Buck Hodges

Azure DevOps (formerly VSTS and Team Foundation Server)

TFS 2013 - Buck Hodges

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 ...