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Migration and Synchronization Toolkit Prerelease

April 22, 2007 Apr 22, 2007 04/22/07
Brian Harry
For the past 6 or 9 months we've been working on something we call the Migration & Synchronization toolkit.  It is a framework for building tools that either convert from other systems to TFS or synchronize other systems with TFS.  We frequently think about it as a platform for building tools to migrate from alternative tools - ...

Visual Studio Code Name Orcas Available!

April 19, 2007 Apr 19, 2007 04/19/07
Brian Harry
Orcas Beta 1 is now available for download.  I don't think all of the SKUs are available yet - they will be dribbling out over the next week or so but the VPCs for VSTS Team Suite and TFS server are available now.  To a first approximation (the primary difference being minor bug fixes) these TFS server bits are the same ones deployed...

First TFS Best Practices Analyzer Success

April 19, 2007 Apr 19, 2007 04/19/07
Brian Harry
We've been working for the past several months on a new Power Tool - a TFS Best Practices Analyzer.  The goal of this tool is to diagnose TFS configuration and operation problems quickly and easily.  As you probably know, TFS is a pretty complex installation and has many places where things can go wrong. We released the first version...

Managing Quality (part 6) – Community Feedback

April 18, 2007 Apr 18, 2007 04/18/07
Brian Harry
I touched on one aspect of customer involvement in our quality efforts in my last post about Dr. Watson.  There are a variety of other metrics we track and measure ourselves against that are more overtly community oriented.  Before I drill into the metrics we track, let's talk a bit about what aspects of community we think about. Pre...

Dogfood I/O Analysis

April 18, 2007 Apr 18, 2007 04/18/07
Brian Harry
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...

April DevDiv Dogfood Statistics

April 18, 2007 Apr 18, 2007 04/18/07
Brian Harry
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 ...

Configuring TFS to use Sharepoint 2007

April 17, 2007 Apr 17, 2007 04/17/07
Brian Harry
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...

Process MeNtOR

April 10, 2007 Apr 10, 2007 04/10/07
Brian Harry
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 ...

Cool work item add-on

April 9, 2007 Apr 9, 2007 04/9/07
Brian Harry
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

April 9, 2007 Apr 9, 2007 04/9/07
Brian Harry
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...