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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 ...

Today at VSLive!, Jason Zander announced a new Visual Studio product called LightSwitch.  It’s been in the works for quite some time now, as you might imagine.  Beta 1 of LightSwitch will be available on August 23rd – I’ll post again with a link as soon as I have it.  You can check out this link to learn more: http:...

I suspect I’m eventually going to get bored with posting about the doc updates every month :)  But, I think it’s really cool that the doc team is now updating the online docs every month.  I’ve gotten a number of very positive customer comments on how much they appreciate the new vigor with which new content is coming ou...

On July 21st, we hit another important milestone in adoption of TFS within Developer Division. If you’ve followed my blog over the years, you know that our own use of TFS is an important part of our process of ensuring the product is a great product.  We first started using it in 2004 and have gradually been increasing the scope and magn...

This is a heads up that we have some important servicing things happening.  Within the next few weeks we’ll be releasing: #1 is critical to be aware of and deal with.  There is a QFE available today (see the blog post above for a link) and we are working hard on the setup refresh. #2 contains some nice fixes (like reinstati...

A couple of weeks ago we released a new set of administrative reports for managing the TFS data warehouse.  This is more than most customers will ever need but if you are running a large TFS installation (particularly if you are hosting a TFS installation for multiple constituents) these reports can provide valuable insight into the status of ...

A couple of weeks ago we released a new set of administrative reports for managing the TFS data warehouse.  This is more than most customers will ever need but if you are running a large TFS installation (particularly if you are hosting a TFS installation for multiple constituents) these reports can provide valuable insight into the status of ...

And simultaneous with the release of the final Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 template, Pyxis announced, with a cute blog post, the availabilty of Urban Turtle Team Web Access add-on that provides a Scrum task board.  I've played with pre-release versions of the Urban Turtle tool and I recommend it.  It's a nice tool!Brian