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He who permissions least, permissions best
23 May 07 02:05 PM | Adam Singer | 3 Comments   
I've heard a few questions and comments about our permission model recently. For example, some folks have asked why user in two groups, one granted a permission and one denied the same permission, is denied the permission rather than granted it. The answer Read More...
Open and Switch Case
29 August 06 01:15 PM | Adam Singer | 2 Comments   
A few folks on the forums have asked how they can specify other editors to open files in Team Foundation version control. In particular, Acrobat PDF files have come up a few times . When investigating the issue, I discovered a workaround that I thought Read More...
What you wish for
26 May 06 02:10 PM | Adam Singer | 3 Comments   
As I depart the Version Control team, I'd like to make one final note about a particular request we've heard often. Many folks want us to get the latest version of a file when they check it out for editing. On the surface, this does seem like a good idea. Read More...
The CAT-5's out of the Bag
05 April 06 01:09 PM | Adam Singer | 3 Comments   
I'm sure many of you have read Eric Sink 's " Four Questions ". If you haven't though, I highly recommend it. [Thanks due to Martin Woodward for linking to the post!] Now that we've shipped version one of Team Foundation Server, we've started getting Read More...
Recursion: It's what's for dinner
16 March 06 06:53 PM | Adam Singer | 0 Comments   
Silly though it may be, have you heard that James Manning posted that Buck Hodges posted about Rob Caron talking about Rick LaPlante's public announcement at SD West that Team Foundation Server ships tomorrow ? On behalf of the Version Control QA Team, Read More...
[N]TFS and Alternate Data Streams
16 March 06 03:57 PM | Adam Singer | 0 Comments   
Perhaps you've heard of them . Files in NTFS may have multiple "Alternate Data Streams" (ADS), each with its own contents. It's an interesting concept, certainly, but one that requires all software written for NTFS to buy into it, which is always risky. Read More...
CLR and Present Danger
06 March 06 01:51 PM | Adam Singer | 1 Comments   
Jeff Maxton recently pointed out an issue with Team Foundation and the Windows folder "encrypt contents" option. Briefly, the problem is this. Suppose you want to encrypt your working folders for your Team Foundation workspace. Theoretically, you should Read More...
Test Team vs. The Matrix: Fight!
19 January 06 10:37 AM | Adam Singer | 0 Comments   
For the past few weeks, we've been running our Full Automation Run (FAR) against several dozen different Team Foundation Server configurations. We've tested everything from Workgroups to VPCs, Chinese to Turkish, IPv6 to 64bit machines. We reverently Read More...
Notable
01 December 05 12:31 PM | Adam Singer | 0 Comments   
After a bit of revising and internal processing, I'm the proud author of two TechNotes ! Both are topics I've posted here before, but if you'd like to see them in their next stage of evolution, here they are: TN_1700: Which Team Foundation commands need Read More...
Looking at the world through rose-colored versionspecs
28 November 05 05:10 PM | Adam Singer | 4 Comments   
James ' post on the DateTime versionspec reminded me that I wanted to post a brief summary of versionspecs in Visual Studio Team Foundation's Version Control. There are 5 different flavors of version specifications, each with its own syntax. Their one Read More...
Twelve Step Programs
14 November 05 08:00 AM | Adam Singer | 2 Comments   
Over the past few weeks, I've set up several Visual Studio Team Foundation Servers. Granted, this is something I've done a few dozen times since I first arrived, but I feel like I'm starting to get this down to a science. In any case, I wanted to post Read More...
My voice is my passport
07 November 05 03:03 PM | Adam Singer | 0 Comments   
Locks vs. Permissions Visual Studio's Team Foundation Version Control has a very powerful access control model, permitting administrators to grant groups and individuals only the specific capabilities they need to do get the job done. Team Foundation Read More...
The Origin of the Specs
11 October 05 07:02 PM | Adam Singer | 0 Comments   
According to Wikipedia , there are over 800,000 species of insect, only 82,000 of which are " true bugs ". The same sort of thing can be said about work items in Visual Studio Team System if you drop a few orders of magnitude. Here's a quick note on the Read More...
Because it is not the sky
07 October 05 12:50 PM | Adam Singer | 0 Comments   
We're testing the Japanese Beta3 version of Visual Studio Team System's Team Foundation Server. Of course, most of us don't actually know any Japanese, so we have to rely on computer translators to help us figure out what's going on. Not all of the translations Read More...
Playing with Power
16 September 05 05:57 PM | Adam Singer | 4 Comments   
As Chris says, we're very near the Beta 3 ship and the "ship it!" mantra is strong. We've done some pretty crazy testing during this test pass, including some of my current favorites- intentionally self-induced network connectivity issues, full disks, Read More...
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