July 2007 | Brian Harry's Blog

Team System Web Access Power Tool Available!

Brian HarryJuly 30, 2007Jul 30, 200707/30/07

Today we released the first "official" power tool release of Team System Web Access. You can download it from here. Let me put this in context. When Microsoft first acquired DevBiz, we provided v1.0 of TeamPlain for download. Based on customer demand, we uploaded a preview of TeamPlain 2.0. ...

More VSTS chats coming

Brian HarryJuly 30, 2007Jul 30, 200707/30/07

With Beta 2 out the door now, we are having a new set of MSDN chats to talk about what's new and what's coming. Please join the product team! Following our recent tradition, we'll be having 2 chats at different times to accomodate people in different parts of the world. Join the chat on Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 from 10:00am - 11...

Help installing VS 2008 Beta 2

Brian HarryJuly 30, 2007Jul 30, 200707/30/07

I suspect many of you will be trying to install VS 2008 Beta 2 in the near future. If you run into any problems, you can go to the following MSDN forums to look for help. The setup team has committed to monitoring them closely as people get over the hump of getting it installed. Visual Studio Orcas Install and Setup http://forums....

New TFS offline support in Beta 2

Brian HarryJuly 30, 2007Jul 30, 200707/30/07

Matias did a very nice write up of the new TFS version control offline support that is now available in Beta 2. I thought it would be good to share it with you. He mentions one issue about having to close and reopen the solution - we are looking into that problem now. Overall, the offline experience for TFS in 2005 was not ...

Upgrading to Orcas Beta 2

Brian HarryJuly 27, 2007Jul 27, 200707/27/07

With Orcas Beta 2 now available, I'm starting to see questions about the upgrade process and the availability and interoperability of other components (that don't ship in the box with Orcas). Let me try to clear some of this up. VSTS Web Access - This is the new web UI (formerly TeamPlain) that we acquired a few months ago. ...

Orcas Beta 2 download URLs

Brian HarryJuly 26, 2007Jul 26, 200707/26/07

Here's a long list of download urls to help you quickly find what you need... All the downloads are live!!! Below are links to landing pages as well as individual SKU downloads: · Marketing launchpad http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/ · &...

Orcas Beta 2 is Available!

Brian HarryJuly 26, 2007Jul 26, 200707/26/07

Unfortunately, I don't have much time to write something up right now, but I wanted to let you know that Orcas Beta 2 is available today. You can download it here: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/default.aspx You can also read more about it on Soma's blog here: http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2007/07/26/announcing-the-...

An interesting Agile viewport into TFS

Brian HarryJuly 26, 2007Jul 26, 200707/26/07

David Anderson (who used to work on the MSF team here a Microsoft) continues to be a strong advocate of Agile development practices and has an interesting idea for how to manage a virtual whiteboard based on TFS work items. http://www.agilemanagement.net/Articles/Weblog/DigitalWhiteboardExperime.html Brian...

A Rosario Milestone

Brian HarryJuly 25, 2007Jul 25, 200707/25/07

Yesterday, we signed off on the release of the first CTP for our Rosario release of VSTS. Rosario, as you may recall, is the code name for the release of VSTS that will follow the VS/VSTS 2008 (Orcas) release. We have not (and will not soon) be announcing anticipated timelines for Rosario, so for now you'll have to be happy with ...

Finalized guidance published for WSS 3.0 support with TFS 2005

Brian HarryJuly 24, 2007Jul 24, 200707/24/07

Jeff Beehler blogged today about the final release of the WSS 3.0 guidance. It hasn't changed much from the "pre-release" version but has incorporated some feedback. If you have already successfully used the guidance, you are set. If not, you can check this out. Of course, Orcas is coming pretty soon and it has WSS 3.0 ...

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July 2007 | Brian Harry's Blog

Team System Web Access Power Tool Available!

More VSTS chats coming

Help installing VS 2008 Beta 2

New TFS offline support in Beta 2

Upgrading to Orcas Beta 2

Orcas Beta 2 download URLs

Orcas Beta 2 is Available!

An interesting Agile viewport into TFS

A Rosario Milestone

Finalized guidance published for WSS 3.0 support with TFS 2005

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