{"id":5613,"date":"2004-06-04T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2004-06-04T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/buckh\/2004\/06\/04\/vsts-newsgroups\/"},"modified":"2004-06-04T17:46:00","modified_gmt":"2004-06-04T17:46:00","slug":"vsts-newsgroups","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/vsts-newsgroups\/","title":{"rendered":"VSTS Newsgroups"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/vstudio\/teamsystem\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">VSTS 2005 page<\/a> mentions the newsgroups for VSTS (in the Community Resources section beside the &#8220;Ask the Team&#8221; column). It doesn&#8217;t stand out, though, and so a lot of people may not realize they are there. The newsgroups are actively monitored by a large number of VSTS folks, so it&#8217;s a great way to interact and provide feedback (you&#8217;ll usually get a quick reply to any question you post there). <\/p>\n<p>You can read the newsgroups just using your browser at <a title=\"VSTS newsgroups\" href=\"http:\/\/communities.microsoft.com\/newsgroups\/default.asp?icp=whidbey&amp;slcid=us\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/communities.microsoft.com\/newsgroups\/default.asp?icp=whidbey&amp;slcid=us<\/a>. The browser interface isn&#8217;t very good for keeping up with the newsgroups, though. \n<\/p>\n<p><b>Viewing these Newsgroups with an NNTP Newsreader<\/b>&nbsp; \n<\/p>\n<p>You can use Outlook Express or other NNTP newsreader.&nbsp; Since these are private newsgroups, your server will require you to logon using the following information: \n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b>Server:<\/b> privatenews.microsoft.com \n<\/li>\n<li><b>Account name:<\/b> privatenewsVSUser \n<\/li>\n<li><b>Password:<\/b> Password \n<\/li>\n<li>Note that the password is <i>case-sensitive<\/i>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is the list of the newsgroups with rough descriptions. \n<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Microsoft.private.whidbey.teamsystem.general &#8211; VSTS overall \n<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft.private.whidbey.teamsystem.architect &#8211; modeling and design tools (Whitehorse) \n<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft.private.whidbey.teamsystem.architect.appdesign &#8211; Whitehorse app designer \n<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft.private.whidbey.teamsystem.architect.deployment &#8211; Whitehorse deployment designer \n<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft.private.whidbey.teamsystem.developer &#8211; developer tools (PreFast, FxCop, Perf tools) \n<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft.private.whidbey.teamsystem.developer.classdesign &#8211; Whitehorse class designer \n<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft.private.whidbey.teamsystem.tester &#8211; testing tools \n<\/li>\n<li>Microsoft.private.whidbey.teamsystem.projectmanager &#8211; project management tools \n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Microsoft.private.whidbey.teamsystem.teamfoundation &#8211; source control, change management, work item tracking<\/strong> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The VSTS 2005 page mentions the newsgroups for VSTS (in the Community Resources section beside the &#8220;Ask the Team&#8221; column). It doesn&#8217;t stand out, though, and so a lot of people may not realize they are there. The newsgroups are actively monitored by a large number of VSTS folks, so it&#8217;s a great way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":94,"featured_media":10268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-5613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-team-foundation"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>The VSTS 2005 page mentions the newsgroups for VSTS (in the Community Resources section beside the &#8220;Ask the Team&#8221; column). It doesn&#8217;t stand out, though, and so a lot of people may not realize they are there. The newsgroups are actively monitored by a large number of VSTS folks, so it&#8217;s a great way to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/94"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/buckh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}