How to purchase VS Online

August 27, 2014 Aug 27, 2014 08/27/14

Brian Harry

Brian Keller interviewed James Rice (he's on our business team) for Channel 9 about how to purchase Visual Studio Online.  This may clear up any uncertainty you have. https://aka.ms/HowToBuyVSO   Brian  ...

Stakeholder license is live

August 27, 2014 Aug 27, 2014 08/27/14

Brian Harry

About 6 weeks ago, I announced a plan to make some licensing changes to VS Online and Team Foundation Server that would make it easier for more people to participate in the development process.  A few weeks ago, we did part 1 by enabling Test Hub access for VS Online Advanced licenses.  Today we have completed step 2 by enabling the ...

Sending email to a Team Room

August 26, 2014 Aug 26, 2014 08/26/14

Brian Harry

Here's a very cool way to use our new VS Online extensibility (that will be available in TFS V.Next) to enable sending an email to a Team Room.  Our new REST, OAuth and Service Hooks support can be used in countless creative ways. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/slange/archive/2014/08/26/send-email-to-a-team-room-with-vso-service-hooks-and-zapier...

Visual Studio Online Update – Aug 18th

August 19, 2014 Aug 19, 2014 08/19/14

Brian Harry

Yesterday I rolled out the release notes for our sprint 69 deployment.  Check out the updates! P.S. the outage we had last Thursday was *not* caused by the rollout of updates (or, at best only tangentially so).  I’m hoping to get the outage retrospective written up tomorrow. Brian...

VS Online outage last week

August 18, 2014 Aug 18, 2014 08/18/14

Brian Harry

Let me start by apologizing for the pretty horrific outage we had last week.  I’ve been silent on it because I was on a “last family vacation” in Europe before my oldest son goes off to college.  Buck Hodges and others have been working hard on it.  I’ve been reading up on everything that happened and ...