Brian Harry's Blog

Team Foundation Server Roadmap

November 30, 2006 Nov 30, 2006 11/30/06

Brian Harry

I've been hinting at this coming for while now.  I think I promised it would come out in Dec and here it is on the last day of Nov :).  I hope this is helpful to you in knowing where we are headed and also in giving us feedback on where we are missing the boat.  Please share with us any feedback you have.  We are working on...

MSDN Chats on VSTS

November 29, 2006 Nov 29, 2006 11/29/06

Brian Harry

We've been conducting fairly regular chats on VSTS.  They've been very lively and we've good participation.  The last one was November 8th and the transcript from it is here.  We've got another one coming up on December 6th at 10am PST.  Please join us if you are interested...

A New Team System User's Group in Boston

November 28, 2006 Nov 28, 2006 11/28/06

Brian Harry

It's really cool to see user's groups for Team System start to pop up around the country.  Michael just announced a new one in Boston.  I've offered to come up there and speak at it sometime in the spring.  If you know of more user's groups let me know, I'd love to build a list of them...

TFS and Reliability and Disaster Recovery

November 24, 2006 Nov 24, 2006 11/24/06

Brian Harry

We continue to evolve and improve upon the TFS reliability and disaster recovery story.  Fundamentally reliability and disaster recovery are about preserving service (or minimizing outage) and eliminating data loss in the face of failure in components of your system.  When we look at TFS component failure, we primarily focus on the...

TFS V1 is incompatible with WSS 3.0

November 22, 2006 Nov 22, 2006 11/22/06

Brian Harry

There seems to have been a fair number of questions on this issue so Jason Barile wrote something up about it on his blog.  We are working to add support for WSS 3.0 for the Orcas release of TFS.Brian...

SD Times Article about TFS

November 20, 2006 Nov 20, 2006 11/20/06

Brian Harry

SD Times recently posted an article about TFS (and about VS Orcas).  I’m only going to talk about the TFS part of it here and leave any thoughts on the broader VS and Vista comments to others to comment on.  I think it’s a good and balanced article. Both the good in the bad are captured in one quote in the ...

Wrap up on CTP feedback

November 19, 2006 Nov 19, 2006 11/19/06

Brian Harry

OK, I've digested the feedback from a variety of sources and want to play it back.  As with any sufficiently involved topic, I won't capture everything everyone said but rather I'm just trying to capture the recurring patterns. So what I've heard is: You like CTPs very much.  They provide a valuable way to get early insight into ...

Feedback on VS Community Technology Previews (CTPs)

November 9, 2006 Nov 9, 2006 11/9/06

Brian Harry

We recently had an internal email thread with some people on our advisory councils giving us feedback on our CTP process.  There was some interesting and somewhat surprising feedback.  I wanted to solicit broader feedback from the community on what you want from the CTP process.  Here's some questions to get you thinking about ...