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Visual Studio Online Update – Oct 30

November 3, 2015 Nov 3, 2015 11/3/15
Brian Harry
As usual, you can read the release notes for this update on visualstudio.com. One of the most popular improvements released this sprint are our new dashboards.  We’ve been dogfooding them internally for a few sprints now and some of my feature teams have put together some very nice dashboards.  There are a number of tile types to ...

TFS Office Integration Installer

October 15, 2015 Oct 15, 2015 10/15/15
Brian Harry
One of the things I forgot to mention in my post about TFS 2015 Update 1 RC is that we have also shipped a preview of our new TFS Office Integration Installer (ISO image).  This new installer addresses a couple of scenarios: The PowerPoint storyboarding tool is a really nice way to mock up user experiences quickly and easily.  You can...

Visual Studio Online Update – Oct 8th

October 14, 2015 Oct 14, 2015 10/14/15
Brian Harry
Another post I missed last week was an announcement about our sprint 89 deployment for VS Online.  You can read the release notes for details.Probably the biggest thing is support for Active Directory group support for managing permissions.  This as been a very common request from our larger customers in VSO so they don’t need ...

Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 1 pre-release available

October 14, 2015 Oct 14, 2015 10/14/15
Brian Harry
I’m a bit late to this party because we released them about a week ago.  I generally try to sync my blog posts but we had a death in the family last week and I just didn’t have the time to deal with blogging.The Visual Studio preview is named “CTP 1” and you can read more about it here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/...

VS Online Update – Sept 18

September 30, 2015 Sep 30, 2015 09/30/15
Brian Harry
Sorry for being so late on this one.  The last couple of weeks have been very hectic for me and I’ve mostly had to ignore my blog.Last week we finished rolling out our sprint 88 work.  You can read about the details in the VS Online release notes.As has become the pattern over the past 6 months, this sprint, we rolled out a ...

September pricing and licensing changes

September 1, 2015 Sep 1, 2015 09/1/15
Brian Harry
I want to update you all on the pricing and licensing changes we’ve been working on over the past year.VS Online Basic usersThe new, less expensive, tiered pricing model I announced a couple of months ago goes into effect Sept 1st (today).  In addition, we are finalizing the licensing documents to include an on-prem TFS CAL with ...

VS Online/TFS Feature timeline – the UserVoice version

August 28, 2015 Aug 28, 2015 08/28/15
Brian Harry
As a follow up to my post yesterday on the Feature timeline refresh, I took a few minutes this morning to walk through our UserVoice site and summarize how the work we are planning over the next several months relates.  This is a different granularity cut (because it’s based on UV suggestions) that what I published yesterday. I’m not...

Features timeline refresh

August 27, 2015 Aug 27, 2015 08/27/15
Brian Harry
With the TFS 2015 release behind us and a lot of planning for our next phase of work completed, it’s time to do a major refresh of our Visual Studio Online Features Timeline.  If you aren’t familiar with this page, I encourage you to check it out.  It not only gives you a peek ahead to things we’re working on, it ...

VS 2012 Update 5 has been released

August 27, 2015 Aug 27, 2015 08/27/15
Brian Harry
This week we released the final build of VS 2012 Update 5.  You can get it on the Visual Studio downloads page.  There are only a few changes in it.  You can find them in the VS 2012 Update 5 KB article.Brian...