Brian Harry's Blog

SD West and the Jolt Awards

March 23, 2007 Mar 23, 2007 03/23/07

Brian Harry

On Monday of this week I was in San Jose at the SD West conference to give a keynote.  I'm told that a couple of years ago we (Microsoft) gave a "marketing" keynote and the audience was extremely dissatisfied.  So I went in with a very different approach.  I did a talk on our experiences building TFS, a high scale enterprise ...

TFS Branching Guidance

March 22, 2007 Mar 22, 2007 03/22/07

Brian Harry

We get lots of questions about how to organize version control in TFS, particularly around branching.  We've wrtten a white paper describing branching approaches and best practices.  A lot of this is based on who we do it internally.  Jeff wrote a longer article on it than I'm planning to so I'll just point you at his blog ...

TFS 2005 & SQL Server 2005 SP2

March 21, 2007 Mar 21, 2007 03/21/07

Brian Harry

I've gotten a bunch of questions lately about whether or not TFS works with SQL SP2.  I confirmed today that all of our Microsoft production instances of TFS (about 15 of them) are running SQL 2005 SP2.  So I have pretty darned solid confirmation that it works well. Just wanted you to know in case you were wondering :) Brian...

Free TeamPrise License for CodePlex users

March 21, 2007 Mar 21, 2007 03/21/07

Brian Harry

It's great to see that TeamPrise has announced availability of a free license of their Eclipse and Unix/Mac TFS clients for accessing CodePlex.  This will expand the breadth of people who can conveniently participate in and contribute to CodePlex projects!  http://www.woodwardweb.com/teamprise/000339.html Brian...

Orcas Dogfood Upgrade – I/O Statistics Delayed

March 20, 2007 Mar 20, 2007 03/20/07

Brian Harry

We got some I/O statistics on Friday night.  Unfortunately it was not what I was looking for.  The version control drives were omitted from the collection and there was much less sproc analysis than I expected.  The ops team is going back to replan what analysis they are going to do and will try again.  I'll let you know ...

Orcas Dogfood Upgrade – CPU Utilization

March 16, 2007 Mar 16, 2007 03/16/07

Brian Harry

I think we've got enough data now that we can put a stake in the ground about where we stand on CPU utilization improvements.  We've still got a bit more tuning and improvements to make but it's probably within 10% of where it will turn out. We've made less progress investigating the regressions this week than I expected - too many other ...

March DevDiv Dogfood Statistics

March 13, 2007 Mar 13, 2007 03/13/07

Brian Harry

Time for the monthly installment again :)  I've been swamped lately and not able to make progress on my "Managing Quality" series.  I'll get back to that shortly. This is the first monthly dogfood statistics update since the upgrade of the DevDiv dogfood server on 3/3.  So, it’s going to be a bit longer than usual. Monday was ...

Dogfood Server Upgrade – End of Week 1

March 9, 2007 Mar 9, 2007 03/9/07

Brian Harry

The first week of the Orcas Dogfood server upgrade will end today.  It's been a fantastic (if hectic) week.  After the initial spate of issues we hit Monday, it quieted down pretty quickly.  We got the significant issues fixed on Tuesday and have been making small performance patches all week.  We're down to the last half ...

Visual Studio SP1 Refresh Releases!

March 7, 2007 Mar 7, 2007 03/7/07

Brian Harry

Yesterday we released VS 2005 SP1 refresh (this is what we have, in the past, called the Vista GDR).  Primarily it is a set of bug fixes to make VS 2005 work really well on Vista.  You can read more about it here:  http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/features/2007/mar07/03-06VisualStudio.mspx And you can download it here: http://...

DevDiv Dogfood Status Update

March 6, 2007 Mar 6, 2007 03/6/07

Brian Harry

The deployment of Orcas to the DevDiv dogfood server finished ahead of schedule this weekend.  We completed the procedure by Saturday night thanks to hard work from the IT team and key people on the TFS team assisting.  We spent Sunday shaking out a couple of issues with the system and went live for real early Monday.  As of ...