Brian Harry's Blog

TFS 2010 will not support SQL 2012

January 11, 2013 Jan 11, 2013 01/11/13

Brian Harry

With every release – of our product or a dependency, we think hard about the test/support matrix.  As we developed Team Foundation Server 2012, we decided to support both SQL 2008 R2 and SQL 2012 – due to the close release proximity.  TFS 2010, of course was released WAY before SQL 2012 and supported SQL 2008 and SQL 2008...

Renaming your Team Foundation Service account

January 9, 2013 Jan 9, 2013 01/9/13

Brian Harry

We’ve seen a growing cadre of people who created Team Foundation Service accounts and have decided they don’t like the name they chose.  So far this has required that you contact our support organization.  They would have to delete the account and then you could create a new one with the name you wanted – clearly not a ...

Git-TF 2.0.1 Released

January 8, 2013 Jan 8, 2013 01/8/13

Brian Harry

Today we shipped a new binary release of the Git-TF tools.  We did a deployment of the Team Foundation Service yesterday and one of the things that changed was the way that we do basic authentication.  We are currently doing some work to make talking to TFS easier, this will help people building clients for TFS – especially as ...

Team Foundation Service Update – Jan 7

January 7, 2013 Jan 7, 2013 01/7/13

Brian Harry

The results of our sprint 41 were deployed today.  You can read the news about them on the release notes. Because of the holidays it was a pretty modest sprint.  The biggest end user feature was making the new send work items via email feature work on the backlog as well as on work item queries.  We also did some work on our ...

Bugs in TFS Update 1

January 4, 2013 Jan 4, 2013 01/4/13

Brian Harry

I’ve posted here the list of bugs that we’ve found in our TFS 2012 Update 1.  We’ve got a hot fix in final testing now.  I’ll post a link as soon as it is available and we’ll be updating the Update 1 download pages to reference it.  Installing the patch will address all the known issues. The first 4...

Team Explorer Extensibility

January 2, 2013 Jan 2, 2013 01/2/13

Brian Harry

We redesigned the Team Explorer window in TFS 2012.  Previously, it was simple tree control with limited flexibility.  In 2012, we made it richer page navigation system that enables much more control over data presentation.  We’ve also received a bunch of feedback on things people don’t like about the redesign (like ...

Retrospective on TFS 2012 Update 1

January 2, 2013 Jan 2, 2013 01/2/13

Brian Harry

In late November I made a tour of a few cities in Europe, speaking about VS/TFS 2012 and application lifecycle management.  One of the talks I gave a couple of times was about how we are managing our new release cadence.  We are shipping a service every 3 weeks and a new on premises server/client roughly every 3 months.  I ...