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Dogfood I/O Analysis
I've been falling so far behind on everything I'm supposed to do I just can't stand it. Today is my day to try to catch up on blogging. I promised I'd follow up on the dogfood I/O analysis from the Orcas upgrade. Well, I got the results a week or two ago and I just can't find anything particularly useful. The problem is that the data we have from the various samples we've taken over the last year are all different enough that it's hard to compare apples to apples. We haven't used the same methodology. We've reconfigured the drives and repartitioned tables, etc. To a first...
April DevDiv Dogfood Statistics
It’s now been over a month since the DevDiv dogfood server upgrade to Orcas bits. We’ve continued to poke and prod at the server and make patches as we identify issues. The rate has slowed down from that first hectic week of several patches a day to about 1 a week or so now. Overall performance is much better and reliability has stayed very good (7 day availability is at 100% right now). We’ve identified a bunch of great bugs for which the fixes are going into Beta 1. Last weekend, we are did the “final” upgrade of the Office TFS server with the Rosario Internal Release bits for Off...
Configuring TFS to use Sharepoint 2007
Over the past several months we've gotten countless requests from people who want to use the new Sharepoint 2007 (WSS 3.0) with their TFS server (instead of Sharepoint 2003 (WSS 2.0)). Our plan has been to release support for Sharepoint 2007 in the Orcas release of TFS. However, demand has been so overwhelming that we decided to go ahead and figure out what it would take to get it working with TFS 2005. I'd like to thank Mike Glaser for shaming us into doing this by reverse engineering many of the steps necessary to accomplish it. I'd also like to thank the VSTS ranger team (a group of MCS...
Microsoft Announces Silverlight
Check out Soma's blog today: http://blogs.msdn.com/somasegar/archive/2007/04/15/silverlight-the-next-generation-web-media-experiences.aspx He announced a new project called Silverlight that enables amazingly cool cross browsers, cross platform web apps to be written. I've seen some of the demos and they are stunning. I suspect over the next week or two we'll see lots of demos posted to give you an idea of what you can do. You can check out http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight for more information and a video of the kinds of things you can do (OK, I can't do them because I have the artistic abili...
Process MeNtOR
Last week I saw a demo of Process MeNtOR by Object Consulting. They have built a really nice process template for VSTS. If process is something you care about, I'd highly recommend you look into it. In several ways it's better than the process templates we ship in the box. The thing that impressed me most about it is how flexible and dynamic it is. You can pick which parts of the process you want to use and you can change your mind along the way and the system will reconfigure itsefl. It's pretty cool Check it out here: http://www.processmentor.com/ Brian
Cool work item add-on
Sorry for so many posts today but I'm working through my mail backlog from last week and running across a ton of cool stuff. Here's one someone sent me that enables management of work item hierarchies and a neat "recycle bin" for work items. http://loicbaumann.blog.com/1664355/ Brian
TFS & Delphi
I ran across this great post about getting TFS and Delphi working together and thought I'd share it... http://tikotal.blogspot.com/2007/04/connecting-team-foundation-server.html Brian
Progress on devBiz Components
Thank you for your patience as we work through the feedback we've gotten after announcing the devBiz acquisition. The last open issue is feedback from customers of the devBiz components (devMail, etc.) that need a way forward for their use of the components now that they aren't being sold any longer. As I've said before, the future of these components at Microsoft is undecided at this point. We may incorporate them into other products. However, the process of figuring that out and then ultimately releasing them again (should we choose to do that) is going to take a while.&nbs...
Process for requesting TeamPlain refunds
In an earlier post I described the refund program we are putting in place for people who purchased TeamPlain from devBiz just before they were acquired by Microsoft. Refunds are available to people who purchased with 30 days before the close of the acquisition (in other words, any purchase on or after 2/26/07) if it is requested before 6/1/07. I promised that I would post details on the process for requesting this. Here they are. To request a qualifying refund, please send mail to support@devbiz.com with the details of your purchase. Someone will reply to you promptly with details on how t...