Brian Harry's Blog

Everything you want to know about Azure DevOps and Farming

2015 - Page 5 of 6 - Brian Harry's Blog

VS Online Update – April 27th

April 27, 2015 Apr 27, 2015 04/27/15
Brian Harry
This week we are rolling out our Sprint 81 work.  3 instances have been updated so far and the remaining 3 will update over the next couple of days – so, as usual, you may not see the changes immediately. This update comes close on the heels of the last one.  We just finished the sprint 80 update only a week ago.  It was ...

First TFS 2015 RC production upgrade I know of

April 27, 2015 Apr 27, 2015 04/27/15
Brian Harry
I got the first customer report of a production upgrade to the TFS 2015 release candidate today.  Understand, we haven’t released it yet but we gave an early copy to our MVPs to give us final feedback on.  One of our MVPs reported that he upgraded a customer with a 9GB team project collection (not terribly large, obviously), ...

Team Project Rename available on VS Online

April 24, 2015 Apr 24, 2015 04/24/15
Brian Harry
Today we enabled Team Project rename on all VS Online accounts.  Team Project rename is our #1 User Voice request, by far and the longest standing customer complaint. (image) 6,156 votes and 178 comments later, it’s here (both on VSO – today and in the TFS 2015 RC – available shortly).  I know it’s been a long time coming...

TFVC & Git support

April 21, 2015 Apr 21, 2015 04/21/15
Brian Harry
I got a question on a blog post about differences in TFVC and Git support in TFS and VS Online.  Here’s a link to the question for context: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2015/03/12/the-future-of-team-foundation-version-control.aspx#10608301 I can’t answer in a comment with reasonable formatting so I’ll answer in...

VS Online Update – April 10th

April 13, 2015 Apr 13, 2015 04/13/15
Brian Harry
We are deploying our sprint 80 results this week.  You can read the release notes on visualstudio.com.  There are some very nice improvements for both the Agile tooling and Git.   This is an unusual deployment.  First it's delayed a week and second it's going to take a couple of weeks before all the instances of VS Online ...

Ever want to create bugs from email?

March 30, 2015 Mar 30, 2015 03/30/15
Brian Harry
Someone recently posted an open source copy of a popular internal tool called Mail2Bug. https://github.com/microsoft/mail2bug It will automatically create bugs from an email and then keep the bug up to date with any further conversation that happens on the email thread.  It works for both VS Online and TFS but requires that you use ...

The future of Team Foundation Version control

March 12, 2015 Mar 12, 2015 03/12/15
Brian Harry
I've written about this before but it keeps coming back.  From time to time I get the question "Is TFVC dead?"  I guess I have to just keep answering it.  No, it is not. We added support for Git in TFS 2013 so that we'd support the best centralized version control system and the best dvcs in the industry.  We've been ...

Visual Studio Online Update – Mar 10

March 12, 2015 Mar 12, 2015 03/12/15
Brian Harry
Sorry for being a little late to the party this week.  We are rolling out our sprint 79 build to VS Online build this week.  You can read more about it here: https://www.visualstudio.com/news/2015-mar-10-vso. I haven't said anything about it explicitly but a while back we made the decision to increase our focus on burning down our ...

VS 2015 CTP6 and TFS 2015 CTP1 shipped today

February 23, 2015 Feb 23, 2015 02/23/15
Brian Harry
Today we shipped Visual Studio 2015 CTP6 and TFS 2015 CTP1.  You can download both here: Download Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 and Team Foundation Server 2015 CTP You can also read the release notes to learn more about them: Please submit bugs through Connect, suggestions on UserVoice and quick thoughts via Send-a-Smile in the Visual ...

Visual Studio Online Update – Feb 18

February 19, 2015 Feb 19, 2015 02/19/15
Brian Harry
Yesterday we began our sprint 78 VS Online deployment.  You can check out the release notes here: http://www.visualstudio.com/news/2015-feb-18-vso.  there are a few nice improvements. It will likely take 4 or 5 days to upgrade all accounts so don’t be surprised if you don’t see the changes in your account right away. I ...