Brian Harry's Blog

Round One of Channel 9 Videos is Done

April 30, 2007 Apr 30, 2007 04/30/07

Brian Harry

We've recently published the last couple of the first round of Channel 9 videos that Brian Keller taped a few months ago.  Read about it on Brian's blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/briankel/archive/2007/04/26/more-channel-9-interviews-with-the-team-foundation-server-team.aspx Check out the full list here: https://channel9.msdn.com/tags/...

Team Project and Branching Guidance

April 30, 2007 Apr 30, 2007 04/30/07

Brian Harry

Among the most common questions I hear about TFS are "How do I structure my Team Projects?" and "How do I organize my branches?"  Clearly both are very related questions.  We've put together some whitepapers to help give some people some guidance on both questions.  You'll find the umbrella whitepaper here: http://www.codeplex....

Update on our upcomming Team System Chat

April 27, 2007 Apr 27, 2007 04/27/07

Brian Harry

We've decided to add another Team System Chat today at a time that is more convenient for our Asian customers.  It's probably still not perfect but should help.  The additional chat will be on Friday, April 27th, 2007 from 4:00pm - 5:00pm Pacific Time. Add to Calendar | Additional Time Zones Based on participation level, we'll decide...

A new TFS Sidekick release from Attrice

April 24, 2007 Apr 24, 2007 04/24/07

Brian Harry

Our friends at Attrice have released version 1.3 of their TFS Sidekicks tools.  These tools are great add-ons to TFS that add great functionality to Team Explorer.  This new version includes a "shelvesets sidekick" and improvements to the labels sidekick.  Download it and check it out.Brian...

Upcoming MSDN Chat on VSTS

April 24, 2007 Apr 24, 2007 04/24/07

Brian Harry

Join us for a live chat on Friday 4/27 from 10:00am - 11:00am PDT.  The products groups will be on hand to answer any questions you have about Team System.  This is the first chat since Orcas Beta 1 was released.  Come and find out the latest news.  Sadly I won't be able to be there this time as I will be on an airplane on ...

Migration and Synchronization Toolkit Prerelease

April 22, 2007 Apr 22, 2007 04/22/07

Brian Harry

For the past 6 or 9 months we've been working on something we call the Migration & Synchronization toolkit.  It is a framework for building tools that either convert from other systems to TFS or synchronize other systems with TFS.  We frequently think about it as a platform for building tools to migrate from alternative tools - ...

First TFS Best Practices Analyzer Success

April 19, 2007 Apr 19, 2007 04/19/07

Brian Harry

We've been working for the past several months on a new Power Tool - a TFS Best Practices Analyzer.  The goal of this tool is to diagnose TFS configuration and operation problems quickly and easily.  As you probably know, TFS is a pretty complex installation and has many places where things can go wrong. We released the first version...