In a private reply to my recent post on TFS Partitioning , someone raised the question of team site partitioning. Basically, the question is: what should my team store in Version Control and what should we store in the Team Portal (Sharepoint)? The...

Martin Woodward displays his miniature TFS Proxy (and some impresive download speeds), and Dave Glover shows us his tiny TFS server . Nice!

In our discussions with Customer A this week, we focused for quite a while on the differences between the various work partitioning mechanisms in TFS: areas, iterations, and source control organization. At a high level, you can think about them this way...

I'm just 1 day into my road trip , and already I've had some enlightening moments. For example, make darn sure you get a luggage claim ticket when you check in. :) In our meetings with customer A today, we learned they had started down the path of...

I've seen a great mix of basic and advanced questions posted in our MSDN forums lately. Some of these topics are covered in detail in our on-demand MSDN webcasts available here: Visual Studio 2005 Team System: Power in Simplicity . If you're not familiar...

I'm about to embark on 2 weeks of customer visits over the next 3 weeks. I'm really looking forward to the opportunity to see how real enterprise customers are using Team Foundation Server. As I go through the visits, I'll try to blog about my experiences...

On August 6th, Sparx Systems announced a beta of version 6.5 of Sparx Enterprise Architect . Among the numerous new features is support for Team Foundation Server source control as a version control provider. Sparx already includes supoprt for SCC and...

Recently in the TFS Administration Forums , I've seen several posts about topics that are actually fairly well docmented on MSDN. So it occurred to me that maybe people don't know about these docs. Here's a direct link to the root level folder of the...

Martin Woodward just blogged a nice preview of the upcoming Teamprise v2.0. If you're not familiar with Teamprise, it's a multi-platform client for Team Foundation Server. They even have a universal binary format for the Mac (runs on Intel + PowerPC Macs...

Here's a post someone just showed me by Scott Louvau in June 2005 that may give you more insight into what the SDET role at Microsoft is all about. http://blogs.msdn.com/scottlo/archive/2005/06/29/434121.aspx Scott touches on a few key points about...