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If you are a regular user of our Team Foundation Service - particularly during peak times, you've probably noticed that it hasn't been running as seamlessly as usual. Our recent issues started with our sprint 45 deployment that I wrote about here and foreshadowed here. In this post I want to give you some insights to what happened and w...
Today, we released our second update to Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012. You can read a fairly detailed post with all the new capabilities on the ALM blog. There’s a ton of new value in the in this update as evidenced by the long list of new features in that post. Roughly speaking, Update 2 is about the same si...
http://blogs.technet.com/b/microsoft_blog/archive/2013/03/26/announcing-build-2013.aspxBrian
Today, we released the results of Sprint 45 on Team Foundation Service. You can check out the release notes to learn more about today’s release. There were 2 basic areas of new capabilities on the service: Git Branch insights and Web based test execution UI. Both are nice improvements in usability and experience. You might n...
Saturday night I was at my son’s lacrosse game with the family. My wife got a phone call. It was a fellow farmer and neighbor, Noah (about 2 miles south of us). His question was “Are you missing a cow?” The answer, of course, was we didn’t know. Even if we had been home, counting ~100 cows turns out to be a lot harder than you’d think – the da...
A couple of days ago I announced the availability of VS/TFS 2012.2 CTP4. At that time I mentioned that there would be an update of our Visual Studio Git extensions to work with it. We released the Git extension update last night and you can read more about it in Matt’s and Andy’s blog post. We continue to push forward ...
We are continuing our journey to deliver a final release of Update 2. You can read about the CTP3 we shipped a few weeks ago here. The most notable thing about this CTP is that it is “go-live”. One of our big learnings from shipping Update 1 was that we really do need feedback from real customer deployments before we s...
Sprint 44 is done and has now been deployed to the service. You can read the release notes on the Team Foundation Service Portal to learn more about what’s in it. Maybe the biggest news is that the customizable swim lanes for kanban are live on the service now. Over all though, it was a sprint of just moving the ball forward...
Clearly yesterday was a bad day. Team Foundation Service was mostly down for approximately 9 hours. The underlying issue was an expired SSL certificate in Windows Azure storage. We use HTTPS to access Windows Azure storage, where we store source code files, Git repos, work item attachments and more. The expired certificate p...
Grant Holliday and friends just put out a new version of their excellent TFS book, now updated for TFS 2012. It’s worth having if you are really trying to understand the ins and outs of TFS. Learn more on Grant’s blog.Brian