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TFS 2015 Installation guidance

August 27, 2015 Aug 27, 2015 08/27/15
Brian Harry
At least once or twice a week, I’m getting questions about where the TFS 2015 installation guidance is.  We’re not doing well with search engines on that apparently.  We’re going to see if we can do better but, in the mean time, here’s the link just in case you stumble across my blog :)Installing Team ...

TFS 2015 Power Tools are available

August 27, 2015 Aug 27, 2015 08/27/15
Brian Harry
Today we released the TFS 2015 Power Tools that accompany VS 2015 and TFS 2015.  The landing page that link points to includes lots of info about compatibility, changes, etc.Sorry it took a bit longer to get these out than we expected.Brian...

Visual Studio Online Update – Aug 26th

August 27, 2015 Aug 27, 2015 08/27/15
Brian Harry
This week we are rolling out our sprint 87 work.  Nothing earth shattering this sprint but some nice project management improvements.  Also we’ve added first class SonarQube support now with custom tasks for executing SonarQube and publishing the results for your build.  You can read more on this week’s VSO release ...

Visual Studio Online Update – Aug 7th

August 10, 2015 Aug 10, 2015 08/10/15
Brian Harry
This week we are rolling out our Sprint 86 work.  You can read details on the VSO release notes.  Included is the next set of work to improve our Agile planning experiences and availability of a NuGet package for our TFS/VSO SDK.  The NuGet package is a big step forward in making it easier to work with.  You no longer have ...

Team Foundation Server 2015 Final Release

August 6, 2015 Aug 6, 2015 08/6/15
Brian Harry
Today we released the final version of Team Foundation Server 2015.  TFS 2015 is a major step forward, with tons of improvements throughout the development process but with special emphasis on DevOps capabilities. Here are all of the TFS 2015 related downloads.  Look under Visual Studio 2015 for things like Test Professional, ...

Included CALs and Tiered Pricing

July 27, 2015 Jul 27, 2015 07/27/15
Brian Harry
I have to say that when I wrote my post last week on TFS and VSO related licensing and packaging changes, I didn’t think I’d be writing another one quite so soon.  But I found out that we’re disclosing the next set of changes this week to help people plan, even though they don’t go into effect for another month. ...

Self forming teams at scale

July 24, 2015 Jul 24, 2015 07/24/15
Brian Harry
I want to share with you all a strange thing that we do.  It’s unorthodox but has been very successful for us. Teams change.  People come.  People go.  People move around.  Reorgs happen.  This is a fact of life, particularly in any large organization, and something managers spend a fair amount of time on – ...

Visual Studio 2012 Update 5 RC Available

July 21, 2015 Jul 21, 2015 07/21/15
Brian Harry
As part of the 2015 wave of releases, in addition to the 2015 products and a 2013 Update 5, we are also releasing a VS 2012 Update 5 (not one for TFS 2012 though).  This Update includes a few bug fixes.  The most notable, from my perspective, are some changes to make using VS 2012 with a TFS or VS Online Team Project that gets ...

Licensing and packaging changes for TFS 2015

July 21, 2015 Jul 21, 2015 07/21/15
Brian Harry
Over the past year, we have been working to simplify licensing for Team Foundation Server and make things as straight forward as possible for customers to adopt it. This has included changes like the introduction of the Stakeholder plan for broad access to work items within the organization, simplifications to release management to eliminate ...