Brian Harry's Blog

Growing TFS databases

May 31, 2011 May 31, 2011 05/31/11

Brian Harry

I’ve seen a few reports lately of TFS customers whose databases were growing very rapidly.  After investigation, it has often turned out to be that they were uploading a lot of large attachments to TFS as part of their testing process and then not cleaning them up when they were no longer needed.  Our testing tools can upload ...

TFS and Project Server resources

May 24, 2011 May 24, 2011 05/24/11

Brian Harry

We’re gradually adding to the resources available to understand what you can do with Team Foundation Server and Project Server using the Team Foundation Server and Project Server Integration Feature Pack to manage enterprise development projects. Here are 4 new online videos demonstrating various scenarios: Here’s ...

Update on TFS on Azure

May 18, 2011 May 18, 2011 05/18/11

Brian Harry

It’s been a while since I last talked about our work on TFS on Azure and I’ve been feeling like it’s time to give some kind of an update.  We made a bunch of new ALM announcements about our ALM roadmap at TechEd and we didn’t say too much about hosted TFS, so you may be wondering what we’ve been up to. We&...

Connecting Development and Operations

May 17, 2011 May 17, 2011 05/17/11

Brian Harry

For the last year or so I’ve been giving talks about trends in software development and particularly ALM.  I’ve described one of the big upcoming trends as the need for better collaboration between development and operations.  The state of that collaboration today is not great even given our current technology stacks.  ...

discount ASP.net adds European data center option

April 29, 2011 Apr 29, 2011 04/29/11

Brian Harry

discount ASP.net has added an option to their hosted TFS service for you to host your TFS in the UK.  If you want to learn more, check it out here: http://www.discountasp.net/tfs/Brian...

Team Foundation Server and Project Server virtual machine

April 27, 2011 Apr 27, 2011 04/27/11

Brian Harry

With the release of the final Feature Pack of the TFS/PS connector, we’ve now released an updated virtual machine that contains full configured and ready to test drive bits with all the final software.  You can read Brian Keller’s blog entry on it to get all the details on how to get the VM: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/briankel/...

Team Explorer Everywhere is now available in 3 new languages

April 7, 2011 Apr 7, 2011 04/7/11

Brian Harry

This week we released, both to the MSDN subscriber download site and to public downloads, a language pack for Team Explorer Everywhere 2010 SP1.  This language pack includes Japanese, French and German resources that can be added to your English Team Explorer Everywhere installation.  After installing them, TEE will use the ...

Build Folders

April 1, 2011 Apr 1, 2011 04/1/11

Brian Harry

One of the fairly common requests we get is for some way to organize build definitions.  If you have more than a dozen or two build definitions in a single Team Project, the Team Explorer starts to get unwieldy.  At our MVP Summit a couple of months ago, one of our MVPs presented a cool Team Explorer extension he had built for ...

A nice case study from InnovaSystems

March 30, 2011 Mar 30, 2011 03/30/11

Brian Harry

We’ve just completed a nice case study with InnovaSystems on their adoption of Team Foundation Server in order to achieve CMMI Level 3 compliance. http://www.microsoft.com/casestudies/Microsoft-.NET-Framework-4/InnovaSystems-International/Defense-Contractor-Earns-CMMI-L3-Rating-Raises-Productivity-by-Up-to-25-Percent/4000009464 Brian...