Everything you want to know about Azure DevOps and Farming
February 28, 2007Feb 28, 200702/28/07An MS field group in Canada is putting together a series of web casts on VSTS to try to address areas of commonly asked questions (starting with licensing – one of the most commonly asked :)). Here’s a blog post from Adam on the schedule –
February 27, 2007Feb 27, 200702/27/07We receive a lot of quality feedback directly from customers and we use that information help direct our investments in bug fixing and testing. One of the tools we use to collect customer feedback is called “Dr. Watson”. All of our applications are instrumented to observe any unexpected condition –
February 24, 2007Feb 24, 200702/24/07We’ve now got 4 recent TFS Channel 9 videos posted on MSDN. They are interviews with various team members across the TFS team. They are:
Branching 101 with Doug Neumann – Visual Studio Team Foundation Server
Doug is one of the two group program managers on TFS and is responsible for Version Control,
February 23, 2007Feb 23, 200702/23/07I went on vacation for a few days this week and lo and behold while I’m gone the team has released our next version of the TFS Power Tools (formerly Power Toys). We’ve numbered it Version 1.2 but I prefer to refer to it as the Feb ’07 release.
February 15, 2007Feb 15, 200702/15/07I frequently hear requests from customers for case studies that demonstrate the return on investment (ROI) of adopting Team System. We’ve just completed a couple and posted them on MSDN. Here are the two new ROI case studies:
Global ManufacturerA global manufacturer deployed Microsoft Visual Studio Team System to improve the consistency and efficiency of internal software development,enabling it to support adoption of the widely recognized Capability Maturity Model for software development.
February 11, 2007Feb 11, 200702/11/07The goal of our stress testing is to run an application under load for an extended period of time and capture all “failures”. The purpose is to uncover race conditions, long term resource leaks, and bugs that only occur as the result of unexpected sequences or combinations of operations.
February 8, 2007Feb 8, 200702/8/07For a while now I’ve been seeing people struggling with some TFS SP1 install issues and I’ve been silent about it for too long. I was waiting for my team to investigate the issues and compile a summary. I appologize for not speaking up about it sooner.
February 8, 2007Feb 8, 200702/8/07Overall, it’s been a pretty uneventful month for the dogfood server. The biggest milestone is that we are now consistently over 1,000 active users on the system. Files & Folders are approaching the 100M mark and should hit it within the next few months for sure.
February 6, 2007Feb 6, 200702/6/07If you read my blog much, then you know performance and scale are near and dear to my heart. If you read back far enough in my blog, you’ll find a bunch of information on my philosphy of performance testing and what we’ve done for TFS.
February 5, 2007Feb 5, 200702/5/07We continue to make progress testing TFS for the upcoming Daylight Savings Time changes. In an earlier post, I included details and links to information about the change and its affect on other Microsoft software. Our testing has uncovered the following 2 issues.
