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Power Tools and Software Assurance

I love our Power Tool program. I really enjoy the opportunity to deliver stuff that people are wanting every few months. I also really like the very positive feedback we get on them. I'm always looking for the next "killer" Power Tool feature that we
Posted by bharry | 1 Comments

Another innovation in the evolution of Hotfixes

I've been keeping you all abreast of changes in our Hotfix plans.  More than a year ago, we introduced the notion of advertising hotfixes and enabling people to browse and download the hotfixes the find most useful.  Prior to that, the only

Expression and TFS

Warning - this is early information and is subject to change but the Expression team cleared me to say something about it. We get a lot of feedback from customers who would like more seamless integration between Expression and the rest of their development

TFS on Hyper-V

With the announcement of the release of the new Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization technology, I've seen a surge of questions about TFS support for Hyper-V. We have tested TFS running in a Hyper-V virtual machine. It works well and is officially supported.
Posted by bharry | 6 Comments

Automating the creation of Team Projects

Since I announced the ability to automate the creation of Team Projects in my TFS SP1 feature set post and my March Power Tools post, I've gotten several questions about the format of the XML file you need to create and pass to: tfpt createteamproject
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Attachment(s): ProjectCreationSettingsFileSchema.xsd

Rally connects to TFS for Agile project management

Today Rally is announcing that they have built a connector to enable its web based Agile project management tool to connect to TFS. This new connection enable source code checkins and TFS builds to be tied to the project management features in Rally,
Posted by bharry | 2 Comments

TFS support for Dynamics developers

Less than a month ago, Dynamics AX 2009 was released .  This new version enables Dynamics developers to store their source code and have an integrated experience for checkout, check in, get and history - the basic version control operations in TFS. 
Posted by bharry | 4 Comments

PDC 2008 & precons

Preparation is in full swing for the Microsoft PDC this fall (Oct 27 - 30).  PDCs are the primary event where we talk about the future (as opposed to events like TechEd where we primarily talk about the present).  This PDC promised to have a

TFS & Teamprise for enterprises doing serious cross platform development

We recently published a case study with Thomson Reuters on their experiences adoption TFS in a cross platform development team using Teamprise for their Java developers.  It's a great testament to how the combination of these two products can work
Posted by bharry | 2 Comments

Sharing Team System Process Templates

There are as many processes for software development as there are software teams.  Ever since we shipped TFS, I have hoped that a community would form for sharing process ideas and for sharing process templates.  Creating new process templates
Posted by bharry | 3 Comments

Translating Team System Web Access to your langauge

We have gotten some requests for translations of Team System Web Access into additional languages (beyond the 9 we already do). I am speculating that the additional interest here comes from the fact that TSWA targets a broader audience beyond the core
Posted by bharry | 4 Comments

Professional Developers Conference this fall

We'll be holding a PDC this fall in Los Angeles Oct 27 - 30. Registration opens today at: http://www.microsoftpdc.com/ . There are many developer oriented conferences that present an opportunity to learn about Microsoft technologies. The PDC is the most

1 week left for SP1 Beta feedback

We are nearing the end of the window for collecting Beta feedback on VS/VSTS/TFS 2008 SP1. We are actively taking and working on feedback through the end of the month. I haven't heard too much feedback yet. I know it's hard to get excited about testing

Hotfixes update

We've recently had a spike in hotfix publishing for TFS. At this point we have published all completed TFS 2008 hot fixes and are expecting a few more this week. We are still behind on publishing TFS 2005 hotfixes but at this point, I'm thinking it may
Posted by bharry | 4 Comments

2008 Beta Update

A few things that I've run across in the last few days...   1) If you have both TFS and Team Explorer installed on the same server, you may not upgrade just one of them to the SP1 Beta, you would need to upgrade both of them if you want to upgrade
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