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July 2017 - Brian Harry's Blog

TFS 2017 Update 2 RTM

July 24, 2017 Jul 24, 2017 07/24/17
Brian Harry
Today we released the final version of Team Foundation Server 2017.2.  Thank you to everyone who installed one of the two release candidates over the past few months and helped us ensure that this is a high quality release. This post lists some important links and info about this release.

VSTS Update – July 14

July 18, 2017 Jul 18, 2017 07/18/17
Brian Harry
This week we are deploying our sprint 120 payload for Visual Studio Team Services.  Check out the release notes for all the detail. The big news of this sprint is the new visual release definition editor that allows you to see the flow of your release through environments.  In the coming sprints we'll be adding views that visualize in-...

Perf results on scaling Git on VSTS with GVFS

July 6, 2017 Jul 6, 2017 07/6/17
Brian Harry
A little over a month ago, I gave an update on our progress of moving the Windows team to Git in the largest Git repo on the planet.  At the time, I described the scale of the Windows Git repo (over 3.5M files and ~4,000 engineers), the current performance results and set of improvements that were just rolling out that we called "O(modified...

A Wiki preview on VSTS

July 6, 2017 Jul 6, 2017 07/6/17
Brian Harry
Back in February, I announced our plan to release a fairly full featured Wiki for Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS).  I also announced that we were purchasing the Wiki extension that was then in the marketplace.  Since then, we've left the Wiki extension in the marketplace pretty much alone and worked to ...