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This includes: The VS Beta also includes the features formerly known as Team System role SKUS.  Very shortly I’ll be writing a post on the packaging changes we are making to combine and simplify the VS/VSTS products. MSDN subscribers can download Beta 2 today (It will be available to the rest of the world on Wednesday). https://msdn.micros...

A new version of the TeamCompanion for Outlook product that provides integration of TFS work items into your Outlook experience has just been released.  I've heard a log of great things about TeamCompanion from customers.  If you are looking for a better way to manage all of your work and communication centrally in one UI, check it o...

I've seen a lot of questions lately about synchronizing one TFS server with another.  I think the heightened interest in this scenario has been brought on by the announcement of the TFS Basic installation option.  People are starting to think of new and cool ways they can use TFS and they want to be able to synchronize them with their "ce...

I've posted over the past several months about the great advances we've made in the TFS installation experience.  As we start to wrap up work on TFS 2010, we're starting to think about the future (beyond 2010 :)).  One of the things that has interested me for a while is the notion of virtual appliances.  I've been wondering how many ...

TFS Beta 2 is just around the corner and it's going to be the first pre-release with a "go-live" license.  This means that we'll support customers putting it into production and we'll ensure upgrades from Beta 2 to RTM work so you don't lose any data. Brian Keller wrote a great post about preparing for putting TFS into production: http://blogs...

A few months ago, the Microsoft SDL team released their SDL Process Template for VSTS 2008. When I blogged about the release, a number of you responded back to me that you wanted to have something like this that you could add to your existing team projects to make all of your development secure.After we discussed this internally, the SDL Team went ...

The SDL team here at Microsoft released a couple of new tools recently to help development teams verify the security of their software before they ship. BinScope Binary Analyzer and MiniFuzz File Fuzzer are both being offered as free downloads. The team took the time to make sure that both tools work as stand-alone tools as well as integrated into ...

We started building SourceSafe in January 1992 in the vacated dining room of the house belonging to one of my partners.  Within a couple of short years SourceSafe went from concept to major success and was acquired by Microsoft in 1994, soon after which it became the most widely used version control system in the world.  The thing that wa...

It's pretty well known that Teamprise provides a TFS client that allow access to TFS from Mac, Unix (and Windows).  Their client includes Eclpse integration, a stand-alone explorer and a command-line clent.  What's not well known is that they are currently working on mainframe support as well.  Pretty soon you'll be able to access TF...

As you probably know from my blog that dogfooding (using the product ourselves) is a very important part of our development cycle.  We like to use the product early and often and make sure we understand what it's going to be like for our customers. This have been a pretty big undertaking for TFS.  If you've watched my blog over the years,...