the Service Organization Controls certifications...

10th anniversary of Team Foundation Server

March 17, 2016 Mar 17, 2016 03/17/16
Brian Harry
Today marks the 10th anniversary of the day we shipped the first version of TFS - TFS 2005.  It doesn't seem that long ago but we sure have come a long way.  The other day I recorded a Radio TFS interview with Martin Woodward and Greg Duncan.  Check it out if you are interested.  I have to admit I haven't listened to it.  I never listen ...

VS Team Services Update – March 3

March 8, 2016 Mar 8, 2016 03/8/16
Brian Harry
We just completed our sprint 96 deployment and everyone should now have all the new capabilities.  You can read more about what's new in the VS Team Services Release notes.  This was a particularly plentiful sprint - with updates across most of the product - Agile planning, testing, Git, package management, gated checking support for TFVC in...