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TFS Office Integration Installer

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 and Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 1 pre-release available

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

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 ...

VS Online/TFS Feature timeline – the UserVoice version

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

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 ...

TFS 2015 Installation guidance

At least once or twice a week, I’m getting questions about where the TFS 2015 installation guidance is.  We’re not doing well with search engines on that apparently.  We’re going to see if we can do better but, in the mean time, here’s the link just in case you stumble across my blog :)Installing Team ...

TFS 2015 Power Tools are available

Today we released the TFS 2015 Power Tools that accompany VS 2015 and TFS 2015.  The landing page that link points to includes lots of info about compatibility, changes, etc.Sorry it took a bit longer to get these out than we expected.Brian...

Team Foundation Server 2015 Final Release

Today we released the final version of Team Foundation Server 2015.  TFS 2015 is a major step forward, with tons of improvements throughout the development process but with special emphasis on DevOps capabilities. Here are all of the TFS 2015 related downloads.  Look under Visual Studio 2015 for things like Test Professional, ...