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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a short post about the move of CodePlex from TFS 2008 to TFS 2010 and some of the benefits you’ll see from that.  Today, I want to drill a bit deeper into the infrastructure changes that went along with it and some additional benefits.  As you know making TFS more hosting friendly (whether it’s being hosted publicly o...

Just recently, a new tool called Scrat was released.  It enables migrating artifacts from HP Quality Center to TFS.  It is the most comprehensive tool I know of, handling Requirements, Bugs, Test Cases, Attachments, History and Links between items).  I haven’t had a chance to try it myself but I’ve known and worked with o...

We’ve just released a new version of the TFS Integration Platform.  This is the first “official, finished” release that contains the new synchronization architecture and adaptors for: Previous versions made available were “pre-release”.  We’ve been using the new tool kit for several...

A few weeks ago, I wrote a post about a moderately rare problem with upgrading from TFS 2005/2008 to TFS 20010.  Although the number of people affected is modest, the severity of the issue is bad enough that we decided to re-release all TFS images so that the upgrade fix is automatically included and no one who downloads new images will get &l...

My post on TFS updates a couple of weeks ago generated an internal discussion that resulted in the collection of all of the SQL and Windows updates we’ve had to apply to our Dogfood server to get it running well.  Now, you have to remember that our dogfood server runs at incredibly high scale and many of the issues we’ve hit are un...

My post on TFS updates a couple of weeks ago generated an internal discussion that resulted in the collection of all of the SQL and Windows updates we’ve had to apply to our Dogfood server to get it running well.  Now, you have to remember that our dogfood server runs at incredibly high scale and many of the issues we’ve hit are un...

I’ve heard numerous times from customers that getting MOSS configured properly to work with TFS 2010 in order to get the best dashboard and analytics experience is VERY difficult.  I have to say, I’ve done it myself a few times and there are a lot of steps and without a MOSS expert watching over my shoulder, I think I would have en...

I’ve heard numerous times from customers that getting MOSS configured properly to work with TFS 2010 in order to get the best dashboard and analytics experience is VERY difficult.  I have to say, I’ve done it myself a few times and there are a lot of steps and without a MOSS expert watching over my shoulder, I think I would have en...

There’s some exciting news about Visual Studio Lab Management today.  You may recall that when we released VS/TFS 2010, we declared the Lab Management capability to be “Release Candidate” quality rather then “Released” quality.  I’ve mentioned before that the reason for this was that we just hadn’t gotten enough customer feedback to feel really con...

In the last week, we completed the upgrade of all TFS servers in Codeplex to TFS 2010.  As part of this, we consolidated from 10 individual TFS 2008 servers to a single TFS 2010 load balanced farm.  This makes management of the service even better than before.  I’m really excited about this milestone in the internal deployment ...