{"id":3181,"date":"2012-06-11T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-06-11T06:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2012\/06\/11\/team-foundation-service-preview-is-public\/"},"modified":"2024-05-02T14:45:56","modified_gmt":"2024-05-02T21:45:56","slug":"team-foundation-service-preview-is-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/team-foundation-service-preview-is-public\/","title":{"rendered":"Team Foundation Service Preview is public!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Since we announced the Team Foundation Service Preview<\/a> at the BUILD conference last year, we\u2019ve limited the onboarding of new customers by requiring invitation codes to create accounts.\u00a0 The main reason for this has been to control the growth of the service to make sure it didn\u2019t run away from us and end up with a bad user experience.\u00a0 In this time period, we\u2019ve continued to work on our infrastructure, performance, scale, monitoring, management and, of course, some cool new features like cloud build.\u00a0 We now have enough experience under our belt that we are confident enough to open up the preview by removing the invitation codes.<\/p>\n

The service will remain in \u201cpreview\u201d for a while longer while we work through additional features like data portability, commercial terms, etc but the terms of service support production use, the service is reliable and we expect to carry all of your data forward into production.\u00a0 We have been using it for more and more of our own projects and have been watching pretty rapid community uptake.\u00a0 There\u2019s no better time to check it out than now.<\/p>\n

When you sign up for an account, you now get the screen on the left, rather than the one on the right,\u00a0 Notice that the Invitation code section is gone.<\/p>\n

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As part of making the Team Foundation Service Preview fully public, we\u2019ve also been working hard on a new \u201cWelcome\u201d experience.\u00a0 The old one was a very simple placeholder page that had an incredibly quick 2 minute tour of signing up and getting started.<\/p>\n

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But, with this release, we now have a fairly rich welcome site that includes a lot more information about what the service can do, an update on our thinking of future pricing (though it\u2019s still pretty vague), a whole lot of tutorial walk-throughs under Learn, etc.<\/p>\n

Here\u2019s the new landing page\u2026<\/p>\n

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There\u2019s an extensive set of walk-throughs under Learn for both Visual Studio and Eclipse that help you get started, get your source checked in, configure builds, do testing, use Agile Project Management and more.<\/p>\n

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There are also some good links under Community and Support to connect with additional resources.<\/p>\n

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And, if you notice, in the upper right hand corner, there is a Sign In link.\u00a0 This allows you to sign into tfspreview.com<\/a> without first going to your project page.\u00a0 One of the most common questions we get today is \u201cI created an account the other day but I can\u2019t remember the link to it, can you find it for me?\u201d\u00a0 Now, you can just sign in to tfspreview.com and visit the Account page and find a link to your own account.\u00a0 Ultimately, we plan to expand this to include links to all the accounts to which you have been invited.<\/p>\n

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We\u2019re thrilled to have reached this next milestone in the development of our online service.\u00a0 The last few weeks have been super busy with the release of the VS\/TFS\/.NET release candidate<\/a> the week before last, our June 4th service update<\/a> with a bunch of nice new features and our Azure continuous deployment announcements<\/a> last week and then the public preview and welcome site announced in this post.\u00a0 Thankfully that\u2019s it for this wave of announcements.\u00a0 Maybe we can take a breather for a minute \"Image<\/a>\u00a0 Wait, our next service update is scheduled for 2 weeks from now.\u00a0 I guess we\u2019ll stay busy.<\/p>\n

But seriously, we\u2019re definitely excited to have you try out the service and would love to hear any feedback you have \u2013 either on the new welcome experience or on the existing service.\u00a0 Our goal is to make it something you\u2019re going to love!<\/p>\n

Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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