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The end of my humiliation is near?

June 12, 2007 Jun 12, 2007 06/12/07
Brian Harry
Well, I've been doing everything I could to hide from my humiliation that was the install experience around TFS SP1.  As you'll recall, the underlying problem was that the way it "quiesced" (deactivated) the server was not appropriate.  It didn't work for servers that were in the process of being used.  It didn't work for ...

Announcing Team Foundation Server <-> Project Server connector

June 11, 2007 Jun 11, 2007 06/11/07
Brian Harry
Today we are announcing the availability of a connector between TFS 2005 and Project Server 2007.  The goal of Team System is to conect together all of the people involved in software development projects and provide them the information they need, when they need it to make better decisions faster.  Since the initial release of TFS ...

Dry spell

June 4, 2007 Jun 4, 2007 06/4/07
Brian Harry
It's been a bit of a blogging dry spell for me the last couple of weeks and I think it's going to continue to be for a bit longer.  Sorry about that.  It's just been really hectic.  In a moment of insanity, I agreed to help someone work on a CodePlex project to hook TFS up to FrontPage server extensions so that you can use ...

TFS Best Practices

May 24, 2007 May 24, 2007 05/24/07
Brian Harry
The Microsoft Patterns and Practices team, in concert with the TFS team and a panel of customer reviewer has just released a terrific document on TFS Best Practices.  This is distinct from the TFS help on MSDN in the sense that it is not "How-to" guidance but is conceptual information and recommendations for how to use TFS to fit ...

SnagIt! integration with TFS

May 24, 2007 May 24, 2007 05/24/07
Brian Harry
I just got mail from TechSmith - makers of SnagIt! that they have added support for Team System.  Being an occasional user of SnagIt! myself, I tried it out on our dogfood server and it worked like a charm.  SnagIt! allows you to take screenshots and then automatically create a bug with the screenshot attached at the click of a ...

May DevDiv Dogfood Statistics

May 16, 2007 May 16, 2007 05/16/07
Brian Harry
It's been a pretty uneventful month on our Dogfood server.  I almost decided not to post about it but I figured what the heck.  The most exciting thing is that we have our Orcas Beta 2 dogfood server upgrade happening this weekend.  This should be an indication to you that we think our Orcas Beta 2 server is approaching ready.&...

Work Item Creator is now on CodePlex

May 15, 2007 May 15, 2007 05/15/07
Brian Harry
I mentioned this tool a month or two ago.  It's a cool tool that allows hierarchical organization of work items and other relationship management.  You can find the project here. These are pretty common feature requests and a big area of focus for us in our Rosario release.  Here is a screen shot on the UI portion of the tool: (...

Replaying your Orcas Beta 1 feedback

May 14, 2007 May 14, 2007 05/14/07
Brian Harry
OK, I've now processed all of the feedback and written one-off responses to many of the specific questions. I appologize if I missed any.  I want to thank all of you who took the time to provide feedback.  It is tremendously appreciated and the best way I know of for us to learn and get better. Here I will summarize and play back ...

What's up with Orcas Beta 1?

May 10, 2007 May 10, 2007 05/10/07
Brian Harry
We released Orcas Beta 1 a few weeks ago now and I'm really surprised at how little feedback I've heard.  I'm curious what's going on.  Are people too busy to mess with it?  Has releasing all of the CTPs ahead of time taken the excitment out of playing with the Beta?  Is it so unbelievably good that you are stunned into ...

Teamprise announces a Java SDK for Team Foundation Server

May 9, 2007 May 9, 2007 05/9/07
Brian Harry
Yesterday Teamprise announced the availability of a Java SDK for building TFS based applications.  You can read about it here: http://www.teamprise.com/news/2007/05/teamprise_announces_java_sdk_f.html  Availability is targeted for later this year. They seem to be taking the same approach we took.  They had to build a set of APIs...