Brian Harry's Blog

Recent TFS add-ons

May 31, 2009 May 31, 2009 05/31/09

Brian Harry

Fairly often people send me pointers to new Team System/TFS tools and releases.  I try not to blog about each and every one but rather batch them up and then occasionally do a summary post about the new ones I've heard about.  Some of them are free and some of them are paid.  This is the next installment in that series... ...

VS 2005 support for TFS 2010

May 28, 2009 May 28, 2009 05/28/09

Brian Harry

A few weeks ago I wrote a blog post talking about some of our TFS 2010 feature set – I’m referring to the one on Admin & Setup. In that post I talked about compatibility and supported dependency versions. One of the things that I mentioned was that we would be supporting VS 2008 clients through an update to the Team Explorer ...

The Microsoft SDL Process Template and the Future

May 21, 2009 May 21, 2009 05/21/09

Brian Harry

I’ve seen a flurry of feedback since I announced the Microsoft SDL template.  I’d summarize much of that feedback as “We don’t want a single template that results in secure code development.  We use a variety of templates and we want all of our development to be secure.”  I couldn’t agree more...

The Microsoft SDL Process Template and the Future

May 21, 2009 May 21, 2009 05/21/09

Brian Harry

I’ve seen a flurry of feedback since I announced the Microsoft SDL template.  I’d summarize much of that feedback as “We don’t want a single template that results in secure code development.  We use a variety of templates and we want all of our development to be secure.”  I couldn’t agree more...

Upgrading a TFS 2008 server to TFS 2010 Beta 1

May 20, 2009 May 20, 2009 05/20/09

Brian Harry

I don't expect too many of you will try this given that this is a Beta 1 release and there's no broad go-live license or support associated with it, but for those of you out there that are interested, I've got some useful information for you.  Upgrading a TFS 2008 server to TFS 2010 Beta 1 should work (upgrading TFS 2005 won't work until ...

Conchango's SCRUM for Team System support for VSTS 2010

May 20, 2009 May 20, 2009 05/20/09

Brian Harry

Conchango (EMC) is working on an update for their popular SCRUM template for Team System to enhance it for VSTS 2010.  You can read about their plans here: http://blogs.conchango.com/stuartpreston/archive/2009/05/19/scrum-for-team-system-v3-0-plans.aspxBrian...

TFS 2010 Project Management

May 19, 2009 May 19, 2009 05/19/09

Brian Harry

This is the second in the set of 3 TFS 2010 feature posts around project management.  The first was on Work Item Tracking enhancements.  This one is on general project management improvements that I can’t fit into a category :)  And the third will be on Reporting improvements – with a focus on report authoring/customization...