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Team System Web Access Overview

August 1, 2007 Aug 1, 2007 08/1/07
Brian Harry
Someone asked me to publish a brief write up VSTS Web Access along with screen shots.  It seemed like a good idea, so here you go... VSTS Web Access is a Web UI to a portion of the Team Foundation Server functionality.  Over time I expect it to grow beyond what we think of as TFS today.  It serves a few purposes: VSTS Web ...

TechEd South Africa

August 1, 2007 Aug 1, 2007 08/1/07
Brian Harry
For that subset of you for whom it is relevant, It looks like I'm going to be at TechEd South Africa this year.  It's October 21st to the 24th.  I'm still finalizing plans but expect to be doing a couple of talks on TFS and VSTS.  I've never been to the African continent before and am really looking forward to seeing it.  ...

Team System Web Access Power Tool Available!

July 30, 2007 Jul 30, 2007 07/30/07
Brian Harry
Today we released the first "official" power tool release of Team System Web Access.  You can download it from here.   Let me put this in context.  When Microsoft first acquired DevBiz, we provided v1.0 of TeamPlain for download.  Based on customer demand, we uploaded a preview of TeamPlain 2.0.  ...

More VSTS chats coming

July 30, 2007 Jul 30, 2007 07/30/07
Brian Harry
With Beta 2 out the door now, we are having a new set of MSDN chats to talk about what's new and what's coming.  Please join the product team!  Following our recent tradition, we'll be having 2 chats at different times to accomodate people in different parts of the world. Join the chat on Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 from 10:00am - 11...

New TFS offline support in Beta 2

July 30, 2007 Jul 30, 2007 07/30/07
Brian Harry
Matias did a very nice write up of the new TFS version control offline support that is now available in Beta 2.  I thought it would be good to share it with you.  He mentions one issue about having to close and reopen the solution - we are looking into that problem now.  Overall, the offline experience for TFS in 2005 was not ...

Upgrading to Orcas Beta 2

July 27, 2007 Jul 27, 2007 07/27/07
Brian Harry
With Orcas Beta 2 now available, I'm starting to see questions about the upgrade process and the availability and interoperability of other components (that don't ship in the box with Orcas).  Let me try to clear some of this up. VSTS Web Access - This is the new web UI (formerly TeamPlain) that we acquired a few months ago.  ...

Orcas Beta 2 download URLs

July 26, 2007 Jul 26, 2007 07/26/07
Brian Harry
Here's a long list of download urls to help you quickly find what you need... All the downloads are live!!! Below are links to landing pages as well as individual SKU downloads:   ·         Marketing launchpad http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/   ·    &...

Orcas Beta 2 is Available!

July 26, 2007 Jul 26, 2007 07/26/07
Brian Harry
Unfortunately, I don't have much time to write something up right now, but I wanted to let you know that Orcas Beta 2 is available today.  You can download it here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx You can also read more about it on Soma's blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2007/07/26/announcing-the-...

An interesting Agile viewport into TFS

July 26, 2007 Jul 26, 2007 07/26/07
Brian Harry
David Anderson (who used to work on the MSF team here a Microsoft) continues to be a strong advocate of Agile development practices and has an interesting idea for how to manage a virtual whiteboard based on TFS work items.  http://www.agilemanagement.net/Articles/Weblog/DigitalWhiteboardExperime.html Brian...

A Rosario Milestone

July 25, 2007 Jul 25, 2007 07/25/07
Brian Harry
Yesterday, we signed off on the release of the first CTP for our Rosario release of VSTS.  Rosario, as you may recall, is the code name for the release of VSTS that will follow the VS/VSTS 2008 (Orcas) release.  We have not (and will not soon) be announcing anticipated timelines for Rosario, so for now you'll have to be happy with ...