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November 2016 - Brian Harry's Blog

VS Team Services Update – Nov 28

November 29, 2016 Nov 29, 2016 11/29/16
Brian Harry
This week we are deploying our sprint 109 payload.  You can read the release notes for details. There's a few things I'm particularly excited about. Build task versioning - We had a live site incident a few months ago because we rolled out an update to a build task on our hosted pools and it broke pretty much everyone's builds.  That caused ...

DevOps at Connect();

November 29, 2016 Nov 29, 2016 11/29/16
Brian Harry
A little late on this, but the video of my presentation (with Jamie Cool) is on Channel9 now: https://channel9.msdn.com/Events/Connect/2016?sort=status&direction=desc&c=Brian-Harry&term= I've been saying for a couple of year that TFS and Team Services are a great DevOps solution for your whole team - regardless of the technology or...

TFS/Team Services Q4 Roadmap update

November 29, 2016 Nov 29, 2016 11/29/16
Brian Harry
A few days ago we published our Q4 update to the TFS/Team Services roadmap.  We should have done it 6 weeks ago but, Connect(); in mid-November had us really busy and it just fell through the cracks.  Sorry about that.  We should be updating it again in mid-January. As a reminder, everything on here is just our best estimates and things ...

News from Connect(); 2016

November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16
Brian Harry
Today, at the Connect(); event in New York, we are announcing a whole bunch of cool new stuff.  The news at Connect(); is broad so I'm going to focus on the TFS and Team Services related news. TFS 2017 RTM One of the biggest pieces of news is that we RTM'd TFS 2017.  That's exciting because it unlocks a bunch of enhancements that we've made ...

Connect(); event today

November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16
Brian Harry
Check out the Connect(); event today.  Live stream Scott's keynote and view on demand tons of other content - including my session on DevOps. https://connectevent.microsoft.com/ Brian...

VS Team Services Update – Nov 7

November 9, 2016 Nov 9, 2016 11/9/16
Brian Harry
This week we are rolling out our sprint 108 work to Team Services.  You can read the release notes for details. It's another comparatively "light" sprint.  It's the last sprint that should be significantly affected by our work to wrap up shipping TFS 15.  We're pretty much done, have incorporated the feedback we got from RC2 and feel we are...