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Finalized guidance published for WSS 3.0 support with TFS 2005

July 24, 2007 Jul 24, 2007 07/24/07
Brian Harry
Jeff Beehler blogged today about the final release of the WSS 3.0 guidance.  It hasn't changed much from the "pre-release" version but has incorporated some feedback.  If you have already successfully used the guidance, you are set.  If not, you can check this out.  Of course, Orcas is coming pretty soon and it has WSS 3.0 ...

Update on adoption of TFS at Microsoft

July 24, 2007 Jul 24, 2007 07/24/07
Brian Harry
Our internal adoption team produced an update on our status this week and I thought I'd share the results with you.    We're now up to 21 TFS instances in production, hosting a total of 734 projects about 5,600 users.  2 of those instances are running an Orcas Beta 2 build.  3 are running a very early build of Rosario...

Cool checkin policy

July 17, 2007 Jul 17, 2007 07/17/07
Brian Harry
Someone forwarded this link to me the other day.  We get requests fairly often for a checkin policy that enforces comments.  Often enough that we released one as part of our Power Tools a few months ago.  However, this one looks better than ours.  I haven't played with it but it looks good.  I thought I'd pass it along...

Orcas and Team Projects

July 6, 2007 Jul 6, 2007 07/6/07
Brian Harry
One of the concerns I hear pretty frequently is about the number of Team Projects that a TFS server will support.  Bill Essary wrote an extensive paper a while back on what limits TFS has, why and what behavior you will see as you approach and exceed the "limits". Tackling this problem was not one of our objectives in Orcas.  We've ...

Cool tool for requirements test coverage

July 3, 2007 Jul 3, 2007 07/3/07
Brian Harry
A few days ago someone forwarded me some links to a tool for determining test coverage (code coverage) on requirements rather than assemblies, classes and methods (which VSTS provides out of the box).  I finally got a chance to look over it today.  It looks pretty cool.  I have to admit I'm a bit skeptical about annotating every...

Reminder – MSDN Chat today

July 3, 2007 Jul 3, 2007 07/3/07
Brian Harry
I wanted to remind everyone that we have 2 MSDN chats with the Team System team today.  The first is at 10:00am pacific time and the second at 4:00pm pacific time.  I will definitely be at the first but may not make the second as it is at 7:00pm eastern time (where I am).  See this post for more details.Brian...

June DevDiv Dogfood Statistics

June 20, 2007 Jun 20, 2007 06/20/07
Brian Harry
Orcas Beta 2 has been deployed on our dogfood server for about a month now and has been running quite well with very few patches.  We've been focusing primarily on cleaning up the event log and making sure we fix any bugs generating event log entries, making appropriate eventlog entries clear and actionable and removing spurious ones. I ...

Team System product group chats on July 3rd

June 20, 2007 Jun 20, 2007 06/20/07
Brian Harry
The next set of Team System chats with the product group will be on July 3rd.  We're continuing the new tradition of 2 chats at different times to help accomodate people in different timezones around the world. Join the chat on Tuesday, July 3rd , 2007 from 10:00am - 11:00am Pacific Time. Add to Calendar | Additional Time Zones  &...

Using Subversion clients with Team Foundation Server

June 18, 2007 Jun 18, 2007 06/18/07
Brian Harry
There a new and very interesting project on CodePlex today.  It's a "bridge" that allows Subversion clients (like TortoiseSVN) to work against a TFS server.  This project has been created by the team that develops CodePlex itself due to the popularity of Subversion clients.  This bridge works at the protocol level by ...

Updated Quiescing patch released

June 15, 2007 Jun 15, 2007 06/15/07
Brian Harry
We're now one step closer to the end of my humiliation :)  The updated quiescing patch has now been released and is available for all to use.  It should address many of the issues people have had with installing TFS 2005 SP1.  If you've already successfully installed SP1, you don't need to go back and mess with it, but you ...