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Shining the Light on Rosario

Today is an important milestone in the march towards the Rosario release of Visual Studio Team System. Among the announcements is the official name of the release.  It will be called Visual Studio Team System 2010.  We also announced that it
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VSTS Demos

I have been thinking a lot lately about how to demonstrate the value of what we are doing in our Rosario release. There is so much and there are so many ways to talk about it. The first idea I stumbled across was what I call "Wow!" demos. The goal would
Posted by bharry | 2 Comments

Managing your TFS Server data

I recently got a recommendation from someone to check out "TFS Data Manager" from OnePulse. It was described as "Phenomenal". I've taken a few minutes to browse their web site and what I see looks very good. They are solving a bunch of problems customers
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Charting a course for TFS "Rosario"

It's been on my mind recently to talk about some of the assumptions and pre-requisites that are going to exist for the Rosario release of Team Foundation Server.  The main reason is to make sure people have plenty of time to prepare for it. 
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More 3rd party support for Team System

In all of the hectic activity of the last couple of months I missed a couple of important partner announcements. Two (at least, I may find more I've missed yet) partners have released support for Team System in the past couple of months. VersionOne -
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Belated announcement of an update to the eScrum process template

I apologize. I'm about a month late in getting out this announcement and promised I'd announce it as soon as it happened :( It just slipped through the cracks of a very busy summer (I was on vacation at the beach the week it released :)). The eScrum process
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Migration Toolkit and TFS to TFS updates

I've seen quite a lot of people having problems with and ultimately abandoning use of the Migration Toolkit and the TFS to TFS migration tool over the past year or so.  In my mind, there are two categories of reasons for this 1) People are expecting
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A new Team System users group (with a twist)

A couple of our MVPs have hatched an interesting idea. They are starting a "virtual" Team System users group. The advantage is that they can pull people from disparate locations (both members and presenters). The disadvantage, obviously, is that it's
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Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 Bug fixes

I promised I'd publish the list of Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1 bug fixes and here they are.  I've attempted a new twist this time and included information about how we found out about the bug.  I figured you might be interested in seeing
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September '08 DevDiv TFS Dogfood Statistics

Well, I let it happen again :(.  It's been over two months since my last report on this and my blog has gone sadly quiet in general.  As I'd mentioned before, it's been an unbelievably busy summer but I think I'm finally coming out of it. 
Posted by bharry | 16 Comments

Microsoft Joins the OMG (Object Management Group)

Last week we announced that Microsoft has joined the OMG. Over the past year or so, you've probably seen Microsoft talking more and more about modeling as a key technology for business processes and application development.  At Tech Ed this summer,

A new New York City VSTS user group

I've heard there's a new VSTS user group forming in New York City. If you are interested in checking it out, see if you can attend their first meeting on Sept 30th, 6:30 - 8:00 at the NYC Microsoft office. You can read more about it here: http://nyc-vsts-ug.com/
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Team System Web Access update released!

On Saturday, we released an updated version of Team System Web Access. You will find the download here: http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=3ECD00BA-972B-4120-A8D5-3D38311893DE&displaylang=en I wrote an extensive post about it
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