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 Iterations o...
Another month, a lot more growth. We continue the process of onboarding teams and growing the data. Here's the updated data for August and (now that I'm using a decent blog editing tool) I can start including some cool graphs in these posts :) Users Work items Version control Commands (last 7 days) ...
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" fix...
This blog post has been replaced by: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2006/10/04/Last-word-on-TFS-Expirations-2800_I-hope_2900.aspx I have removed tha attached utility from this post as it is out of date.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 impe...
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 number a...
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 day y...
Our IT operations team put together a whitepaper here Deploying Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server as an Enterprise-Wide Service Technical Case Study that describes how they have rolled out the TFS service offering here at Microsoft. It describes how one team provides TFS projects to any product group in Microsoft that wants to us...
Holy Toledo! The growth in data on our dogfood server just isn't slowing down. The file count (in particular) is really rocketing. We're now over 33 million (yes, million) files and I don't see any evidence that it's going to slow down soon. A while ago, I predicted that we'd hit 100 million this year - I'm now starting to w...
VSTS Training Material Over the past several months I've been hearing a lot of people asking about the availability of training for Team Foundation Server. I've heard it from end users who are working on their adoption plans and from training partners who want to add a VSTS offering to their repetoire. I'm pleased to let you k...
The biggest area of growth in the last month is in work item tracking activity. The reason is that we hooked up a mirror between our "old" work item tracking system and TFS. This means that changes in each system is being replicated into the other. This has added some additional load to the server (although the increment is fairly...
