I have not been a really frequent blogger in the last 1,5 years so I decided to officially retire my blog and recommend other blogs for you to stay up to date. Background is that I had really been busy selling the product and be sure my motivation and...

Just in from Gartner:  VSTS is a Leader Gartner published its 2009 Magic Quadrant for Software Change and Configuration Management for Distributed Platforms. In their evaluation, Gartner ranks Microsoft as a leader in the space, based on Visual Studio...

2 interessting updates for MSDN Subscribers were announced recently:   #1 Windows Home Server Releasing to MSDN Subscribers Windows Home Server is available for MSDN Subscribers of all levels. Subscribers can directly download it today. #2 Visual...

I am very excited that we will have the 2nd Team System Conference here in Munich only a good month from now. We want to drive last years conference success forward to a new dimension and this is really the event where you should be when you are interested...

Happy new year - 2009 will be a great Team System year!! VSTS 2010 will improve and get further and what I often hear from customers is the question “How can I get ready for VSTS2010”. The true answer is: adopt VSTS2008 today and learn as much as you...

If you can't wait till May next year for TeamConf 2009 in Munich we have the solution:     More information on this great conference can be found here: www.teamconf.ch   My personal recommendation as the conference is organized through...

I am very excited about our current announcement : We decided that the functionality of the Team System Editions: Development Edition and Database Edition will be combined in one single Edition in the Rosario timeframe. The big benefit we offer our customers...

I am very excited that Ken Schwaber one of the founders of SCRUM has confirmed as keynote speaker for TeamConf 2009 . As we work with customers SCRUM seems to be the process that people really use or plan/want to use. It has gotten something like a synonym...

I am pretty fascinated what has happened around the Team System ecosystem regarding to Agile Software Development in the last month. I want to highlight a few things that you should not miss, if you are interested in this space: First we released a Whitepaper...

I want to be sure to get a blog post on this out as long as the impression is still fresh. Currently I am in Seattle at our so called Microsoft TechReady7. TechReady is a Microsoft internal conference that gives us the chance to hear directly from all...

  Wir möchten zu 2 Veranstaltungen in der gleichen Novemberwoche Woche in Berlin einladen. Die XTOPIA findet schon zum Zweiten mal statt und bringt das Thema User Experience/Design - Development und Business in einer Konferenz zusammen. 16....

From time-to-time I try to check which Team System blogs I regularly look at and I though sharing this with you might be pretty helpful: A really great new "German" blog http://www.tfsblog.de/ was started by AIT AG one of our German Team System...

I just saw that I never blogged the information that we have fully installed Team System VPCs available as TRIAL downloads. This is extremely helpful if you want to get a first look into Team System or play around a bit without the need to order hardware...

AS already mentioned we captured a bunch of sessions at TeamConf in April. Now 4 of them are Online . You can find them here: http://www.microsoft.com/germany/msdn/events/teamconf.mspx . Including Keynotes from Ivar Jacobson and Sam Guckenheimer! Have...

I wrote quite a lot about TeamConf 2008 beforehand but got lost in workload after the conference, not finding the time for writing a review. The first "Team System Only" Conference world wide was a great success . We had over 250 attendees and...

I really hear this question quite often and the answer is not easy: If you use Team Portal you are able to profit from all SharePoint Collaboration possibilities, but you don't get Versioning/Labeling with the related Source Code. If you store Documents...

Sonntag 2.0 – ein Mini-Barcamp zum Thema: Web 2.0 und Sicherheits-Aspekte Schon mal auf einem Barcamp gewesen? Am Sonntag den 25.05.2008  findet unser erstes Mini- Barcamp in München statt zum Thema: Web 2.0 und Sicherheits-Aspekte. ...

The ones who missed the launch or interesting sessions can download presentations and video recordings on the Launch Portal .   The following Team System related content can be downloaded:   Erfolgreiche Softwareprojekte mit Visual Studio Team...

Die Teilnehmer der Launch-Veranstaltung in Frankfurt konnten bei der kostenlosen Software zwischen der englischen und der deutschen Sprachversionen wählen. Da beim Visual Studio Team System 2008 Team Foundation Server (TFS) ein nachträgliches...

Another Team System Conference News: Kevin Kelly is a Senior Product Manager at Microsoft responsible for all Team Foundation Server marketing. Before that Kevin was a leader in developing Team Foundation Server (TFS) serving as Principal Program Manager...

Security 360° - das bedeutet Sicherheit aus der Rundum-Perspektive. Microsoft bietet auf dieser Veranstaltung einen umfassenden Überblick zum Thema „Sicherheit in der Softwareentwicklung“ - für Entwickler, Projektleiter, Architekten...

We have waited long for it but now a fully installed VPC is available for public download : This virtual machine is running Windows Server 2003 Enterprise Edition, SP2. It contains a full installation of Team Foundation Server 2008, Team Build 2008, Team...

I am really excited to give you the latest information on the German Team System Conference April 22th-24th in Munich. TeamConf will have two super-interesting Keynotes: Ivar Jacobson speaking on the topic "Enough of Process – Let’s do...

Hearing this from customers a bunch of times now I want to point out, that you should carefully decide if you really want to use a localized TFS Version . There is NO supported WAY to change the chosen TFS language after you have created Team Projects...

Today is the third day of the German Launch of Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and Visual Studio 2008 in Frankfurt. I am more then just a bit excited: We had 6.000+ attendees at the Launch and additional 1.500 at the parallel SharePoint Conference...