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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...

Ever want to create bugs from email?

March 30, 2015 Mar 30, 2015 03/30/15
Brian Harry
Someone recently posted an open source copy of a popular internal tool called Mail2Bug. https://github.com/microsoft/mail2bug It will automatically create bugs from an email and then keep the bug up to date with any further conversation that happens on the email thread.  It works for both VS Online and TFS but requires that you use ...

The future of Team Foundation Version control

March 12, 2015 Mar 12, 2015 03/12/15
Brian Harry
I've written about this before but it keeps coming back.  From time to time I get the question "Is TFVC dead?"  I guess I have to just keep answering it.  No, it is not. We added support for Git in TFS 2013 so that we'd support the best centralized version control system and the best dvcs in the industry.  We've been ...

VS 2015 CTP6 and TFS 2015 CTP1 shipped today

February 23, 2015 Feb 23, 2015 02/23/15
Brian Harry
Today we shipped Visual Studio 2015 CTP6 and TFS 2015 CTP1.  You can download both here: Download Visual Studio 2015 CTP 6 and Team Foundation Server 2015 CTP You can also read the release notes to learn more about them: Please submit bugs through Connect, suggestions on UserVoice and quick thoughts via Send-a-Smile in the Visual ...

Code Search on VS Online

February 13, 2015 Feb 13, 2015 02/13/15
Brian Harry
In November, at our Connect(); event, I gave a sneak peek at a few features/services coming to VS Online, and ultimately Team Foundation Server.  Among the things I demoed was a new source code search feature.  I’m happy to say that the next step in that journey is upon us.  Today, we announced a “limited preview” of our new Code ...

Licensing changes – User acceptance testing and Agile planning

January 27, 2015 Jan 27, 2015 01/27/15
Brian Harry
This is next in a series of licensing and feature changes that I laid out in December.  With this, I think all of the cloud changes (and more) that I described have been made.  Some of the on-prem changes will be available as we release more on-prem updates. User acceptance testing As of this week, you will no longer need a VS Online...

Hiring for VS Online and Team Foundation Server

January 25, 2015 Jan 25, 2015 01/25/15
Brian Harry
Microsoft has an extensive recruiting effort.  But we recently decided to try something new to try to find more people who might want to help build VS Online and Team Foundation Server.  We added a Jobs page to visualstudio.com.  It has a little info on what we do and links to job postings on the Microsoft careers site and some ...

Build & Load Test pricing changes are in effect

January 5, 2015 Jan 5, 2015 01/5/15
Brian Harry
The changes to the VS Online build and load testing services that I described a few weeks ago are now complete.  This represents a substantial reduction in price for both services. (image) We’ve also removed the 10 user limit of Visual Studio Online Professional subscriptions.  The slider goes up to 100 now.  You can contact ...