Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

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Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges
Nov 22, 2017

VSTS: Lessons Learned Doing DevOps at Microsoft at Scale

Last week I gave a keynote on DevOps at VS Live! 2017 in Orlando. In this talk I cover four main things. The video is now online, and you ...

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Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges
Jan 18, 2017

Brand new office in North Carolina

Right after Thanksgiving we moved the North Carolina team to a brand new office in Morrisville, just two miles from our old location. We were at the previous ...

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Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges
Oct 12, 2016

How to configure a TFS proxy to work with Team Services

If you are using Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) with Visual Studio Team Services, you can configure the Team Foundation Server Proxy to cache files for ...

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Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges
Sep 30, 2016

Controlling exposure through feature flags in VS Team Services

One question that I often get from customers is how we manage exposing features in the service. Features may not be complete or need to be revealed at a ...

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Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges
Sep 28, 2016

TFS 15 RC2 is available and ready for production use

We have now released TFS "15" RC2. We are using it in production internally. It is fully supported for production use. You can upgrade from TFS 2012 or newer to...

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Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges
May 10, 2016

Would you like SSH turned on for your Team Services account?

[Update 5/29/2016] We will be turning on SSH for all existing accounts once we finish deploying sprint 100 (hopefully by the end of this week). We are ...

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Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges
Apr 1, 2016

TFS 2015 Update 2: Gated checkin for the new build system (build vNext)

When we shipped the new build system with TFS 2015, we ran out of time to add gated checkin. A lot of customers depend on gated checkin for their workflows, and...

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Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges
Apr 1, 2016

How to create a team project in the web UI in TFS 2015 Update 2

You no longer have to use the version of Visual Studio Team Explorer that matches your server to create a team project. For the first time ever, you can now ...

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Buck Hodges
Buck Hodges
Mar 31, 2016

Using VS Team Services Web Hooks with Azure Functions

Today at the Build 2016 conference, Azure announced a new feature called Azure Functions. Here’s a quick description from the main page. Azure Functions is ...

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