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A new New York City VSTS user group

September 2, 2008 Sep 2, 2008 09/2/08
Brian Harry
I've heard there's a new VSTS user group forming in New York City.  If you are interested in checking it out, see if you can attend their first meeting on Sept 30th, 6:30 - 8:00 at the NYC Microsoft office.  You can read more about it here: http://nyc-vsts-ug.com/ or here if you don't have/want Silverlight: https://www.clicktoattend....

Team System Web Access update released!

September 2, 2008 Sep 2, 2008 09/2/08
Brian Harry
On Saturday, we released an updated version of Team System Web Access.  You will find the download here:  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3ECD00BA-972B-4120-A8D5-3D38311893DE&displaylang=en I wrote an extensive post about it with screenshots a few months ago so I won't repeat it.  The changes since ...

Team System Web Access update released!

September 2, 2008 Sep 2, 2008 09/2/08
Brian Harry
On Saturday, we released an updated version of Team System Web Access.  You will find the download here:  http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3ECD00BA-972B-4120-A8D5-3D38311893DE&displaylang=en I wrote an extensive post about it with screenshots a few months ago so I won't repeat it.  The changes since ...

TFS & FQDN problems

August 19, 2008 Aug 19, 2008 08/19/08
Brian Harry
I've seen a rash of reports lately with people having problems with TFS when configured to use a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN).  There are certain extranet scenarios when you need to configure TFS this way.  The problem has been isolated to a change in Windows 2003 SP1. The symptom is error messages that look like the following ...

New TFS Sidekicks release available

August 18, 2008 Aug 18, 2008 08/18/08
Brian Harry
I've been remiss in my blogging responsibilities for the past few weeks - sorry about that.  Between summer vacations, work travel and a new power tool I'm working on, I've just haven't been able to find any time to blog.  In my job, I don't get to spend a ton to time coding - too many other things to do.  But I decided to take ...

More things to know about installing SP1

August 12, 2008 Aug 12, 2008 08/12/08
Brian Harry
I'll let this post be a running list of issues that I hear about as people try installing SP1.  So far I've heard mostly good things about the installation process but a few problems as well.  Here's a few things to know: 1) If you get a Windows Update prompt to reboot during SP1 installation, ignore it (don't reboot).  Wait ...

More things to know about installing SP1

August 12, 2008 Aug 12, 2008 08/12/08
Brian Harry
I'll let this post be a running list of issues that I hear about as people try installing SP1.  So far I've heard mostly good things about the installation process but a few problems as well.  Here's a few things to know: 1) If you get a Windows Update prompt to reboot during SP1 installation, ignore it (don't reboot).  Wait ...

VS/VSTS/TFS/.NET 3.5 SP1 is shipping!

August 11, 2008 Aug 11, 2008 08/11/08
Brian Harry
Following on the release last week of SQLServer 2008, we are proud to announce the release of Visual Studio/Visual Studio Team System 2008 SP1, Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 and the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.  You can download them here.  Bootstrappers are for online installs and iso is if you want to download the whole thing and ...

VS/VSTS/TFS/.NET 3.5 SP1 is shipping!

August 11, 2008 Aug 11, 2008 08/11/08
Brian Harry
Following on the release last week of SQLServer 2008, we are proud to announce the release of Visual Studio/Visual Studio Team System 2008 SP1, Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 and the .NET Framework 3.5 SP1.  You can download them here.  Bootstrappers are for online installs and iso is if you want to download the whole thing and ...

Blogging about testing

July 28, 2008 Jul 28, 2008 07/28/08
Brian Harry
With our Rosario release, we are entering the software quality tools market in an even more serious way than we are today.  You've heard me talk before about the "pillars" of the Rosario release and one of them being - Testing and Application Quality. Several months ago, we had a new guy join our organization.  His name is James...