Brian Harry's Blog

A fun project for customer connection

May 14, 2015 May 14, 2015 05/14/15

Brian Harry

Last week the VS Code team came to us saying that they really wanted a great experience getting bug reports from customers.  Microsoft Connect just isn’t a pleasant experience.  They looked at UserVoice and it’s great for suggestions but not optimized for bugs. We decided to pull a few people from across the VS Online ...

VS Online hosted in Australia

May 10, 2015 May 10, 2015 05/10/15

Brian Harry

Today, we are expanding our VS Online footprint to include an instance in Australia.  This adds to the several instances we have in the US and the one we have in Europe.  It is part of our drive to make VS Online available to everyone, in a geography you are comfortable with and with performance you are happy with. (image) Australia ...

VS Online & Power BI

May 5, 2015 May 5, 2015 05/5/15

Brian Harry

I briefly described our new Power BI integration for VS Online in my //Build/ post last week.  I didn’t however provide any details on how to use it.  Jeff Levinson has written a very detailed walk through that explains many of the concepts and shows you how to get connected.  Check out his VS Online Power BI tutorial....

A Real Madrid story

May 5, 2015 May 5, 2015 05/5/15

Brian Harry

Real Madrid is one of the biggest and most successful sports franchises in the world.  Over the past several months we’ve been working with them to build some digital experiences to provide their fans the best possible experience.  As part of that, they wanted to have a great way to understand how their mobile/cloud experiences...

Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server at Build 2015

April 29, 2015 Apr 29, 2015 04/29/15

Brian Harry

It’s conference season – //Build/ is this week and Ignite is next week.  As you might expect, we have a TON of stuff to share so I’ll get right to it. Visual Studio & Team Foundation Server 2015 Release Candidate This week released the release candidates for both VS 2015 and TFS 2015.  Both are “go-live” releases and are ...

VS Online Update – April 27th

April 27, 2015 Apr 27, 2015 04/27/15

Brian Harry

This week we are rolling out our Sprint 81 work.  3 instances have been updated so far and the remaining 3 will update over the next couple of days – so, as usual, you may not see the changes immediately. This update comes close on the heels of the last one.  We just finished the sprint 80 update only a week ago.  It was ...

First TFS 2015 RC production upgrade I know of

April 27, 2015 Apr 27, 2015 04/27/15

Brian Harry

I got the first customer report of a production upgrade to the TFS 2015 release candidate today.  Understand, we haven’t released it yet but we gave an early copy to our MVPs to give us final feedback on.  One of our MVPs reported that he upgraded a customer with a 9GB team project collection (not terribly large, obviously), ...

Team Project Rename available on VS Online

April 24, 2015 Apr 24, 2015 04/24/15

Brian Harry

Today we enabled Team Project rename on all VS Online accounts.  Team Project rename is our #1 User Voice request, by far and the longest standing customer complaint. (image) 6,156 votes and 178 comments later, it’s here (both on VSO – today and in the TFS 2015 RC – available shortly).  I know it’s been a long time coming...

TFVC & Git support

April 21, 2015 Apr 21, 2015 04/21/15

Brian Harry

I got a question on a blog post about differences in TFVC and Git support in TFS and VS Online.  Here’s a link to the question for context: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2015/03/12/the-future-of-team-foundation-version-control.aspx#10608301 I can’t answer in a comment with reasonable formatting so I’ll answer in...

VS Online Update – April 10th

April 13, 2015 Apr 13, 2015 04/13/15

Brian Harry

We are deploying our sprint 80 results this week.  You can read the release notes on visualstudio.com.  There are some very nice improvements for both the Agile tooling and Git.   This is an unusual deployment.  First it's delayed a week and second it's going to take a couple of weeks before all the instances of VS Online ...