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 appl...
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
Recently we've been discussing CTPs and you have given us some great feedback about what you like and don't like. We'll be using that feedback inform our future plans. I'd like to talk to you about another form of transparency we've been working on - publishing specifications. CTPs are great and they provide a good opportunity to ...
I’m a bit early with my statistics this month but I didn’t want to get too close to Thanksgiving. Activity is down this month (particularly in work item tracking) but # of users is up. The primary reason is some fixes to internal tools that have dropped the load they apply on the server by almost a factor of 10. D...
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 article:&n...
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: Have I captured the key feedback? Is there anything important that I missed...
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 it: ...
Sorry for the late notice but we are having a Team System Chat tomorrow and I'm hoping lots of people will be there. The last one about a month ago was a record with something like 200 questions in 1 hour. I'll be there and happy to answer (as best I can) any questions you have. So, if you've got anything you want to know come on ...
One of the big complaints we've gotten from customers trying to build a Continuous Integration or similar automated build and test system with VSTS has been around the difficulty of authoring and maintaining the test lists that identify what tests to run as part of the build process. Buck has come to the rescue and provided a new msbuild task that ...
I just got mail informing me that Attrice has released a new version of their TFS add-on called TFS Sidekick. It is a VS plugin that adds some interesting new features, including... You can find out more info about it here. And you can download it from here. I've already passed some feedback on to the authors. Feel free to do...
