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Heads up: TFS 2015.2.1 coming
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 seen more bugs reported than I'm comfortable with. Every release has some bugs and we work to fix them in the subsequent Update (and provide hot fixes on demand) but this had enough that I'm uncomfortable making people "live with them" for a few months. There aren't really cata...
VS Team Services Update – April 13
This week we are deploying our sprint 98 work to Visual Studio Team Services. You can read the release notes for details of what's included. From time to time, I like to cross reference the work we are releasing with UserVoice to make sure we are actually making progress on the top requests from our users. It's good to see that we knocked off 3 long standing requests with hundreds of votes each this sprint. In addition to those, this sprint includes a bunch of other cool things. A couple I've heard a lot or requests for lately: Follow work item - the ability to easily flag/unflag an item so you get change n...
Team Services and TFS Roadmap update – Apr 2016
Today, we refreshed the roadmap for Visual Studio Team Services and Team Foundation Server. We've retired the items that were scheduled for Q1/Update 2, updated the items scheduled for Q2 and added the plan for Q3. We completed a significant majority of the things we planned to. A few things did not complete in Q1 and have been rescheduled for Q2. The only really big thing was: Git SSH support - We almost got it done but had some performance issues to work out we expect to have it available in Team Services in the next few weeks and in TFS 2015 Update 3. The rest of the long list that we had planned for Q1 and...
VS2015 Update 2 and TFS 2015 Update 2 have shipped
Yesterday, at the //Build/ conference, we announced the final release of Visual Studio 2015 Update 2 and Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 2. You can learn more at the following links: We also released an early preview of Visual Studio “15”. We will not be releasing a preview of TFS “15” at this time. List with the 2015 release cycle, the best way to see what’s coming in TFS is to explore Visual Studio Team Services. We expect to release a preview of TFS “15” sometime this summer. TFS 2015 Update 2 has a lot of major improvements to almost every area of the product. Some of the most prominent ones inc...
Introducing Application Insights Analytics
Last month, in a post, I wrote about a VS Team Services outage, I mentioned (and showed some results from) a new tool we've been working on that we internally call "Kusto". We've now made a preview of Kusto publicly available as "Application Insights Analytics". Kusto is a phenomenal tool. I can't say enough good stuff about it. I can gush about it, without boast, because I can take almost no credit for it. Yes it's on my team but the folks who have done this have done an astonishing job and all I've done is watched. Kusto was already an incubation project when I inherited the team a couple of years ago and ...
Team Services extension for VS Code
Today we shipped a VS Code extension for working with VS Team Services. The new extension includes status bar indicators and a list of VC Code commands for common operations. You can read more on our blog post. Brian
YouTube channel for Team Services sprint videos
Some of our MVPs have put together a YouTube channel for VS Team Services sprint videos. It's very cool. Check it out. Brian
Ratings and reviews in the VS Marketplace
As of this morning, we now have ratings and reviews in the VS Marketplace! This will allow you to comment on your favorite (or least favorite) extensions and to see what other people are saying when choosing an extension. You can see a 5 star rating on each tile and at the bottom of each extension details page, you will see a list of reviews with comments. You, of course, have the ability to write your own. To limit spam and other abuse we require reviewers to authenticate with a Microsoft Account or Azure Active Directory account. Further, to the right of each review, you can flag offensive or spam reviews. ...
SOC compliance certification for VS Team Services
We take the protection of customer data very seriously and work hard to ensure your data is safe and that we comply with expected policies in all the regions in which we operate. Earlier this month we took another important step towards meeting the compliance needs of our customers by completing the Service Organization Controls certifications (SOC1 and SOC2) for Visual Studio Team Services. These audits evaluated the effectiveness of our internal controls impacting data security, service availability, confidentiality, and processing integrity. This report covers all of our generally available services at the ti...