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Team Explorer Everywhere Update 1

December 19, 2012 Dec 19, 2012 12/19/12
Brian Harry
I recently posted about the Team Foundation Server Update 1 release alongside Visual Studio Update 1, but I also wanted to take some time to call out that we also shipped Update 1 of Team Explorer Everywhere on the same day. There has been a version of our Eclipse and cross-platform tooling available to support every version of Team Foundation...

Sidekicks is available for TFS 2012

December 12, 2012 Dec 12, 2012 12/12/12
Brian Harry
Attrice has now updated their Sidekicks to support TFS 2012.  Read more here: http://www.attrice.info/blog/2012/12/06/team-foundation-sidekicks-for-2012-available/Brian...

Team Foundation Service Update – Dec 10

December 10, 2012 Dec 10, 2012 12/10/12
Brian Harry
Today we deployed our sprint 40 update to the Team Foundation Service.  You can read more about it on the release notes. We continued to make progress adding valuable components to the build images.  We have two significant issues with our build images at the moment and both will be solved in the same way.  First, we don’t ...

TFS 2012 Management Pack Available

December 10, 2012 Dec 10, 2012 12/10/12
Brian Harry
We have just about finished shipping the 2012 versions of all of the various pieces that complement Team Foundation Server.  Last week we shipped the SCOM management pack for TFS 2012.  It works with System Center Operations Manager 2007 SP1 and 2012.  We didn’t add any major new features to it but rather updated it to ...

Visual Studio, TFS and the Egyptian elections

November 30, 2012 Nov 30, 2012 11/30/12
Brian Harry
A little over a year ago, I was contacted by someone responsible for helping the new Egyptian government build the software necessary to run their first elections.  It was clearly a profound time for the country and for the world.  They took the responsibility of having robust, trustworthy and event free elections very seriously. ...

New Power Tools for Update 1 are available

November 29, 2012 Nov 29, 2012 11/29/12
Brian Harry
Today we shipped updated TFS 2012 Power Tools for Update 1.  The team worked hard to ship the Power Tools update very close to the official release of VS/TFS update 1 and this is the first time we’ve ever accomplished in the same week.  Congrats the the people involved. There aren’t very many change but a few valuable ...

Confirmed hiccup upgrading build agents with Update 1

November 29, 2012 Nov 29, 2012 11/29/12
Brian Harry
We have identified and issue (I’ve seen 2 customer reports) where users get an error configuring build agents after installing TFS 2012 Update 1.  The error will say “TF30040: The database is not correctly configured.  Contact your Team Foundation Server administrator” (image) It is not actually a problem with the database ...

Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 is available

November 26, 2012 Nov 26, 2012 11/26/12
Brian Harry
UPDATE Nov-29 We've confirmed a report of an issue that can occur during upgrades.  It's not serious but you will want to read here for more details: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2012/11/29/confirmed-hiccup-upgrading-build-agents-with-update-1.aspx Read more about it on Soma’s blog.  You can easily get it through the ...

Team Foundation Service Update – Nov 19th

November 19, 2012 Nov 19, 2012 11/19/12
Brian Harry
Sprint 39 is now done and deployed.  As always, you can see the latest on the service on the service release notes: http://tfs.visualstudio.com/en-us/home/news/ Sprint 39 was another modest release.  We went through a pretty big reorganization after VS 2012 shipped and it has taken a couple of months to get all of the new teams ...

Git-TF 2.0 update available

November 2, 2012 Nov 2, 2012 11/2/12
Brian Harry
Yesterday, we released our second major version of Git-TF.  To refresh your memory, Git-TF allows developers to use Git locally and “sync-up” with a central TFS server.  It’s a particularly nice way to, for example, enable integrated version control is XCode but still participate in a team working with TFS. This ...