Last night we released version 1.2 of the Team Foundation Server MSSCCI Provider. This tool enables a wide range of IDEs to access TFS. It is available for download here and is for use by anyone who owns a Team Foundation Server Client Access License CAL either by purchasing a VSTS role product (e.g. Visual Studio Team System for Develo...
A couple of months ago I blogged the list of bug fixes & enhancements in TFS SP1. Since then, we added a few more. Here are the additional ones. Some of them are just about fixing bugs with the patch itself. I filtered those out of the initial list since they didn't seem that interesting. However, since this is the...
I just got email that there's a new Team System users group in Minneapolis now - in addition to the one I mentioned in Boston several weeks ago. It's great to see the community of people interested in Team System continue to grow. Here's the link if you'd like to check it out: http://vstsmn.net/Default.aspxBrian
I'm happy to announce that VS SP1 (including Visual Studio Team System) has released. It's been a long time in the making and I know it's been frustrating waiting but it is finally available and there is a ton of good stuff in it. I've blogged about some of the great TFS improvements here and here. My understanding is that we...
Sorry I've been away a while. It's been almost 2 weeks since I've posted anything of much interest. It's been crazy trying to get so many things finished up by the end of the year and I just haven't had time to think straight. I've been trying to figure out what I was going to talk about next now that I've pretty much spilled the ...
There's a cool new offering on MSDN now that enables people to give TFS a try without having to deal with downloading it or installing it or almost anything. I tried it last night and all I had to do was go to the site, download some small ActiveX control and use the demo. It included a sidebar script that walked me through step by step...
I've been hinting at this coming for while now. I think I promised it would come out in Dec and here it is on the last day of Nov :). I hope this is helpful to you in knowing where we are headed and also in giving us feedback on where we are missing the boat. Please share with us any feedback you have. We are working on gett...
We've been conducting fairly regular chats on VSTS. They've been very lively and we've good participation. The last one was November 8th and the transcript from it is here. We've got another one coming up on December 6th at 10am PST. Please join us if you are interested.
It's really cool to see user's groups for Team System start to pop up around the country. Michael just announced a new one in Boston. I've offered to come up there and speak at it sometime in the spring. If you know of more user's groups let me know, I'd love to build a list of them.
We continue to evolve and improve upon the TFS reliability and disaster recovery story. Fundamentally reliability and disaster recovery are about preserving service (or minimizing outage) and eliminating data loss in the face of failure in components of your system. When we look at TFS component failure, we primarily focus on the appl...
