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Me, in Japanese
We've gotten a lot of feedback over the past year that our online content is really valuable but that it is a big problem that it is not translated for countries where English is not a commonly spoken/learned language. Japan is, perhaps, one of the best examples. We are trying some experments in this area and one of them is translating my blog into Japanese. Among them is translating my blog to Japanese. Here's a link if you speak Japanese: http://blogs.msdn.com/tfsjpn/default.aspx We haven't quite figured out what we are going to do about comments yet - since I, unfortunately, do not speak Japa...
Me, in Japanese
We've gotten a lot of feedback over the past year that our online content is really valuable but that it is a big problem that it is not translated for countries where English is not a commonly spoken/learned language. Japan is, perhaps, one of the best examples. We are trying some experments in this area and one of them is translating my blog into Japanese. Among them is translating my blog to Japanese. Here's a link if you speak Japanese: http://blogs.msdn.com/tfsjpn/default.aspx We haven't quite figured out what we are going to do about comments yet - since I, unfortunately, do not speak Japa...
Issues uninstalling Dec 2007 Power Tools – error 1001
We've heard some reports from people who are upgrading to the Mar 2008 Power Tools that they have had problems uninstalling the Dec 2007 Power Tools (which you must do first). They get "error 1001" - a very useful error message a must admit. It makes me wonder what the other 1000 errors are :) Anyway, working with a few customers, we have determined the cause of the problem - and the work around is easy. Solution – Repair then Uninstall Go to Control Panel, Add Remove Programs (or Programs and Features if you run Vista). Select the Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2007 Power Tools &nda...
Issues uninstalling Dec 2007 Power Tools – error 1001
We've heard some reports from people who are upgrading to the Mar 2008 Power Tools that they have had problems uninstalling the Dec 2007 Power Tools (which you must do first). They get "error 1001" - a very useful error message a must admit. It makes me wonder what the other 1000 errors are :) Anyway, working with a few customers, we have determined the cause of the problem - and the work around is easy. Solution – Repair then Uninstall Go to Control Panel, Add Remove Programs (or Programs and Features if you run Vista). Select the Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2007 Power Tools &nda...
Overall TFS Adoption at Microsoft
It's been a while since I did a post of overall TFS adoption at Microsoft and it seems like it would be a good time to do so. More and more teams onboard every month and usage within teams continues to deepen. I post details of the Developer Adoption every month, and this post with give you a (less detailed) picture of what it looks like across the whole company. A simple way to look at this is the number of active TFS users. Here's a trend of total active TFS users across the company: Here's a graph of trends, broken down by major group: This report comes from the operations team...
Overall TFS Adoption at Microsoft
It's been a while since I did a post of overall TFS adoption at Microsoft and it seems like it would be a good time to do so. More and more teams onboard every month and usage within teams continues to deepen. I post details of the Developer Adoption every month, and this post with give you a (less detailed) picture of what it looks like across the whole company. A simple way to look at this is the number of active TFS users. Here's a trend of total active TFS users across the company: Here's a graph of trends, broken down by major group: This report comes from the operations team...
More Rosario specifications posted
We added/updated several Rosario specifications this week. For those of you on the "bleeding edge", this is your opportunity to get in on the ground floor and provide feedback early in the development process. You can provide any feedback you have on our feedback forum here: http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDNWorkShop/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=1981&SiteID=64 The updates include: Add to Source Control - Minor updates to the existing specification Enterprise Team Foundation Server Management - A new spec that covers some of the architectural changes we are making to improve scale and m...
March '08 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released
We've just released a new version of the TFS Power Tools. This new Power Tool release will work only with the VS/Team Explorer 2008 client (but against either a TFS 2005 or TFS 2008 server). If you haven't taken the time to upgrade yet, I highly recommend it - you are missing out on lots of great new value we are delivering. Although this release is not quite as big as the record setting December '07 Power Tools release, it's packed with great stuff. It's got something for almost everyone but the largest portion will probably be most useful to TFS administrators. We know TFS administrator...
Team Development Guide with TFS now in Russian
The wildly popular Team Development guide with TFS that was produced by the Patterns and Practices team has now been translated in to Russian. You can find the Russian translation here.Brian