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January 27, 2016Jan 27, 201601/27/16This week we are deploying the changes from sprints 93 and 94 (they spanned Christmas/New Years so we combined them into a single deployment. You can read the release notes for all the details.
As usual, as I write this, the updates have not yet made it to all tenants but they will over the next day or two.
January 11, 2016Jan 11, 201601/11/16Today we are making a major update to our “Features Timeline” for TFS and VSTS. To remind you, the Features Timeline provides an indication of some of the bigger, higher demand things we are working on and when we think they will be delivered – both on premises in TFS and in the cloud in VSTS (formerly VS Online).
January 11, 2016Jan 11, 201601/11/16Today we are making a major update to our “Features Timeline” for TFS and VSTS. To remind you, the Features Timeline provides an indication of some of the bigger, higher demand things we are working on and when we think they will be delivered –
January 8, 2016Jan 8, 201601/8/16We recently released a small update to Team Explorer Everywhere – a cross platform command line and Eclipse plug-in for working Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio Team Services.
You can download it here:
Eclipse Marketplace
Microsoft Download Center
Improvements include:
Added support for TFVC and Git repositories in the same team project
Added server connection optimizations
Renamed “Visual Studio Online”
November 18, 2015Nov 18, 201511/18/15Today is our annual Fall developer Connect(); event in New York. I’m here talking about a ton of new stuff that we’re doing to help developers adopt agile DevOps practices. Normally I would write a detailed post with screenshots and descriptions highlighting the news.
November 3, 2015Nov 3, 201511/3/15As usual, you can read the release notes for this update on visualstudio.com.
One of the most popular improvements released this sprint are our new dashboards. We’ve been dogfooding them internally for a few sprints now and some of my feature teams have put together some very nice dashboards.
October 27, 2015Oct 27, 201510/27/15Here’s a nice Forbes article on Agile at Microsoft…
http://www.forbes.com/sites/stevedenning/2015/10/27/surprise-microsoft-is-agile/
Brian
October 15, 2015Oct 15, 201510/15/15One 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:
People like project managers,
October 14, 2015Oct 14, 201510/14/15Another post I missed last week was an announcement about our sprint 89 deployment for VS Online. You can read the release notes for details.
Probably the biggest thing is support for Active Directory group support for managing permissions. This as been a very common request from our larger customers in VSO so they don’t need to maintain shadow groups in VSO and AAD.
September 30, 2015Sep 30, 201509/30/15Sorry 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.
