A month or so ago we started seeing crashes on the SQL Server associated with one of our dogfood TFS servers. The crashes ultimately resulted in us having to restore the database from backup. It was a significant work disturbance and an important thing...

I kind of checked out of the blogosphere just before the holidays and haven’t resurfaced.  I feel bad about it.  I will say I had a good holiday.  I took a full 2 1/2 weeks off and did pretty much nothing but farm work.  It was a great...

In the last release of the Team Foundation Server 2010 Power Tools we focused on improving the experience for developers in Visual Studio and using the Shell Extensions inside Windows Explorer.  Today we just released a new update of the Team Foundation...

Yesterday I wrote about the updates we’ve made to the service with our December update. Today, I’m here to deliver on the promise of providing another invite code that people can use to sign up. If you’ve already created an account,...

Today we are updating the Team Foundation Service (running on Azure) with a new build.  You can read more about the features in the new update on the Visual Studio ALM blog .  The process of updating all of the accounts is ongoing as I type...

DiscountASP.net just recently expanded their hosted TFS offering. You can read more about it on their site and on their blog post . I can imaging people might wonder why I’d talk about this when I talk so much about our current hosted preview...

Next week I’m getting ready to hit the road for a bunch of conferences and customer visits.  I’m looking forward to getting out and talking with people about what they are doing and what’s coming in VS 11. It all starts with the ALM Summit in Redmond...

Several months ago I first started hearing customer reports of TFS databases growing out of control.  Every once in a while I’d hear of someone with a database growing by 100GB a week or something equally nutty.  Previously that had been the...

The Team Foundation Server 11 Developer Preview introduces a number of simplifications and enhancements in Lab Management.  The primary one you will notice in the developer preview is the introduction of 'Standard environments'.   ...

Along with the launch of the Team Foundation Service preview we announced at the BUILD conference, we released a new client patch for the VS 2010 family of products.  You can get it here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=212065&clcid=0x409...