Brian Harry's Blog

Work item visualization

March 22, 2010 Mar 22, 2010 03/22/10

Brian Harry

One of our MVP, Jeff Levinson, has been hard at work on some tools to turn work item relationship information into DGML graphs that can then be viewed in the new architecture visualization tools.  He’s now put his work on CodePlex.  I recommend you check it out: http://visualization.codeplex.com/   Here’s a teaser ...

Work item visualization

March 22, 2010 Mar 22, 2010 03/22/10

Brian Harry

One of our MVP, Jeff Levinson, has been hard at work on some tools to turn work item relationship information into DGML graphs that can then be viewed in the new architecture visualization tools.  He’s now put his work on CodePlex.  I recommend you check it out: http://visualization.codeplex.com/   Here’s a teaser ...

Team Explorer 2005 update for interoperating with TFS 2010 is now available!

March 15, 2010 Mar 15, 2010 03/15/10

Brian Harry

This morning we delivered the final version of the patch to Team Explorer 2005 that enables it to work well with a TFS 2010 server.  Of course, it will also still work well against a 2005 or 2008 server.  You can download the update here:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=22215e4c-af6f-4e2f-96df-20e94d762689and...

Team Explorer 2005 update for interoperating with TFS 2010 is now available!

March 15, 2010 Mar 15, 2010 03/15/10

Brian Harry

This morning we delivered the final version of the patch to Team Explorer 2005 that enables it to work well with a TFS 2010 server.  Of course, it will also still work well against a 2005 or 2008 server.  You can download the update here:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=22215e4c-af6f-4e2f-96df-20e94d762689and...

Delays delivering mail alerts in TFS 2010

March 12, 2010 Mar 12, 2010 03/12/10

Brian Harry

I've seen a few people complain about longer delays delivering mail alerts in TFS 2010.  The reason is that, by default, we batch all notifications and process them every 2 minutes.  This was done to accomplish higher scale on very high volume servers.  In retrospect a 2 minute delay was not the best default.  We will look ...

TFS 2010 Installation and Upgrade success rates

March 12, 2010 Mar 12, 2010 03/12/10

Brian Harry

As I’ve discussed in the past, we work VERY hard in this release to really improve the ease of installing TFS.  We’ve done everything from making more components optional, reducing prereqs, configuring prereqs for you, providing better defaults, implementing better diagnostic checks, making configuration serviceable and more.  It...