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Today we are making a major update to our “Features Timeline” for TFS and VSTS. To remind you, the Features Timeline provides an indication of some of the bigger, higher demand things we are working on and when we think they will be delivered – both on premises in TFS and in the cloud in VSTS (formerly VS Online). A few caveats… It doesn’t repre...

Today we are making a major update to our “Features Timeline” for TFS and VSTS.  To remind you, the Features Timeline provides an indication of some of the bigger, higher demand things we are working on and when we think they will be delivered – both on premises in TFS and in the cloud in VSTS (formerly VS Online).A few cavea...

We recently released a small update to Team Explorer Everywhere – a cross platform command line and Eclipse plug-in for working Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team Services.You can download it here: Improvements include: Brian

For the past several months, friends have been bugging me to write another farm post – it’s been quite a while.  The problem is that I haven’t been able to think of anything terribly interesting.  Most farm work does make for a good blog post – chores, feeding, cutting hay, repairing fences, …  Just not great content for an interesting post. Wel...

Today we shipped the final releases of Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 and Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 1. Here are the release notes: There were very few changes between the last release candidates and this final release – just a hand full of bug fixes.  Check out the release notes for all the new stuff in this update – there’s...

Today is our annual Fall developer Connect(); event in New York.  I’m here talking about a ton of new stuff that we’re doing to help developers adopt agile DevOps practices.  Normally I would write a detailed post with screenshots and descriptions highlighting the news.  However, this time, I’m going to take a diffe...

It’s been a painfully and embarrassingly long time coming but the SCOM Management Pack for TFS 2015 is finally available.  Give it a spin and let us know if you have any feedback.Download TFS 2015 Management PackBrian

We just released our final “pre-release” of Update 1 for Team Foundation Server 2015 and Visual Studio 2015.  Lots of useful links are available here: You’ll find the installation links at the top of the release notes pages.As I was looking over things (and finding a few issues with the release notes page :)) t...

As usual, you can read the release notes for this update on visualstudio.com. One of the most popular improvements released this sprint are our new dashboards.  We’ve been dogfooding them internally for a few sprints now and some of my feature teams have put together some very nice dashboards.  There are a number of tile types to choose from and...

Here's a nice Forbes article on Agile at Microsoft...http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2015/10/27/surprise-microsoft-is-agile/Brian