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Fixed the incorrect order of the first column on the Kanban board on the service

After the Mar 4 update of the service, we received quite a bit of feedback about a bug on the Kanban board. It turned out that the first column on the board was not ordered by stack rank anymore, but by closed date. Since the closed date is empty in the first column, the order of the items in the column was random. Although our next ...

Use Git 0.8.0.0 to run scheduled builds and resolve conflicts

<!-- // By: Andy Lewis and Matthew Mitrik Today we released Visual Studio Tools for Git 0.8.0.0. Install this release to get not only fixes to numerous bugs, (for details see the release notes on the gallery page), but also an enhanced conflict resolution experience. You can now also create scheduled automated builds. Got the latest ...

TFS Update 2 Offers Settings Preservation for In-Place Upgrades

UPDATE: Beginning with TFS 2012 Update 3, we will preserve your settings in the AT-Only wizard too.  Build settings will also be preserved when upgrading Build servers.  This functionality is built into a pop-up on the first page of the Build wizard that asks if you would like to restore your previous settings (click yes).  Beginning with ...

Fixes for TFS 2012 Update 1 (aka Cumulative Update 1 for Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 Update 1)

We have now released a patch with a set of fixes for TFS 2012 Update 1. Many of you saw that we released a patch in early January and then pulled it down. This is the re-release.Shipping major changes to the server on this much faster cadence has been a learning experience for us. Brian wrote about some of the lessons we learned here. It turns...