In TFS2008 SP1 and the subsequent power tools release it was possible to create a team project from the command line. You can read Will-Peter’s detailed blog post on Creating a Team Project from the command line in TFS2008 . In TFS2010, it’s still not...

Just like my last blog post on uploading the beta2 process templates to an upgraded beta1 server , I’ll admit that the audience for this blog post is also small. However, we hit this after upgrading our VSTS Pioneer Dogfood TFS server from Beta1 to an...

Update : It turns out that in the final release of Beta2 (instead of the pre-Beta2 build we’re using), we will rename the existing Beta1 templates to “Process Template X (Beta 1)” and upload new versions of the templates – so this won’t be as painful...

(This blog post is part of a series of posts on the new VSTS Pioneer TFS dogfood server .) Everybody loves statistics, so here are the statistics for the first month on the VSTS Pioneer server. Recent Users: 415 Work Item Tracking Users...

(This blog post is part of a series of posts on the new VSTS Pioneer TFS dogfood server .) While running the main TFS server for ~3,500 users in Developer Division we got a pretty good idea of the hardware required to support our enormous number...

August 2009 marks an important milestone for TFS Dogfooding at Microsoft. In 2004 there was a dogfood server for parts of the TFS team , then it expanded to all of Team System (VSTS). Then other teams in Developer Division (DevDiv) saw the value of...

Today there was a question on one of the lists I’m on, it went something like this: Has anyone written a tool that will batch-update WITD to all team projects on a server? Surely this must be a common scenario? One of the built-in Windows commands that...

I got a question from one of our internal email lists today: Our TFS build service is owned by a generic build account – domain\tfsbuild. We have retention policy set up to retain a fixed set of builds. The old builds were deleted when viewed via...

Back in February, I released some of the reports that were created for our internal TFS servers on my blog as the TFS Performance Report Pack . I got countless emails and comments on the fact that some of them didn’t work with SQL Reporting Services 2005...

Last week was my first anniversary of accepting a job with Microsoft and relocating 8000 miles across the Pacific to Seattle, Washington. It’s been an amazing year filled with so many new experiences and challenges. The role I took (Program Manager) was...

As promised last week in my Dogfooding TFS show on the RadioTFS podcast , here is the latest on TFS within Microsoft that myself and Brian have posted about in the past . May had the all-time peak in the total number of unique active users with 15...

Last week I sat down (virtually) with two of our Team System MVP’s - Martin Woodward and Paul Hacker . We had a good chat about TFS at Microsoft which you can listen to on show #22 of the RadioTFS podcast . Play now: Radio TFS #22: Dogfooding TFS...

Since joining Microsoft, I’ve become intimately familiar with running a TFS server for ~3,500 users in Developer Division and the performance characteristics of it. One thing I’ve learnt is that Performance Counters rule. You might observe the server...

The Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1 bits have been available to MSDN subscribers since Monday. Now the bits are available to everybody on microsoft.com/downloads. Visual Studio Team System 2010 Team Foundation Server Beta 1 (rar files, 2.3GB) –...

First of all, see my last post Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1 Download Links for all the download links and installation docs. Also check out Brian Keller’s post on Using a download manager to quickly download Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 . We...

Did you know that there’s a feature in Outlook that prefixes your name automatically when you reply inline like this? When you reply to somebody and start replying inline, it automatically changes the font to a new color and prefixes it with [GrantH]...

Update 6/23/2009 : Due to popular demand, Jim from the Developer Support team at Microsoft has re-created the three reports that required SQL2008 Reporting Services. See the support team blog for more details . Update 7/13/2010: These reports also...

Within Developer Division at Microsoft, we run a very busy server . We’re up to almost ~3,600 active users. Just over 6 months ago, the custom tools that our build labs were using were putting an extraordinary strain on the server. More than 40% of the...

Every month our internal teams put together statistics on the TFS servers deployed at Microsoft. Previous statistics can be found here: September 2008 August 2008 August 2007 Developer Division Dogfood Statistics One of the noteworthy milestones this...

I’ve been looking at my blog stats for the last couple of months to see what people find valuable on my blog and where my traffic comes from. Traffic Sources   Search Keywords It’s clear from my top 25 search keywords that  my posts on the VS2010...

If you are running the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP under Virtual PC or Hyper-V, you should know that the copy of Visual Studio installed in the VPC is set to expire. After January 1, 2009, you will no longer be able to launch the Visual...

Status update: OzTFS, OzMOSS and OzSilverlight have been migrated. Please note the new addresses that you need to send mail to. These three mailing lists are a valuable resource to the Australian community as well as the global community. Please bear...

In my recent trip to Australia , I had some time to walk through the shops. One of the things that really caught my attention was the Asus Eee PC . (It’s pronounced “e p c”). I’d heard about these low-cost, low-power netbooks before but I’d never considered...

My first MSDN document has been published. Team Foundation Server (TFS) and the Open Web Application Security Project (OWASP) Top Ten describes how TFS complies with the ten most common threats for web applications. Recently, our sales guys were working...

The VSTS Rangers have shipped the TFS 2008 Management Pack for SCOM2007 . It is also published in the official System Center Operations Manager 2007 Catalog on TechNet (choose “System Center Operations Manager 2007” from the dropdown list and enter “TFS...