It’s been a while now since I have an overall look at the adoption of TFS at Microsoft. I decided to go ahead and do it this month even though some of the numbers (particularly active users) are a bit skewed by the recent holidays. Regardless, there’s some good data here. One big milestone that we passed recently is more than 50,0...
It’s been a while now since I have an overall look at the adoption of TFS at Microsoft. I decided to go ahead and do it this month even though some of the numbers (particularly active users) are a bit skewed by the recent holidays. Regardless, there’s some good data here. One big milestone that we passed recently is more than 50,0...
It has been a long time since I updated you on DevDiv TFS dogfood usage statistics. Sorry about that - it was a very busy fall. The last update was in September so the deltas in the numbers below reflect changes since then. As you can see usage in most respects continues to grow at a pretty substantial rate. We've adde...
A portion of our very security conscious customers want to be able to configure their TFS server to require client certificates. Client certificates allow an additional level of security on top of user name and password that ensures that the computer terminal being used has security clearance - through a cryptographic certificate. The f...
**UPDATE** This post is now obsolete. Check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/bb840033.aspx for more info on integration solutions. I see a fair number of customers where the development team uses TFS but the QA team uses HP Quality Center. There has been a growing interest in interoperatbility between TFS and Quality Cen...
**UPDATE** This post is now obsolete. Check out http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/bb840033.aspx for more info on integration solutions. I see a fair number of customers where the development team uses TFS but the QA team uses HP Quality Center. There has been a growing interest in interoperatbility between TFS and Quality Cen...
We had a new program manager join the TFS team several months ago and the first job we gave him was combing through all the the customer cases reporting problems installing or configuring TFS to understand them and make recommendations on how to avoid/eliminate them. One of the outputs of his investigations is a new Troubleshooting Insta...
I'd like to introduce you to Amit Chatterjee. He is my peer in VSTS and is responsible for the VSTS testing products. He has recently decided to join the blogosphere to talk about the products his team is building and how they are trying to address the problems people face with testing. I'm sure he'd be very interested in hearing ...
