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Update on adoption of TFS at Microsoft

July 24, 2007 Jul 24, 2007 07/24/07
Brian Harry
Our internal adoption team produced an update on our status this week and I thought I'd share the results with you.    We're now up to 21 TFS instances in production, hosting a total of 734 projects about 5,600 users.  2 of those instances are running an Orcas Beta 2 build.  3 are running a very early build of Rosario...

SR1 of VSTS for Database Professionals released

July 24, 2007 Jul 24, 2007 07/24/07
Brian Harry
Yesterday we released a servicing release for VSTS database role product.  The improvements include: • Cross-database referencesSupport is improved to enable you to reference objects in different databases by using database project references or referencing a database metafile (.dbmeta). This support will reduce or eliminate the ...

Cool checkin policy

July 17, 2007 Jul 17, 2007 07/17/07
Brian Harry
Someone forwarded this link to me the other day.  We get requests fairly often for a checkin policy that enforces comments.  Often enough that we released one as part of our Power Tools a few months ago.  However, this one looks better than ours.  I haven't played with it but it looks good.  I thought I'd pass it along...

Orcas and Team Projects

July 6, 2007 Jul 6, 2007 07/6/07
Brian Harry
One of the concerns I hear pretty frequently is about the number of Team Projects that a TFS server will support.  Bill Essary wrote an extensive paper a while back on what limits TFS has, why and what behavior you will see as you approach and exceed the "limits". Tackling this problem was not one of our objectives in Orcas.  We've ...

Cool tool for requirements test coverage

July 3, 2007 Jul 3, 2007 07/3/07
Brian Harry
A few days ago someone forwarded me some links to a tool for determining test coverage (code coverage) on requirements rather than assemblies, classes and methods (which VSTS provides out of the box).  I finally got a chance to look over it today.  It looks pretty cool.  I have to admit I'm a bit skeptical about annotating every...

Reminder – MSDN Chat today

July 3, 2007 Jul 3, 2007 07/3/07
Brian Harry
I wanted to remind everyone that we have 2 MSDN chats with the Team System team today.  The first is at 10:00am pacific time and the second at 4:00pm pacific time.  I will definitely be at the first but may not make the second as it is at 7:00pm eastern time (where I am).  See this post for more details.Brian...

TFS Migration and Synchronization Toolkit is Available!

July 2, 2007 Jul 2, 2007 07/2/07
Brian Harry
Last week we released the "final" version of the TFS Migration & Synchronization Toolkit.  I say "final" because nothing is ever final (particularly when we provide source and put it on CodePlex :)). The toolkit is designed to make it easy to do both 1 way and bidirectional synchronization of work item tracking and version control ...