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Dec 13, 2013
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What are “Off-times”?

Brian Harry
Brian Harry

I got called out in email, I think reasonably appropriately, for using the term “off-times” when referring to choosing a better time to do our sprintly upgrades.  In a 24x7 continuous service world, there really is no such thing as a “good” time to have a problem.  I’ve written in the past about the extensive lengths to which we’ve ...

VSOnlineTFService
Dec 12, 2013
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Visual Studio Online Update – Dec 11

Brian Harry
Brian Harry

Today we did our last deployment of 2013 (Sprint 57).  You can read about it here: http://visualstudio.com/en-us/news/2013-dec-11-vso Our next deployment would normally fall very close to the Christmas holiday and to avoid that, we’ll be skipping the Sprint 58 deployment and just rolling all of that work into the Sprint 59 deployment in ...

VSOnlineTFService
Dec 9, 2013
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Visual Studio 2013.1 RC is Available

Brian Harry
Brian Harry

We are doing a pretty quick turn of the crank on VS 2013 Update 1.  Originally we were thinking our first Update would take a little longer but for a variety of reasons (most prominently the feedback about VS supporting versions of IE before IE 10), we decided to do a quick initial Update focused on just some key bug fixes.  Our first ...

Visual Studio
Dec 2, 2013
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Load Testing VSOnline/TFS

Brian Harry
Brian Harry

Ed Glas, Bill Barnett and Jiange Sun published a detailed write up of their experiences load testing VSOnline/TFS.  It’s a good read because they go into a lot of the reasons for the things they do and also talk about things they’ve tried that didn’t work.  They’ve now moved almost all of their load testing to the ...

TFSVisual StudioVSOnline
Nov 27, 2013
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Another silly post about clothes

Brian Harry
Brian Harry

And an embarrassing moment. I’ve gotten some teasing about wearing a tie at the French Visual Studio 2013 launch event in Paris this week.  There are some pictures of me floating around online.  It’s certainly a rare occurrence.  I don’t wear a tie more than a couple of times a year.  I brought it on this trip...

Personal
Nov 26, 2013
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Visual Studio 2013 Demo VM available

Brian Harry
Brian Harry

Brian Keller has released the RTM version of his incredibly useful demo VM.  He loads just about everything you could want to demo onto it and makes it easy to see how anything in VS or TFS works. Read more: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/briankel/archive/2013/08/02/visual-studio-2013-application-lifecycle-management-virtual-machine-and-hands-on-labs...

TFSVisual Studio
Nov 26, 2013
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Visual Studio Surveys

Brian Harry
Brian Harry

We are running a couple of surveys on Visual Studio to collect feedback for our next release cycle.  We’d appreciate any feedback you have.  Here are the links to the surveys on the VS blog. Thanks, Brian...

Visual Studio
Nov 25, 2013
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A Rough Patch

Brian Harry
Brian Harry

Either I’m going to get increasingly good at apologizing to fewer and fewer people or we’re going to get better at this.  I vote for the later. We’ve had some issues with the service over the past week and a half.  I feel terrible about it and I can’t apologize enough.  It’s the biggest incident we’ve had since the instability ...

VSOnline
Nov 20, 2013
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How much data can you put on VSOnline?

Brian Harry
Brian Harry

I don’t get asked that question too often but I do occasionally and, as the service matures, I know I’ll get asked it more and more so it’s been on my mind.  I was looking at some data yesterday about some of our largest tenants.  No, I wasn’t looking at any of their IP (I can’t) but I was looking at some ...

VSOnline
Nov 18, 2013
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Application Insights going fast

Brian Harry
Brian Harry

Overall, tire kicking on Application Insights is going well and the invitation codes continue to get used up pretty quickly.  We’ve now got many hundreds of accounts enabled so I’m probably going to slow down a bit on handing out invitation codes.  But… Here’s another one for another opportunity: ...

VSOnline