I’m pleased to welcome Willy-Peter Schaub to the Team System team as our newest Ranger.  Willy is a former Microsoft MVP from South Africa (his old blog can be found here: http://dotnet.org.za/willy/ ) and has recently joined us to help further the Ranger mission of accelerating the adoption of...

The Radio TFS folks called me at home just before the holidays and spent the better part of an hour talking about what I do, some of the history of Team System and where we’re headed with our 2010 release.  As I’ve mentioned previously , it’s a fun format for getting some of the behind-the-scenes...

I’m starting to sound like a broken record, but the VSTS Rangers have shipped again! This time, in the form of guidance for branching strategies using Team Foundation Server. You can find this release on Codeplex: http://www.codeplex.com/TFSBranchingGuideII Selecting the right branching strategy is...

The Team System Rangers have delivered again!  This time it’s a comprehensive Management Pack for TFS 2008 working with System Center 2007.  This release represents an amazing amount of effort and coordination between the Ranger, the TFS product team, the System Center team, Microsoft Consulting...

The Team System Rangers have shipped again!  This time they’re have built on the success of the WCF Load Testing Tool and have applied that same approach to SQL.  You can find this tool on our Codeplex site: SQL Load Test . Here are the details from that site: Project Description This tool...

From all indications, Microsft Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) adoption is growing quickly as it provides an easy way to share information, facilitate collaboration, manage content, and implement workflow within enterprises.  We use it daily here on our team to store documents, and share project...

The Team System Rangers have shipped again! Last Friday, we published our Ranger Load Test Report Generator to Codeplex. We decided to post this to the existing Load Test Reports Codplex site for customer convenience. The Load Test Report Generator contains a utility and a set of SQL Server Reporting...

I'm happy to announce that the Team System Rangers have just refreshed the Project Server 2007 to TFS connector that was originally released last year. This version has been made compatible with the recent release of TFS 2008. In addition, we've fixed a number of the most commonly reported bugs from...

The VSTS Rangers have done it again! They've identified a gap in our current product offering that was blocking it's adoption by a major customer and found a way to deliver tooling to fill the gap. In this case, the challenge at hand was load testing an application that was utilizing the new Windows...

As more and more people are using TFS, we have been hearing requests to help customers migrate Team Projects from one TFS server to another. Several scenarios are common including: moving a single project from one TFS server to another consolidating projects from separate TFS servers on to a single server...

The Team System Rangers have done it again. Their mission is the accelerate adoption of Team System so they're always on the look out for those things that might be blocking customers from deploying and using our tools. Based on repeated customer requests, they've been focused recently on collecting...

Brian Keller recently interviewed Lenny Fenster, the lead VSTS Ranger on the TFS-Project Server Connector , about the project. If you want to learn more about what we did and why, I'd recommend taking the time to watch this interview .

Brian Keller just announced an upcoming webcast entirely focused on the recently released TFS-Project Server Connector scheduled for September 17, 2007. Since we released the initial drop of the connector a little over a month ago, it's gotten quite a bit of attention. We've found and fixed a few bugs...