Update: Um, egg on face. When I first posted this, it ended up having the email thread with the customer attached. I updated it to remove it as quickly as possible but I sincerely apologize. I got an email from a customer a couple of days ago asking about issues he was having with Team Foundation Service. After looping in our internal support...
If you are a regular user of our Team Foundation Service - particularly during peak times, you've probably noticed that it hasn't been running as seamlessly as usual. Our recent issues started with our sprint 45 deployment that I wrote about here and foreshadowed here. In this post I want to give you some insights to what happened and w...
Today, we released the results of Sprint 45 on Team Foundation Service. You can check out the release notes to learn more about today’s release. There were 2 basic areas of new capabilities on the service: Git Branch insights and Web based test execution UI. Both are nice improvements in usability and experience. You might n...
Sprint 44 is done and has now been deployed to the service. You can read the release notes on the Team Foundation Service Portal to learn more about what’s in it. Maybe the biggest news is that the customizable swim lanes for kanban are live on the service now. Over all though, it was a sprint of just moving the ball forward...
Clearly yesterday was a bad day. Team Foundation Service was mostly down for approximately 9 hours. The underlying issue was an expired SSL certificate in Windows Azure storage. We use HTTPS to access Windows Azure storage, where we store source code files, Git repos, work item attachments and more. The expired certificate p...
