Brian Harry's Blog

Java Tools Challenge results

June 7, 2016 Jun 7, 2016 06/7/16

Brian Harry

As I mentioned in a previous blog post, we are committed to making VS Team Services a great solution for all developers – for any application on any platform.  3 months ago we kicked off the Java Tools Challenge, sponsored by the Visual Studio Partner Program, and the Visual Studio Marketplace which was a longer term virtual hackathon ...

Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 3 RC is available

June 7, 2016 Jun 7, 2016 06/7/16

Brian Harry

Today we released the release candidate for TFS 2015 Update 3.  Update 3 is a modest release with only a few features and bug fixes for top reported issues. The features in TFS 2015 Update 3 include: We fixed a lot of bugs.  About 140 in total.  I spent about an hour curating the bug list and below are my ...

Team Services Update – June 1

June 7, 2016 Jun 7, 2016 06/7/16

Brian Harry

I'm a bit late this sprint - was a busy week last week. Last week we finished deploying our sprint 100 work.  Yes, sprint 100.  That means we've been doing a Scrum (or Scrum like) development process for 300 weeks.  And for most of that time, actually releasing at the end of every sprint.  Whew, that's over 5 and a half years.  100 ...

Video course: Continuous Delivery with the Windows Stack

June 7, 2016 Jun 7, 2016 06/7/16

Brian Harry

Check out this new video course on automated deployments with Windows, Azure and Visual Studio by Marcel and Rene.  I've known both of them for many years and have a great deal of respect for them.  You can be sure it will be an awesome video with lots of good insights. Thanks, Brian  ...

Visual Studio Team Services is available in Brazil

June 6, 2016 Jun 6, 2016 06/6/16

Brian Harry

Today we launched our Team Services instance in our Azure data center located in Brazil.  This adds to instances in the US, Europe, Australia and India. When you create a new account from https://visualstudio.com we default your Geo to the data center closest to you. Customers in South American countries will now notice that Brazil is the ...

Team Services update – May 9

May 9, 2016 May 9, 2016 05/9/16

Brian Harry

We are in the process of wrapping up the deployment of our sprint 99 deliverables.  You can read the Team Services release notes here. There's a ton of new stuff in this sprint update but I'll just comment on a few.  Let's start with one of the oldest surviving UserVoice items - a checkbox control.  As you can see it was originally created ...

TFS 2015 Update 2.1 is available

May 6, 2016 May 6, 2016 05/6/16

Brian Harry

We have released Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 2.1. The KB article has a full list of included bugs fixed (updated from the list I posted on my blog a couple of weeks ago).  I haven't done a full cross reference but I listed 25 bug fixes in my post and the KB article includes 28 so I'm assuming we added 3 more fixes since my ...

Update on TFS 2015 Update 2.1

April 28, 2016 Apr 28, 2016 04/28/16

Brian Harry

Hmm, it's been a few days of reflection.  I don't think I expected my post on the bugs we were fixing in Update 2.1 to generate so many comments about other bugs that people are hitting.  Let me share some questions that have been on my mind and my thoughts on them... Why did I get so many bugs reported as comments on my blog? In the end, my...

Team Services in India

April 26, 2016 Apr 26, 2016 04/26/16

Brian Harry

Today, we opened up an instance of Visual Studio Team Services in India (Chennai).  This builds on the instances we already have in the US, Europe and Australia and is the next step in our journey to making instances available all over the world. You can create an account in India by just choosing the India region during the Team Services ...

Heads up: TFS 2015.2.1 coming

April 26, 2016 Apr 26, 2016 04/26/16

Brian Harry

By now, I suspect, everyone is pretty used to our cadence for shipping Team Foundation Server.  We ship a "major" release every year or so and then we ship "Updates" about once a quarter.  We just shipped TFS 2015 Update 2 a few weeks ago (otherwise known as TFS 2015.2).  We've been watching the feedback on that release closely and we've ...