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Teamprise 3.0 has shipped
I just discovered one more in a long list of things that I missed while I was out. Teamprise has released Teamprise 3.0. The new release includes tons of great new features, including: Full Team Build support, Checkin policy support, folder compare and more... You can read more about it on Martin's blog: http://www.woodwardweb.com/teamprise/000421.html. Or check out the new Teamprise web site at: http://www.teamprise.com/ Brian
Requirements & Team System
Team System is recognized for many of its strengths. One area that I think people often don't grasp the power that Team System brings is in Requirements Management. We don't currently have a product that we sell for the explicit purpose of requirements management but none-the-less can play a central role in a powerful requirements management solution. Lori Lamkin has written an article on requirements management with Team System. It includes an overview of the problems in requirements management, lists approaches to each phase, talks about what Team System brings to the table and where/which par...
OpenMake Meister support for Team Foundation Server
I meant to blog about this before I went on sabbatical, but you know how it goes - the best laid plans... A couple of months ago OpenMake released support for TFS in their Meister cross platform build and deployment product. This product integrates with TFS's Build capability to enable you to build & deploy applications that include Java, Unix and even zOS components in addition to Windows based ones. You can see a brief 1.5 minute video highlighting the product or visit their web site to learn more. Brian
A new home for Visual Studio Hotfixes
We've been publishing hotfixes for general download for a year or so now. Although it has been reasonably popular, it never took off (in terms of publishing or downloads) the way I had hoped. Part of the problem, I believe, is that the advertising/download solution we had was not very conducive to finding what you want. We hope that problem has now been fixed. Developer Division hotfixes are now being published on the new MSDN Code Gallery site. It gives us the ability to tag hot fixes with key words and for you to refine your search for what you want. I'm hoping it will really boos...
April '08 DevDiv TFS Dogfood Statistics
Due to my sabbatical, I missed the March Dogfood statistics. In my absence, adoption has continued apace. The team has been very busy making sure the server is behaving well and applying fixes when it is not. Looking at the graphs below, you can see that several of the statistics have really started to grow at dramatically higher rates in recent months - File downloads, Files, Workspaces. In fact, the only reason you see file downloads decreasing is that we continue to move more high load users (like the build lab, checkin validation, etc) to use proxies for downloads rather than the main serve...
April '08 DevDiv TFS Dogfood Statistics
Due to my sabbatical, I missed the March Dogfood statistics. In my absence, adoption has continued apace. The team has been very busy making sure the server is behaving well and applying fixes when it is not. Looking at the graphs below, you can see that several of the statistics have really started to grow at dramatically higher rates in recent months - File downloads, Files, Workspaces. In fact, the only reason you see file downloads decreasing is that we continue to move more high load users (like the build lab, checkin validation, etc) to use proxies for downloads rather than the main serve...
New TFS Specs Available
We continue in our effort to publish specs for features that are under development very early in the process so that we can incorporate your feedback before we are even done coding it. We haven't published as many as I had hoped but we continue to emphasize the importance of it within the team and are starting to see some real momentum. While I was out on sabbatical, 3 new specs were published. Codename “TFS Bug Submission Portal” Power Tool for Team Foundation Server 2008 - This covers the new limited TFS access for users without CALs. I just wrote a longer blog post about it...
Updates to Team System Web Access
A few days ago we released a couple of Community Technology Previews (CTPs) for the next release of Team System Web Access. They include a set of new enhancements for the existing Team System Web Access UI and the promised additional capability to supplement the new TFS 2008 licensing policy that enables limited TFS access for the purpose of "filing a bug" without having a Client Access License (CAL). You can read more about the licensing change in this post. The new feature is tentatively being called "Work Item Web Access" - We'll see if it sticks by the time we ship it :) ...
Pictures of my farm
My sabbatical is almost over. I've got one week left. But at the moment, I'm taking a sabbatical from my sabbatical :). I'm in Redmond for the next two weeks to attend our MVP summit and some other important meetings. After that I'll be back on the farm for a week and then back to work for good. When I'm all done, I'll write a wrap up on what all I did (and didn't) accomplish but for now, I'll share some pics. To start with, here's a aerial view from maps.live.com. The center of the picture is the "main" barn - about 7,000 square feet. Just to the lower right o...