Brian Harry's Blog

System Center 2007 Management Pack for TFS 2008 is available!

November 27, 2008 Nov 27, 2008 11/27/08

Brian Harry

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 ...

A new TFS add-on from Teamprise

November 21, 2008 Nov 21, 2008 11/21/08

Brian Harry

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

November 18, 2008 Nov 18, 2008 11/18/08

Brian Harry

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

November 18, 2008 Nov 18, 2008 11/18/08

Brian Harry

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

November 17, 2008 Nov 17, 2008 11/17/08

Brian Harry

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 ...

Community Translations of Team System Web Access

November 17, 2008 Nov 17, 2008 11/17/08

Brian Harry

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 ...

Extending the new TFS Team Members Power Tool

November 13, 2008 Nov 13, 2008 11/13/08

Brian Harry

The October release of the Team Foundation Power Tools includes a new feature called "Team Members" that allows you to collaborate with your team even better.  One of the features is integration with instant messaging that allows you to see presence, IM, video, audio, etc from inside Team Explorer.  You can read more about the ...

Extending the new TFS Team Members Power Tool

November 13, 2008 Nov 13, 2008 11/13/08

Brian Harry

The October release of the Team Foundation Power Tools includes a new feature called "Team Members" that allows you to collaborate with your team even better.  One of the features is integration with instant messaging that allows you to see presence, IM, video, audio, etc from inside Team Explorer.  You can read more about the ...

Common Oct '08 TFS Power Tools Questions

November 10, 2008 Nov 10, 2008 11/10/08

Brian Harry

This post is going to be my periodically updated list of answers to questions/problems that I hear about.  I'll get right to it... Last updated 12/2/08 1) Login problems with the TFS Windows Shell Extension - Right now the shell extension only supports contact TFS with your default Windows credentials (using integrated authentication).&...