I recently got a recommendation from someone to check out "TFS Data Manager" from OnePulse. It was described as "Phenomenal". I've taken a few minutes to browse their web site and what I see looks very good. They are solving a bunch of problems customers ask about often - moving projects between servers, back up and restore of ind...
It's been on my mind recently to talk about some of the assumptions and pre-requisites that are going to exist for the Rosario release of Team Foundation Server. The main reason is to make sure people have plenty of time to prepare for it. It's still going to be a while before this information is actionable but I just want to make sure ...
In all of the hectic activity of the last couple of months I missed a couple of important partner announcements. Two (at least, I may find more I've missed yet) partners have released support for Team System in the past couple of months. VersionOne - VersionOne is one of the leading Agile project management tools in the market. In ...
I apologize. I'm about a month late in getting out this announcement and promised I'd announce it as soon as it happened :( It just slipped through the cracks of a very busy summer (I was on vacation at the beach the week it released :)). The eScrum process template for Microsoft Team Foundation Server has been updated. You can do...
I've seen quite a lot of people having problems with and ultimately abandoning use of the Migration Toolkit and the TFS to TFS migration tool over the past year or so. In my mind, there are two categories of reasons for this 1) People are expecting the tool (particularly the TFS to TFS tool) to solve a problem that it does not solve and 2) Th...
A couple of our MVPs have hatched an interesting idea. They are starting a "virtual" Team System users group. The advantage is that they can pull people from disparate locations (both members and presenters). The disadvantage, obviously, is that it's less personal. It seems to me like it has got great potential to serve as a...
Well, I let it happen again :(. It's been over two months since my last report on this and my blog has gone sadly quiet in general. As I'd mentioned before, it's been an unbelievably busy summer but I think I'm finally coming out of it. With luck you'll see quite a few posts this week and then my stream of 3 or 4 a week resume. I...
Last week we announced that Microsoft has joined the OMG. Over the past year or so, you've probably seen Microsoft talking more and more about modeling as a key technology for business processes and application development. At Tech Ed this summer, we did a demo in the keynote and BillG talked about how important a role modeling will play.&nbs...
