{"id":6861,"date":"2009-03-10T14:35:57","date_gmt":"2009-03-10T14:35:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2009\/03\/10\/lots-of-news\/"},"modified":"2018-08-14T00:22:14","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T00:22:14","slug":"lots-of-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/lots-of-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Lots of News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I don&rsquo;t know what it is.&nbsp; I&rsquo;ve been complaining for a while now about being busy and I just can&rsquo;t seem to shake it.&nbsp; In fact it only seems to get worse every week.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m on my second straight week in Redmond this week &ndash; family&rsquo;s not happy about that \ud83d\ude42&nbsp; I&rsquo;ve been trying to figure out what is taking so much of my time.&nbsp; I think it&rsquo;s many things.&nbsp; In the last 2 months I&rsquo;ve spent an inordinate amount of time reviewing progress across all of VS\/VSTS2010\/.NET4.0 trying to understand the project state and help determine the Beta 1 release schedule and estimate the Beta 2 and RTM schedule.&nbsp; The other &ldquo;new&rdquo; thing that&rsquo;s been taking up time is work beginning to plan our next release (no code name &ndash; we&rsquo;ll probably call it something boring like VS11 :)).&nbsp; We had our first leadership offsite on the topic last month and spent 2.5 days with our MVPs talking about it this week.&nbsp; Other than that it&rsquo;s same-old same-old: Talk with customers, manage development, play with the product, work with partners, &hellip;\nSo, this is the first post in quite a while.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m committed to getting back into my cadence of 10-15 a month but I&rsquo;m not sure exactly when that will be.&nbsp; At least I&rsquo;m mostly keeping up with blog comments and answering people&rsquo;s questions \ud83d\ude42&nbsp; This is going to be a recap of a bunch of miscellaneous news (some of it kind of old &ndash; sorry about that).<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Martin Danner has published a new CodePlex project called <a href=\"http:\/\/tfsadapters.codeplex.com\/\">Team Foundation Adapters<\/a>.&nbsp; It is a set of mock objects to help with unit testing TFS extensions.<\/li>\n<li>CHOULANT Noham has published an update to his Codeplex project of <a href=\"http:\/\/pstfs.codeplex.com\/\">TFS PowerShell extensions<\/a>.&nbsp; We are talking with him about how it might be possible to take his work as contributions and combine it with the TFS Power Tools PowerShell commandlets.&nbsp; Obviously there are lots of challenges there but if we could do that it would be a first for us and very unusual for Microsoft.&nbsp; We&rsquo;ll see where it leads us.<\/li>\n<li>Mohammed Alam has published a new tool that enables <a href=\"http:\/\/code.msdn.microsoft.com\/erep\">email notifications when load tests complete<\/a>.&nbsp; These notifications include the load test results.<\/li>\n<li>The <a href=\"http:\/\/tfsadmin.codeplex.com\/\">TFS Admin tool<\/a> on CodePlex has proved to be a VERY valuable resource for people.&nbsp; Unfortunately it has been slowly atrophying from lack of attention.&nbsp; The TFS team has been so busy getting TFS 2010 ready for Beta 1 we just haven&rsquo;t had time to think about it.&nbsp; Thankfully, at the MVP summit this week, Michael Ruminer volunteer to drive a community effort to refresh the tool.&nbsp; The most pressing need is to make it work when TFS is installed on Windows 2008.&nbsp; However, he&rsquo;d like to do more.&nbsp; So, if you have requests, please go to the CodePlex project and register your suggestions.<\/li>\n<li>Over the past year or so, Microsoft has been developing a standard baseline TFS process template for Microsoft product teams to use.&nbsp; It is designed to capture many of our processes and practices and prevent teams from having to reinvent them.&nbsp; It is called the <a href=\"http:\/\/mpt.codeplex.com\/\">Microsoft Process Template<\/a> (or MPT for short).&nbsp; With the help of Ed Blankenship (another of our devout MVPs) we have published the template on CodePlex for anyone to see\/use.&nbsp; Now, a word of caution&hellip;&nbsp; This not your standard &ldquo;Agile&rdquo; process template.&nbsp; I actually suspect few people will want to use it directly.&nbsp; It is very customized to processes we use to ship very large projects with thousands of people.&nbsp; Many of you will find it too heavy weight.&nbsp; However, it is, at a minimum, interesting.&nbsp; And with luck, you may find some stuff in there that will give you some ideas on things you might do with your own processes.&nbsp; You can read more about it on Ed&rsquo;s blog here: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edsquared.com\/2009\/02\/27\/Microsoft+Process+Template.aspx\">http:\/\/www.edsquared.com\/2009\/02\/27\/Microsoft+Process+Template.aspx<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Microsoft TFS support team has created a blog to share information about troubleshooting and fixing issues with TFS.&nbsp; As they learn things through support interactions with customers they write about it in their blog.&nbsp; It&rsquo;s a useful resource for helping you understand TFS better: <a title=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/dstfs\/\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/dstfs\/\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/dstfs\/<\/a><\/li>\n<li>A couple of weeks ago, we announced a partnership with Quest Software to provide support for Oracle using the Team System Development\/Database Edition tools.&nbsp; You can read more about it here: <a title=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/features\/2009\/feb09\/02-24ZanderQA.mspx\" href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/features\/2009\/feb09\/02-24ZanderQA.mspx\">http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/presspass\/features\/2009\/feb09\/02-24ZanderQA.mspx<\/a> or here <a title=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/dseven\/archive\/2009\/02\/24\/oracle-support-announced-for-visual-studio-team-system-2010-development.aspx\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/dseven\/archive\/2009\/02\/24\/oracle-support-announced-for-visual-studio-team-system-2010-development.aspx\">http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/dseven\/archive\/2009\/02\/24\/oracle-support-announced-for-visual-studio-team-system-2010-development.aspx<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Notion Solutions, one of our best services partners, recently entered the Team System add-on space by releasing &ldquo;Notion Tools for Team System v1.0&rdquo;.&nbsp; The include <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notionsolutions.com\/Products\/Pages\/NotionTimesheet.aspx\">Notion Timesheet<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notionsolutions.com\/Products\/Pages\/NotionWorkOrganizer.aspx\">Notion Work Organizer<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notionsolutions.com\/Products\/Pages\/NotionWorkPlanner.aspx\">Notion Work Planner<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.notionsolutions.com\/Products\/Pages\/NotionWorkItemControlLibrary.aspx\">Notion Work Item Controls<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>That&rsquo;s all I can find in my inbox from the past few weeks but I&rsquo;m sure I&rsquo;ve missed something.&nbsp; I&rsquo;ll try not to let so much build up again.<\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I don&rsquo;t know what it is.&nbsp; I&rsquo;ve been complaining for a while now about being busy and I just can&rsquo;t seem to shake it.&nbsp; In fact it only seems to get worse every week.&nbsp; I&rsquo;m on my second straight week in Redmond this week &ndash; family&rsquo;s not happy about that \ud83d\ude42&nbsp; I&rsquo;ve been trying to [&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-6861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tfs"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>I don&rsquo;t know what it is.&nbsp; I&rsquo;ve been complaining for a while now about being busy and I just can&rsquo;t seem to shake it.&nbsp; 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