Brian Harry's Blog

TFS Proxy Testimonial

August 30, 2006 Aug 30, 2006 08/30/06

Brian Harry

Martin Woodward has posted a cool article on his blog with his experiences setting up a TFS proxy server and the results he got with it: http://www.woodwardweb.com/vsts/000273.htmlBrian...

Exporting Areas and Iterations

August 28, 2006 Aug 28, 2006 08/28/06

Brian Harry

A couple of days ago someone asked me how to export the areas and iterations from one project and be able to use them as a template to create other projects.  Creating a set of pre-defined Areas & Iterations is a feature of the TFS process templates.  In this post I've included a sample to show how to export the Areas and ...

August DevDiv TFS Dogfood Statistics

August 26, 2006 Aug 26, 2006 08/26/06

Brian Harry

Another month, a lot more growth.  We continue the process of onboarding teams and growing the data.  Here's the updated data for August and (now that I'm using a decent blog editing tool) I can start including some cool graphs in these posts :)     Users Work items Version control Commands (last 7 days...

An important milestone for TFS training

August 26, 2006 Aug 26, 2006 08/26/06

Brian Harry

This week we held what we call our "Beta Teach" of our 300 level training material in Chicago.  A "Beta Teach" is when we think we have all of the content ready and we bring in a group of people (in this case, about 20) and actually teach a class.  The goal is to figure out if the content is really ready and make any last minute "bug...

More Expirations Coming Soon…

August 23, 2006 Aug 23, 2006 08/23/06

Brian Harry

This blog post has been replaced by: http://blogs.msdn.com/bharry/archive/2006/10/04/Last-word-on-TFS-Expirations-2800_I-hope_2900.aspx I have removed tha attached utility from this post as it is out of date.  Please see the post above for a newer version. Brian ---------------------  A couple of weeks ago I wrote about the...

Microsoft's Team Foundation Server Deployment Topology

August 22, 2006 Aug 22, 2006 08/22/06

Brian Harry

Given how much I talk about our internal "dogfooding" of TFS on this blog, I thought you might be interested in seeing a diagram of what our internal deployment actually looks like.  This diagram was put together by our IT department a couple of weeks ago.  It shows the basic network topology, regions we have servers and the ...

TFS Trial Edition and Release Candidate Expirations

August 8, 2006 Aug 8, 2006 08/8/06

Brian Harry

We are rapidly approaching 6 months since TFS released. Yeah, that's right - Isn't it amazing how time flies?  I've started to see a rash of emails from people who are discovering that their TFS trial Edition and Release Candidate installs are expiring. I'm sad to say that you don't get any warning that this is about to happen.  One ...

Whitepaper on our TFS Dogfood deploytment

July 31, 2006 Jul 31, 2006 07/31/06

Brian Harry

Our IT operations team put together a whitepaper here Deploying Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server as an Enterprise-Wide Service Technical Case Study that describes how they have rolled out the TFS service offering here at Microsoft.  It describes how one team provides TFS projects to any product group in Microsoft that wants ...

July DevDiv dogfood statistics

July 24, 2006 Jul 24, 2006 07/24/06

Brian Harry

Holy Toledo!  The growth in data on our dogfood server just isn't slowing down.  The file count (in particular) is really rocketing.  We're now over 33 million (yes, million) files and I don't see any evidence that it's going to slow down soon.  A while ago, I predicted that we'd hit 100 million this year - I'm now starting...

Cool stuff coming for Visual Studio Team System

July 14, 2006 Jul 14, 2006 07/14/06

Brian Harry

VSTS Training Material Over the past several months I've been hearing a lot of people asking about the availability of training for Team Foundation Server.  I've heard it from end users who are working on their adoption plans and from training partners who want to add a VSTS offering to their repetoire.  I'm pleased to let ...