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A new home for Visual Studio Hotfixes

April 19, 2008 Apr 19, 2008 04/19/08
Brian Harry
We've been publishing hotfixes for general download for a year or so now.  Although it has been reasonably popular, it never took off (in terms of publishing or downloads) the way I had hoped.  Part of the problem, I believe, is that the advertising/download solution we had was not very conducive to finding what you want.  We ...

April '08 DevDiv TFS Dogfood Statistics

April 15, 2008 Apr 15, 2008 04/15/08
Brian Harry
Due to my sabbatical, I missed the March Dogfood statistics.  In my absence, adoption has continued apace.  The team has been very busy making sure the server is behaving well and applying fixes when it is not. Looking at the graphs below, you can see that several of the statistics have really started to grow at dramatically higher ...

April '08 DevDiv TFS Dogfood Statistics

April 15, 2008 Apr 15, 2008 04/15/08
Brian Harry
Due to my sabbatical, I missed the March Dogfood statistics.  In my absence, adoption has continued apace.  The team has been very busy making sure the server is behaving well and applying fixes when it is not. Looking at the graphs below, you can see that several of the statistics have really started to grow at dramatically higher ...

New TFS Specs Available

April 15, 2008 Apr 15, 2008 04/15/08
Brian Harry
We continue in our effort to publish specs for features that are under development very early in the process so that we can incorporate your feedback before we are even done coding it.  We haven't published as many as I had hoped but we continue to emphasize the importance of it within the team and are starting to see some real momentum.&...

Updates to Team System Web Access

April 15, 2008 Apr 15, 2008 04/15/08
Brian Harry
A few days ago we released a couple of Community Technology Previews (CTPs) for the next release of Team System Web Access.  They include a set of new enhancements for the existing Team System Web Access UI and the promised additional capability to supplement the new TFS 2008 licensing policy that enables limited TFS access for the ...

Pictures of my farm

April 14, 2008 Apr 14, 2008 04/14/08
Brian Harry
My sabbatical is almost over.  I've got one week left.  But at the moment, I'm taking a sabbatical from my sabbatical :).  I'm in Redmond for the next two weeks to attend our MVP summit and some other important meetings.  After that I'll be back on the farm for a week and then back to work for good.  When I'm all done...

SOX Compliance with Team System

April 5, 2008 Apr 5, 2008 04/5/08
Brian Harry
I frequently get asked about how Team System can help with SOX compliance.  Unfortunately, the answer is not simple.  SOX relates to the management of transactions t hat affect assets and is undertaken with the help of a qualified appraiser who defines a risk management framework for your business.  Some of the risks man very ...

Update from the farm

March 31, 2008 Mar 31, 2008 03/31/08
Brian Harry
I finally went pretty much completely dark.  The first 2 or 3 weeks of doing email every morning and evening finally passed and I've been focusing 100% on the farm.  It's pretty much a 12 hour day 7 days a week.  It's been tiring but it's been fun.  The list of things I've gotten accomplished is long so I won't try to list ...

End of week #2 on the farm

March 11, 2008 Mar 11, 2008 03/11/08
Brian Harry
Since so many of you expressed a willingness to listen to me ramble about my sabbatical on the farm, I figured I would (at least a bit) :) Yesterday was the end of my second week.  The start got delayed a bit from what I was originally planning due to stuff I had to tie up at work.  My first big task has been to plant my orchard.&#...

End of week #2 on the farm

March 11, 2008 Mar 11, 2008 03/11/08
Brian Harry
Since so many of you expressed a willingness to listen to me ramble about my sabbatical on the farm, I figured I would (at least a bit) :) Yesterday was the end of my second week.  The start got delayed a bit from what I was originally planning due to stuff I had to tie up at work.  My first big task has been to plant my orchard.&#...