The Backup/Restore Power Tool we shipped in the most recent Power Tools release was an ambitious project.  It’s one of the larger and more involved Power Tools we’ve ever shipped.  We knew that despite the fact that we did a fair amount of testing...

Last week, I blogged about an ASP.NET security vulnerability that affected TFS: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2010/09/23/security-vulnerability.aspx Yesterday, the ASP.NET team released a patch to fix the vulnerability: http://weblogs.asp...

This fall we will be holding an ALM Summit from November 16 to 18 on the Microsoft Campus in Redmond, Washington. The summit will bring industry leaders in application lifecycle management together with leading companies focused on using ALM to improve...

We've published a case study on our experiences of transitioning CodePlex from TFS 2008 to TFS 2010. There were some pretty substantial benefits. If you find yourself using some kind of shared TFS service and are contemplating upgrading to TFS 2010, I...

A few weeks ago we released a new Power Tool to help you with backing up your TFS server. I blogged about it, including how you can backup Sharepoint and Reporting Services as well . Someone asked me if we had verified with the Sharepoint team that we...

On Friday, a security researcher unveiled a new attack vector against ASP.NET applications. You can read more about it on Scott's blog or on the Microsoft Security Advisory . Because TFS is based on ASP.NET, it is affected by the vulnerability. The ASP...

AIT, in Germany, has just released a Beta of a new task board that works with TFS 2010. It is process template agnostic and looks very cool. Check it out: www.aitgmbh.de/index.php

I just got to Bangalore a few hours ago and will be going to Hyderabad in a couple of days. I can tell you that the ~24 hours of flying to get here has been exhausting. It's early morning here but bed time at home. I left Friday evening and arrived Sunday...

Since I’ve gotten a few questions about it, I decided I’d post the list of bug fixes.  This doesn’t include any bugs associated with new functionality that showed up in this release – only functionality that was in previous releases: Best Practices...

You find the download for the latest version of the Power Tools here: TFS Power Tools Cross Platform Build Extensions MSSCCI Provider (no updates this release) As with the previous release, these require a TFS 2010 client.  If you want Power Tools...