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Day 1 Watch the Live Streaming Keynote: Ray Ozzie, Dean Hachamovitch, and Scott Guthrie Day 2 Watch Steve Ballmer and Guy Kawasaki Live

Last week I had the pleasure to sit down and chat with a couple of female developer evangelists who were at SVC for our Women's Leadership and Development Conference. We were fortunate to have Lynn Langit as a speaker for the conference - talking about...

I was soooo ecstatic when I found out eScrum was going to be available on our IT supported TFS instance. Evangelism Network started really scrumming in March when I moved into the team. As with any process it takes a while to get the hang of things and...

Farewell Team System... Hello Channel 9! Or to be more specific - the Evangelism Network team which brings you Channel 9 , On10 and VisitMix . I haven't been blogging about Team System since last fall due to major changes in my life since then. Recently...

Recently I've been doing a bit of soul searching and trying to figure out how to blend my work with some social good. I haven't figured that out yet, but by chance a couple things came across my email that I thought was really great. Just by using...

Recently my teammate Brian Keller tagged me . It seems to be this blog game where you play "Tag - your it" and the tagged victim :-) needs to reveal 5 things most people don't know about them. Well ok, haven't been blogging for a few months now, so I...

Every time I hear a reference to our upcoming release of Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals referred as “Datadude” I see images of surfer dudes in California with flowery board shorts waving their hand back and forth with pinky and...

I stumbled on Ken's short demo on C9 today showing off the refactoring feature of VSTE for Database Professionals . Nice job Ken!

Recently there have been internal discussions about the TFS Proxy and one of the engineers shared some information I thought would be useful to post: Here are some of the best practices for TFS Proxy Follow hardware recommendations in TFS...

There have been a lot of questions about the Load Agent & Controller for VSTS. Here are some FAQs to set this straight: Q. What is the official name of the Load Agent (& Controller)? A. Visual Studio 2005 Team Test Load Agent (TTLA) . Currently...

Check this out - a powertool for making TFS admin a bit easier: http://www.gotdotnet.com/codegallery/codegallery.aspx?id=cea30722-cd0a-4ef4-9c75-a5a5e4932b05

For you VS2003 users who want to take advantage of TFS, a beta version of the MSSCII provider for TFS has been released: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=32202966-EF04-442F-8C5C-88BDF15F551C&displaylang=en For more information...

This is totally unrelated to VSTS - like totally... :-) As my 1 year wedding anniversary is right around the corner, I dug up my OOF message from that time: I am OOF - going to the chapel within a church within a city which all bear my name, getting...

Interested in seeing some of the partner integrations to Visual Studio Team System? Catch the video recording from last month's VSLive keynote: http://www.ftponline.com/channels/net/reports/vslivesf/2006/soma/ (Select Listen to the audio and watch...

I just stumbled on this Channel 9 interview of Lori chatting about why she's still excited to be working at Microsoft after 15 years. http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/WM_IN (Go to the interview from 1/3/2006)

I mean the TFS RC bits on MSDN subscriber downloads :-). And a quick correction on the VS SDK download - go get the Feb CTP and you'll also get DSL Toolkit and VSTA in there with the last build of the TFS ext kit.

Team Foundation Server Release Candidate will be available for download by MSDN Subscribers later today. Rob has put together some detailed notes here on upgrading to the RC (as well as some incentives for feedback): http://blogs.msdn.com/robcaron...

We've actually got quite a number of case studies posted on MSDN, but some of them are a bit difficult to find due to the way the documents are currently flagged. We're fixing that, but in the meanwhile here's a cheat sheet listing the ones I know about...

A pretty common question we get here - what's the x-platform story for TFS when the organization has dev's working on other platforms? Well here's an opportunity to check out a partner solution that answers that question: Teamprise MSDN Webcast ...

I was trying to get a couple vpc's to network together using the Local only network setting the other day with no success. I futzed around for a while with various network settings, etc. and finally decided to ping around for some expert advice. This...

Jeff Beehler from the product group recently blogged about the upcoming TFS RC and the need for feedback: http://blogs.msdn.com/jeffbe/archive/2006/01/19/514801.aspx Get ready... get set... install!

You can use the following link to order a trial version of Team System and see for yourself what all the excitement is about: https://www.tryvs2005.com/profile.aspx ? Also - if you're setting this up a single server deployment, make sure to follow...

Enjoy the recorded keynote: http://www.microsoft.com/winme/0511/25332/VBS_launch_Keynote_56K-100k-300k_mbr.asx