{"id":3391,"date":"2012-04-30T12:50:06","date_gmt":"2012-04-30T12:50:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2012\/04\/30\/tfspreview-update\/"},"modified":"2024-05-13T10:08:32","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T17:08:32","slug":"tfspreview-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/tfspreview-update\/","title":{"rendered":"TFSPreview update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we rolled out an update to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tfspreview.com\">TFSPreview<\/a>.\u00a0 The majority of it was underlying plumbing changes to improve operations, diagnostics, cost, etc.\u00a0 As we roll off our TFS 11 work, we\u2019ll see more and more of our effort show up as new service capabilities.\u00a0 That will mean more improvements, faster.<\/p>\n<p>The two biggest things we did in this latest release were:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Rewire some plumbing for the build service to reduce the amount of time it takes for a hosted build to start.\u00a0 There used to be some queue delay but now it should generally get started faster<\/li>\n<li>Implement some capabilities that will ultimately allow us to have different levels of quality of service for different customers and overall increase the density, lowering our costs.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>But beyond that, there were a few visible changes as well.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Some styling changes \u2013 particularly around sign in\/out.\u00a0 This is a tiny glimpse into a much bigger set of changes that are on the way.\u00a0 Here\u2019s what the sign in screen looks like.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2012\/04\/5383.logout_thumb_46433A32.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-16100\" src=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2012\/04\/5383.logout_thumb_46433A32.png\" alt=\"Image 5383 logout thumb 46433A32\" width=\"644\" height=\"462\" srcset=\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2012\/04\/5383.logout_thumb_46433A32.png 644w, https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2012\/04\/5383.logout_thumb_46433A32-300x215.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 644px) 100vw, 644px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Keyboard control for the backlog &#8211;\u00a0 You can now hold down the Alt key and use the up and down arrows to reorder items on the backlog.<\/li>\n<li>Better touch support for the task board \u2013 Tiles are now single click enabled and, in general, we made the taskboard much more touch friendly.<\/li>\n<li>Filtering of areas &amp; iterations \u2013 It\u2019s a small thing for most people but now, when you are configuring your areas and iterations on a large project, you can filter them to just those that are relevant for your team.<\/li>\n<li>No more identity provider screen \u2013 You used to get a screen to choose the identity provider \u2013 with only LiveID as an option.\u00a0 Seems kind of silly.\u00a0 Now we just skip that screen in many scenarios (though not the logout flow where I took the screenshot above).\u00a0 This has highlighted a bit of a nasty issue for people who switch between LiveIDs.\u00a0 That\u2019s never worked great because you actually have to go to live.com to really log now but now if you use the \u201cUse different credentials\u201d link in the VS connect dialog, it does nothing.\u00a0 That\u2019s because it tries to invoke the login page but live.com says you are still authenticated and automatically logs you back in.\u00a0 We have plans to fix the multi-LiveID scenario in the next few months.<\/li>\n<li>Updated to Azure 1.6 SDK on our build service images.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As I said, the visible changes in this release were pretty modest.\u00a0 We\u2019ve got a bunch of cool stuff in the queue.<\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week we rolled out an update to TFSPreview.\u00a0 The majority of it was underlying plumbing changes to improve operations, diagnostics, cost, etc.\u00a0 As we roll off our TFS 11 work, we\u2019ll see more and more of our effort show up as new service capabilities.\u00a0 That will mean more improvements, faster. The two biggest things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":14617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-3391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tfs"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Last week we rolled out an update to TFSPreview.\u00a0 The majority of it was underlying plumbing changes to improve operations, diagnostics, cost, etc.\u00a0 As we roll off our TFS 11 work, we\u2019ll see more and more of our effort show up as new service capabilities.\u00a0 That will mean more improvements, faster. The two biggest things [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3391\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}