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Thursday, August 30, 2007 12:57 PM

Support details for TFS Beta 2

I've gotten a few questions recently about exactly what "go-live" of TFS Beta 2 means and how one goes about getting support. "Go-live" means that we believe Team Foundation Server 2008 Beta 2 (TFS Beta2) is ready for production use. Because TFS is such
Posted by bharry | 8 Comments
Thursday, August 30, 2007 11:13 AM

Fixes for a couple of TFS Beta 2 install issues

We've been collecting Dr. Watson reports and user bug reports of issues encountered installing TFS Beta 2. Unfortunately, the success rate is not as high as we would like. Yesterday we released an update that will address 2 of the issues we've seen people
Posted by bharry | 1 Comments
Wednesday, August 29, 2007 3:15 PM

All VS 2008 Beta 2 languages have now been released

If you've been waiting for French or German (or Russian .NET Framework), you can get them now! Visual Studio Team System 2008 Beta 2 Team Suite Japanese: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=428C076F-E3EF-4290-9FF4-F6FD8F180B7D&displaylang=ja
Posted by bharry | 3 Comments
Tuesday, August 28, 2007 11:55 AM

Upgrading to Win2K3 SP2

We've recently been having some problems with client hangs in our dogfood TFS environment. It has taken quite a while and quite a long breadcrumb trail to diagnose the problem. I thought I'd share it with it in case you have seen similar things or want
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Tuesday, August 28, 2007 6:53 AM

Orcas Beta 2 builds released for additional languages

The next set to be released are what we call CCK - Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and Korean. Soon we will also be releasing French and German. In all, for RTM, we will be releasing support for 9 languages. CHS TFS: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=053E83D0-DEB4-4EBB-B4C8-CBFFE928B4AA&displaylang=zh-cn
Posted by bharry | 13 Comments
Monday, August 20, 2007 3:18 PM

Improving our communication with the community

I got some feedback on a recent post about how annoying it can be to track down information about VSTS. The post complained about lack of "official" content and blog posts that chain to other blog posts etc. Well a few of us got together recently to talk
Posted by bharry | 6 Comments
Thursday, August 16, 2007 10:15 AM

TFS/Project Server 2007 Connector

I've written before about the TFS <-> Project Server 2007 Connector that the VSTS Ranger team built. Check out this new Channel 9 video with Lenny (one of the developers of it). He talks a bit about the Rangers and the projects they have undertaken.
Posted by bharry | 0 Comments
Wednesday, August 15, 2007 2:23 PM

TFS 2008 Beta 2 expiration date

I responded earlier to a comment on one of my posts about the Beta 2 expiration date. At the time I wasn't 100% certain what it is. I have found out that it is March 15th 2008. I know the Beta 2 TFS server will stop functioning on that date. I believe
Posted by bharry | 9 Comments
Tuesday, August 14, 2007 7:41 AM

TF30162: Task "SharePointPortal" from Group "Portal" failed

I suspect a lot of people are going to be seeing this message in the coming months and I want to get out in front of it. This error occurs when you create a new Team Project using the TFS 2005 client against a WSS 3.0 server. The most common way you will
Posted by bharry | 12 Comments
Monday, August 13, 2007 8:55 AM

Awesome Posters!

One of our partners in South Africa has been creating VS and Team System oriented posters for a while now. I blogged about this 9 months or so ago but they just keep producing them and I thought it was worth another mention. These posters are really handy
Posted by bharry | 5 Comments
Monday, August 13, 2007 8:45 AM

DBPro Power Tools released

The VS Team System Database Edition team has released a set of Power Tools to work with the 2005 version of DBPro. There's a ton of really valuable stuff in here, including improved refactoring support, more data generation, msbuild tasks and more. Check
Posted by bharry | 3 Comments
Friday, August 10, 2007 7:32 AM

The Japanese version of VS 2008 Beta 2 is now available

日本のみなさん、おはようございます。 Part of our work leading up to shipping a product is investing in getting ready for localized versions of it. Today we released the Japanese version of Beta 2 and are looking forward to feedback on how well we've done. Are any fields
Posted by bharry | 2 Comments
Wednesday, August 08, 2007 12:35 PM

Final TFS 2008 Feature List

Gee, time flies when you are having fun. I can't believe it's been another 4 months since my last post on Orcas features. At this point TFS 2008 is basically done! We've got a few bugs left to fix and we are still taking feedback from Beta 2 but we're
Posted by bharry | 141 Comments
Tuesday, August 07, 2007 4:28 PM

Patterns & Practices releases TFS guidance

The Patterns & Practices team has just released some really good and pretty comprehensive guidance on how to structure your team development using Team System and Team Foundation Server. It's going to be available in a variety of forms, including
Posted by bharry | 1 Comments
Tuesday, August 07, 2007 11:43 AM

August DevDiv Dogfood Statistics

I think I missed posting dogfood stats last month - sorry about that. It's just been so busy with all of the recent releases going on, it's been difficult to find time to do it. The “big change” in the past couple of months is that the Visual Studio central
Posted by bharry | 7 Comments
Monday, August 06, 2007 9:10 AM

Work Item Tracking Enhancements in the Aug Rosario CTP

Perhaps, over the week end, a few of you have had a chance to play around with the Aug CTP of the Rosario release of Visual Studio Team System. This post is to give you a little bit of insight into some of the new things you can do with work item tracking.
Posted by bharry | 14 Comments
Sunday, August 05, 2007 7:32 AM

Updated GAT/GAX released

This is a great example of what we can accomplish together by partnering. The original plan for GAT and GAX was to wait and update them with VS 2008 releases later this year. After Beta 1, you gave feedback that these were very important to some of you
Posted by bharry | 2 Comments
Saturday, August 04, 2007 6:33 AM

Rosario August CTP Released!

Today we released the first CTP release for the Rosario version of Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. You can download the VPC to try it our here . You can read more detail about it here . As you'll recall from previous postings, our 2 "pillars" for
Posted by bharry | 10 Comments
Thursday, August 02, 2007 9:31 AM

SourceSafe 2005 Update CTP Available

Along with the VS2008 wave of products, we are providing an update to Visual SourceSafe 2005 called a GDR. GDR stands for something like General Distribution Release and it is very much like a service pack. The differences are subtle and I won't try to
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Wednesday, August 01, 2007 10:16 AM

Team System Web Access Overview

Someone asked me to publish a brief write up VSTS Web Access along with screen shots. It seemed like a good idea, so here you go... VSTS Web Access is a Web UI to a portion of the Team Foundation Server functionality. Over time I expect it to grow beyond
Posted by bharry | 14 Comments
Wednesday, August 01, 2007 9:34 AM

Improvements for testing in VSTS 2008

Compared to our VSTS 2005 release, the 2008 release is a fairly modest release. Mostly it's filling gaps in the offering and adding in a few nice new features. However, I think the improvements we've made in testing are are under appreciated. IMHO, we
Posted by bharry | 4 Comments
Wednesday, August 01, 2007 7:54 AM

TechEd South Africa

For that subset of you for whom it is relevant, It looks like I'm going to be at TechEd South Africa this year. It's October 21st to the 24th. I'm still finalizing plans but expect to be doing a couple of talks on TFS and VSTS. I've never been to the
Posted by bharry | 4 Comments
 
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