Brian Harry's Blog

News from Connect(); 2016

November 16, 2016 Nov 16, 2016 11/16/16

Brian Harry

Today, at the Connect(); event in New York, we are announcing a whole bunch of cool new stuff.  The news at Connect(); is broad so I'm going to focus on the TFS and Team Services related news. TFS 2017 RTM One of the biggest pieces of news is that we RTM'd TFS 2017.  That's exciting because it unlocks a bunch of enhancements that we've made ...

VS Team Services Update – Nov 7

November 9, 2016 Nov 9, 2016 11/9/16

Brian Harry

This week we are rolling out our sprint 108 work to Team Services.  You can read the release notes for details. It's another comparatively "light" sprint.  It's the last sprint that should be significantly affected by our work to wrap up shipping TFS 15.  We're pretty much done, have incorporated the feedback we got from RC2 and feel we are...

VS Team Services Update – Oct 12

October 13, 2016 Oct 13, 2016 10/13/16

Brian Harry

Before I get to talking about this update let me talk about a change in the way we are announcing updates... It takes a while for an update to roll out across the entire service.  That is by design and it is part of our strategy to control the damage from any bugs we miss in the testing process.  Our deployment process is currently divided ...

Team Services Update – Sept 28

September 28, 2016 Sep 28, 2016 09/28/16

Brian Harry

This week we are rolling out our sprint 106 work.  Here are the release notes.  By now, the update has made it out to most customers and it should finish by the end of the week. Overall, sprint 106 was a modest sprint.  It has lots of nice, relatively small, improvements and nothing particularly earth shattering.  Probably the biggest ...

Team Services Update – Sept 2

September 12, 2016 Sep 12, 2016 09/12/16

Brian Harry

Yes, I'm a bit late on this one.  I was traveling to India and Israel in early Sept and didn't have a change to post about this. A little over a week ago we deployed the sprint 105 work to Team Services.  Check out the release notes for details. We continued our journey this sprint to bring full process customization to Team Services with ...

Paid extensions in the Visual Studio marketplace

August 30, 2016 Aug 30, 2016 08/30/16

Brian Harry

It's hard to believe it but it's been almost a year since we introduced the Visual Studio Marketplace.  It provides a single point of entry for finding extensions for Visual Studio, VS Team Services and VS Code - and since then hundreds upon hundreds of new extensions have been published.  From day one, our vision was to enable the ...

New navigation for Team Services

August 18, 2016 Aug 18, 2016 08/18/16

Brian Harry

In my blog post announcing TFS 15 RC1, I mentioned that we are working on a new navigation UI.  In a somewhat unusual turn of events, it showed up in an on premises preview before it showed up in the cloud.  Today we enabled the new navigation experience in Team Services, making it really easy for anyone to give it a try. This new experience...

Team Services Update – Aug 17

August 18, 2016 Aug 18, 2016 08/18/16

Brian Harry

I missed a few updates while I was out over the summer but, hopefully, now I'm back on my normal cadence. This week, we are deploying our sprint 104 work to VS Team Services.  It looks to me like it's a new record on number of items (defined by number of lines in the release notes) released in a sprint.  You can read the release notes for ...