May 2011 | Brian Harry's Blog

Growing TFS databases

Brian HarryMay 31, 2011May 31, 201105/31/11

I’ve seen a few reports lately of TFS customers whose databases were growing very rapidly. After investigation, it has often turned out to be that they were uploading a lot of large attachments to TFS as part of their testing process and then not cleaning them up when they were no longer needed. Our testing tools can upload ...

TFS and Project Server resources

Brian HarryMay 24, 2011May 24, 201105/24/11

We’re gradually adding to the resources available to understand what you can do with Team Foundation Server and Project Server using the Team Foundation Server and Project Server Integration Feature Pack to manage enterprise development projects. Here are 4 new online videos demonstrating various scenarios: Here’s ...

Update on TFS on Azure

Brian HarryMay 18, 2011May 18, 201105/18/11

It’s been a while since I last talked about our work on TFS on Azure and I’ve been feeling like it’s time to give some kind of an update. We made a bunch of new ALM announcements about our ALM roadmap at TechEd and we didn’t say too much about hosted TFS, so you may be wondering what we’ve been up to. We&...

Connecting Development and Operations

Brian HarryMay 17, 2011May 17, 201105/17/11

For the last year or so I’ve been giving talks about trends in software development and particularly ALM. I’ve described one of the big upcoming trends as the need for better collaboration between development and operations. The state of that collaboration today is not great even given our current technology stacks. ...

ALM Futures announced at TechEd yesterday

Brian HarryMay 17, 2011May 17, 201105/17/11

Yesterday was a big day for us! In his keynote at TechEd yesterday Jason Zander gave an overview of our ALM roadmap. In a follow up session Cameron Skinner did more of a deep dive, demonstrating many of the new features coming in the next version. You can read a really good overview here on Jason’s blog: http://blogs....

Announcing a Java SDK for TFS

Brian HarryMay 16, 2011May 16, 201105/16/11

From the beginning, extensibility of TFS was a core design principle – both to enable great 3rd party partners (like Ekobit, Urban Turtle, InCycle and more) and because almost all development shops have a need to customize the tools they use. As such we’ve provided a .NET library for interacting with and extending TFS from day one.&#...

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