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Another TFS success story

August 31, 2006 Aug 31, 2006 08/31/06

Brian Harry

Here's a great post from someone who had some success with TFS and advocates using a team development system no matter what kind of project you are doing... http://asterland.spaces.live.com/Blog/cns!34D9D1C17F9DBFD8!209.entry Brian...

TFS Proxy Testimonial

August 30, 2006 Aug 30, 2006 08/30/06

Brian Harry

Martin Woodward has posted a cool article on his blog with his experiences setting up a TFS proxy server and the results he got with it: http://www.woodwardweb.com/vsts/000273.htmlBrian...

Exporting Areas and Iterations

August 28, 2006 Aug 28, 2006 08/28/06

Brian Harry

A couple of days ago someone asked me how to export the areas and iterations from one project and be able to use them as a template to create other projects.  Creating a set of pre-defined Areas & Iterations is a feature of the TFS process templates.  In this post I've included a sample to show how to export the Areas and ...

An important milestone for TFS training

August 26, 2006 Aug 26, 2006 08/26/06

Brian Harry

This week we held what we call our "Beta Teach" of our 300 level training material in Chicago.  A "Beta Teach" is when we think we have all of the content ready and we bring in a group of people (in this case, about 20) and actually teach a class.  The goal is to figure out if the content is really ready and make any last minute "bug...

More Expirations Coming Soon…

August 23, 2006 Aug 23, 2006 08/23/06

Brian Harry

This blog post has been replaced by: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2006/10/04/Last-word-on-TFS-Expirations-2800_I-hope_2900.aspx I have removed tha attached utility from this post as it is out of date.  Please see the post above for a newer version. Brian ---------------------  A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the...

Microsoft's Team Foundation Server Deployment Topology

August 22, 2006 Aug 22, 2006 08/22/06

Brian Harry

Given how much I talk about our internal "dogfooding" of TFS on this blog, I thought you might be interested in seeing a diagram of what our internal deployment actually looks like.  This diagram was put together by our IT department a couple of weeks ago.  It shows the basic network topology, regions we have servers and the ...

TFS Trial Edition and Release Candidate Expirations

August 8, 2006 Aug 8, 2006 08/8/06

Brian Harry

We are rapidly approaching 6 months since TFS released. Yeah, that's right - Isn't it amazing how time flies?  I've started to see a rash of emails from people who are discovering that their TFS trial Edition and Release Candidate installs are expiring. I'm sad to say that you don't get any warning that this is about to happen.  One ...