November 2012 | Brian Harry's Blog

Visual Studio, TFS and the Egyptian elections

Brian HarryNovember 30, 2012Nov 30, 201211/30/12

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

Brian HarryNovember 29, 2012Nov 29, 201211/29/12

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

Brian HarryNovember 29, 2012Nov 29, 201211/29/12

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” It is not actually a problem with the database but ...

Visual Studio 2012 Update 1 is available

Brian HarryNovember 26, 2012Nov 26, 201211/26/12

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

Brian HarryNovember 19, 2012Nov 19, 201211/19/12

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

Brian HarryNovember 2, 2012Nov 2, 201211/2/12

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 ...

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