TFS 2013

Moving TFS to cloud cadence and Visual Studio Online

February 27, 2015 Feb 27, 2015 02/27/15

Buck Hodges

We get quite a few questions from customers on how we made the transition to shipping both an on-premises product and a cloud service. We moved from shipping every 2-3 years to shipping Visual Studio Online every three weeks and TFS every 3-4 months. You’ve probably seen the great set of vignettes at Scaling Agile across the Enterprise. ...

How to provide non-admins access to activity and job pages

September 15, 2014 Sep 15, 2014 09/15/14

Buck Hodges

When we shipped TFS 2012, we introduced a feature in the web UI that makes it easy to look at the activity and job history. In the post I mentioned that you had to be an admin to be able to see the information. A question about this came up last week, and Sean Lumley, one of the folks who built the feature, pointed out there is a specific ...

Patch for issue with Visual Studio 2013 Queue Build dialog

November 13, 2013 Nov 13, 2013 11/13/13

Buck Hodges

In Visual Studio 2013 and Team Explorer 2013 there is a bug that will cause the “What do you want to build?” combo box to be disabled and the entire Parameters tab to be blank. We have now released a patch to fix this bug: KB 2898341. This bug occurs when using VS or TE 2013 with a TFS 2013 server. We introduced the bug at the very...

Updated Team Foundation Server 2013 download addressing web and installation path issues

November 8, 2013 Nov 8, 2013 11/8/13

Buck Hodges

Today we have updated the TFS 2013 installation packages both on the web download page and in MSDN subscriber downloads. The reason is that we found two bugs that we wanted to address broadly. We’ve made changes to be able to catch these types of issues in the future. Here are details on the two fixes. Fixed: Red error box when using ...

Git and HTTPS with TFS 2013

October 21, 2013 Oct 21, 2013 10/21/13

Buck Hodges

Philip Kelley has written a great blog post that explains using HTTPS with Team Foundation Server 2013. In it he explains basic auth and Windows auth among other things. If you are using a self-signed certificate, the post will tell you how to add it to your client so that git.exe will work. Git network operations in Visual Studio 2013 ...

Team Foundation Service 2013 RC is go-live–use it in production

September 13, 2013 Sep 13, 2013 09/13/13

Buck Hodges

Have you upgraded to TFS 2013 RC yet? It’s a supported, “go-live” release that you can use in production. We are using it ourselves in production our biggest internal server (I’ve written about that server before). Download TFS 2013 RC and upgrade. You can check out what’s new here (hint: the background image at...

How to see activity and job history in TFS 2012

March 30, 2013 Mar 30, 2013 03/30/13

Buck Hodges

[Update 9/15/14] Here you can find permissions for these pages. [Update 4/24/15] Added information about filtering job history by result. With TFS 2012, we introduced a new feature in the web UI that makes it easy to look at the activity and job history on your TFS 2012 server (this feature was first introduced in 2012 RTM). Before the 2012 ...

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