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Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays, …

I hope the holidays are treating you well.  We've just finished opening presents at my house and the kids are all bouncing off the walls with joy.  As I said in my last post, it's been a busy holiday season and I haven't had much time to post.  After the new year, things should return a little bit more to normal. In the mean ...

Busy as I can Be

Sorry for the light blogging lately.  It's been busy the past couple of weeks and it's not looking like it will be less so until after the holidays.  I spent two weeks in Europe in late Nov visiting customers, partners and attending Tech Ed.  It was a terrific trip and a great opportunity to understand the challenges people are ...

Visual Studio Team System Promotions

I wanted to give you an early peek at some great Team System cost savings opportunities.  The marketing campaign around it hasn't started yet, but we are introducing a host of promotional Visual Studio and Team System price breaks to encourage people to try out new options.  There are 5 offers in the slate: Team Suite, Team ...

Visual Studio Team System Promotions

I wanted to give you an early peek at some great Team System cost savings opportunities.  The marketing campaign around it hasn't started yet, but we are introducing a host of promotional Visual Studio and Team System price breaks to encourage people to try out new options.  There are 5 offers in the slate: Team Suite, Team ...

System Center 2007 Management Pack for TFS 2008 is available!

I know it's been a long time coming and we've had quite a few false starts but it is finally available.  Not a week goes by that someone doesn't check with me on when they could get it so I know there's a fair number of people out there waiting for it.  We've been piloting it with a couple of customers for a couple of months now and ...

VSTS 2008 Database Professional GDR Ships!

The long awaited update for VSTS 2008 Database professional is now available.  You may have been following the many pre-releases (CTPs, RCs, etc).  This is the final update. The biggest new feature in this update is support for SQLServer 2008 but there's a great deal more.  Among my favorite are support for offline database ...

A new TFS add-on from Teamprise

Teamprise has released a new TFS add-on called Teamprise Remote Accelerator.  It is a solution similar to the TFS proxy but is designed for single user remote scenarios.  It functions exactly like a TFS proxy but can easily be run on your local client and polls the server to "prefetch" files so that they are already local whenever ...

Coolest Team System Gadget

A couple of months ago, I mentioned that one of our MVPs (Mike Azocar) was running a "Coolest Team System Gadget" contest.  He has just announced the winner of the contest: Mathew Rowan for TFS Working On, a tool to help you track the time you spend on tasks.  The tool is availble on CodePlex here: http://www.codeplex.com/...

Coolest Team System Gadget

A couple of months ago, I mentioned that one of our MVPs (Mike Azocar) was running a "Coolest Team System Gadget" contest.  He has just announced the winner of the contest: Mathew Rowan for TFS Working On, a tool to help you track the time you spend on tasks.  The tool is availble on CodePlex here: http://www.codeplex.com/...

Community Translations of Team System Web Access

A few months ago some of our MVPs expressed interest in creating some translations of Team System Web Access.  We looked into it and concluded that enabling it would be pretty straight forward and seemed like a great way to experiment with a new way of interacting with the community.  Thus was born the TSWA Community Translation ...