Managing the Developer Division Dogfood instance of Team Foundation Server is always a real challenge. The server is so big and has so many users and those users impose so much load that it has been a continuous effort to understand the performance of the system and to figure out how to improve it. In this effort, we have created a set ...
For at least 2 years I (and others) have complained that our Team System web site on MSDN was stale, hard to navigate, incomplete and more. Finally, several months ago, we made the decision to hire a web site manager to give us a web site we could be proud of. She's been working hard on cleaning it up. The first phase was to reorg...
Within the last couple of weeks, we released an important update to the Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 Power Tool. The update includes only one change and it fixes a significant security issue that we discovered. I'm not going to describe it in detail, for obvious reasons, however, I encourage anyone who had previously installed TSWA 2...
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...
