TFSServerManager PowerTool

Archi — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 00:57:34 GMT

BHarry, is working on a great tool called TFSServerManager that contains lots of capabilities mainly...

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todd brooks — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 02:09:39 GMT

I would *really* like to get my hands on this as soon as you release it. Looks to me like an invaluable tool for TFS statistics.

TFSServerManager Powertool - Yes please!

My VSTS Blog — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:23:53 GMT

The investment that organisations make in VSTS and TFS is often quite significant, not just the big dev

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Zack — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:31:06 GMT

Only 1 suggestion... impove the screenshots ;) I suggest using SnagIt 8.

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jledgard — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 03:36:58 GMT

It would be really cool if you integrated this into the "TFS Administration Tool" on codeplex. :-)

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Asher — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 09:08:01 GMT

Yes Please.....

Hurry up and release this thing! :)

Loïc — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 10:04:24 GMT

I really want to test that, I'm always intereseted to build stats and tune up things !

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Thys — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:24:53 GMT

Even at first glance, this looks like the no 1 tool for tfs admins.

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Luis Fraile — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 11:26:10 GMT

It looks great¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡¡ I would also like to put my hands on it :o)

Luis Fraile

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Michael Ruminer — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:10:49 GMT

Brian,

How I would love to see you drop this out to CodePlex under the PowerToys.

TFSServer Manager Tool

if ( ! blogClogged ) — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:18:31 GMT

Make sure you check out Brian Harry's blog on TFSServer Manager Tool (yes, the name has a redundancy)....

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bharry — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 15:40:48 GMT

I've thought about putting it out on CodePlex and I still haven't fully made up my mind yet. The first issue is that we may ultimately make this part of the product and we don't generally ship source for official parts of the product. The problem is that if I put it out there I can't collaborate on it if it is going to be part of the product. I'm still thinking this issue through.

OK, now for the somewhat embarassing part. You'd be stunned at how much code this is. I just counted it and it's almost 50,000 lines. The primary reason is that I wrote my own graph control and the custom timeline control.

We'll see. I'll keep thinking about it and I appreciate the feedback.

Brian

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Etienne Tremblay — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 16:38:11 GMT

Bring it on Brian. This is the kind of stuff that is missing for full adoption of TFS by side groups like Support and Management. This will give them great statistics of availability an should convince quite a few of the reliability of the product. Also don't fret your up and down (or dip to 95%) I know you guys dogfood a lot and change the server on yourself so your bound to have a few ups and downs. Looks great can't wait to see what you'll do with it.

Cheers,

ps I'm interested for the record ;-).

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mcdonaldn@hotmail.com — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 17:38:16 GMT

Great tool Brian! I'd say getting this released to the masses ASAP is a must. Codeplex, Power Tool, next TFS release; what ever is the quickest. As an administrator, we really need something like this tool to monitor our system as we continue to implement.

Mac

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Terry Young — Tue, 23 Jan 2007 18:13:08 GMT

The Statistics, Performance, and Health tabs look like they provide some very useful information with the advantage of being available through one UI.

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William Bartholomew — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 00:36:09 GMT

Brian,

This tool would be invaluable! Looking forward to seeing it released. Keep up the good work.

William

Canberra VSTS User Group Rocks the House

Andrew Coates ::: MSFT — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 02:00:40 GMT

It's 8am and I'm sitting in the inaugural meeting of the Canberra VSTS User Group . The turn-out is amazing.

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wma — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 04:05:22 GMT

Brian,

This tool looks amazing, keep up the great work. I can't wait for it to be ready for external consumption.

Wes

TFSServerManager PowerTool 計畫.

Refines.Info["Polo Lee"] — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 06:54:49 GMT

總部的 Brian Harry 目前手上正進行一個很酷的 Power Tool 計畫, 這個小工具主要是用來 Monitor Team Foundation Server 的資訊. 包含了 "效能"

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Lars Wilhelmsen — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 12:41:38 GMT

Hi,

Hope you'll release this tool really, really soon.

--larsw

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Paul Rulifson — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 16:10:29 GMT

Yes! This tool would be very helpful.

Paul

VSTS Links - 01/24/2007

Team System News — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 17:26:16 GMT

Rob Caron on A Security Overview of Team Edition for Database Pros. Clara Oscura on MSF: track, workstreams,...

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Peter Blomqvist — Wed, 24 Jan 2007 22:45:48 GMT

Looking forward to use this, please release it soon :)

/Peter

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Mathias Olausson — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 00:22:29 GMT

This tool would be really useful! I think that the dogfood stats are something most TFS admins would like to produce. Please release it as a another power-tool or with source on codeplex!

// Mathias

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Dave McKinstry — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 06:44:58 GMT

Test the waters? I'd say they're hot. I've had operations questions about this from numerous customers and they accept but aren't thrilled with the current story. I know the operations represents a smaller number of people touching TFS than, say, developers. But if the operations fail, the developers won't be very happy either.

TFS Server Manager

Jeff Beehler's Blog — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:30:06 GMT

Brian has recently posted about a tool that he introduced to me way before we released TFS. I found it

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bharry — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 17:56:33 GMT

OK, I just ordered a copy of SnagIt. Thanks for the recommendation. I'll try it out and see if it produces better screen shots.

Brian

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Richard Murillo — Thu, 25 Jan 2007 19:31:18 GMT

Request++

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Bryan Hinton — Fri, 26 Jan 2007 01:38:15 GMT

Ditto with what everyone else has said - can't wait to get our hands on it!!

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Ed Blankenship — Sat, 27 Jan 2007 02:34:15 GMT

Brian... Wow! This would be a really really really great tool for us. Please let us know when it will be available if you will be releasing it! I really like the CodePlex idea and you could have community members join you in creating an awesome admin tool for TFS. Although, I do understand taking the time to think about it especially if you are pondering including it with the product.

Of course, I would say release it sooner than later! :)

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Amadeu Campanelli — Mon, 29 Jan 2007 18:25:22 GMT

I think it would be a valuable tool to show how the companies are using their TFS and the servers are behaving under the load.

Please release it!

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Paul Hacker — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 04:35:19 GMT

Brian, A great tool. I am with a client that is currently asking questions that could be answered very quickly with this tool. Would like to start using it.

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Steven St Jean — Tue, 30 Jan 2007 22:42:24 GMT

Fantastic tool Brian. I'd love to be able to use it to give management some insight into how critical TFS is to an IS organization. Keep up the good work!

- Steve

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Vaughn Hughes — Wed, 31 Jan 2007 22:49:32 GMT

Brian, this is magnificent--an absolute must-have TFS Power Tool! So much of trying to manage our large instance of TFS (approaching 100 projects with users around the globe) has been a black box with all the attendant guess work, occasional glimpses of what might be going on, no easy way to see performance for end users, etc. Please, please find a way to share it sooner rather than later--even if only alpha quality. Thanks!

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hinshelm — Thu, 08 Feb 2007 18:27:55 GMT

fantastic Brian

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Randy — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 21:40:14 GMT

Brain, I have not seen any recent postings on this. Is there any news about availability? How about a beta? We have just purchased TFS. Will TFSServerManager be something I can look forward to using? Thanks.

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bharry — Tue, 06 Mar 2007 23:37:34 GMT

Thanks for the ping. I'm working on it but between business travel, some vacation, the dogfood server rollout and just keeping up on email I've been swamped. I will keep you posted.

Brian

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Patrick Altman — Thu, 22 Mar 2007 22:55:20 GMT

I would love to get my hands on this and/or maybe help contribute. What about putting this out on CodePlex?

Thanks,

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bharry — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 16:58:46 GMT

It's an option I'm considering. Unfortunately I've been so swamped the last month I haven't made much progress. I'm hoping I'm going to find time to get out an early drop to a few more people in the next 2 weeks.

Brian

Update on Team Foundation Server Roadmap

bharry's WebLog — Thu, 05 Apr 2007 15:22:39 GMT

It's been about 4 months now since I published the first Team Foundation Server roadmap. A lot has happened

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Mike Aaron — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 06:50:09 GMT

Looks great and I can't wait to get my hands on it.

So, and I know that you've heard this a couple of times, when do we got to see a MOM (or SCOM) management pack for TFS?

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bharry — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 13:48:44 GMT

A MOM pack is on our list of things to do. We've actually built one and are testing it in our dogfood environment. I can't say when or in what form it will be released but it's something we are working on.

Brian

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Scott Lezberg — Tue, 30 Oct 2007 01:57:15 GMT

Any update on when this tool will be released? It looks fantastic and would be extremely helpful to us even in an unsupportd capacity.

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bharry — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 15:58:28 GMT

Sadly I just haven't had time to wrap it up. I've gotten quite a few requests for it in the last few weeks so I started dusting it off this week. I hope to get it wrapped up soon and made available.

Brian

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Andrey — Fri, 23 Nov 2007 14:48:10 GMT

Brian, all sysadmins of the world are waiting this release. Could you please do it? Thanks.

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bharry — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 21:12:02 GMT

I'm working on it today. Hopefully I'll make some good progress. I'm very sorry it's taken so long.

Brian

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Andrey — Sat, 22 Mar 2008 18:53:08 GMT

Brain, is there any news?

TFS 2008 already released, but we don't have the monitoring tools.

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bharry — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 06:35:56 GMT

The TFSServerManager tool is coming out with the next Power Tools release. I'm hoping it will be available tomorrow. Keep an eye on my blog for an announcement.

Brian

March '08 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

bharry's WebLog — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 21:11:24 GMT

We've just released a new version of the TFS Power Tools.  This new Power Tool release will work

[TFS] TFS PowerTools de Marzo disponible para descarga

El Bruno — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:37:14 GMT

Buenas, cómo bien nos comentaban la semana pasada en el MVP Summit en Seattle, ya está disponible para

[TFS] TFS PowerTools de Marzo disponible para descarga

El Bruno — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:37:51 GMT

Buenas, cómo bien nos comentaban la semana pasada en el MVP Summit en Seattle, ya está disponible para

[TFS] TFS PowerTools de Marzo disponible para descarga

El Bruno — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 23:40:00 GMT

Buenas, cómo bien nos comentaban la semana pasada en el MVP Summit en Seattle, ya está disponible para

Rilasciati i nuovi Power Tool per TFS... e questa volta sono VERAMENTE uno spettacolo!!!

Normal people bore me! — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 09:30:23 GMT

Rilasciati i nuovi Power Tool per TFS... e questa volta sono VERAMENTE uno spettacolo!!!

Nová edice TFS Power Tools se zajímavými novinkami

BonzBlog Michaela Juřka — Tue, 22 Apr 2008 22:27:46 GMT

Brian Harry na svém blogu uveřejnil informace o nové edici Power Tools pro TFS, která je ke stažení zde

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Andrey — Thu, 08 May 2008 16:12:35 GMT

Brian, when can we expect TFSServerMonitor component ?

Thanks.

2008 年 3 月版 Team Foundation Server Power Tools がリリースされました

bharry's WebLog — Fri, 27 Jun 2008 09:17:37 GMT

つい先ほど、新しいバージョンの TFS Power Tools がリリースされました。この Power Tools の新リリースは、VS/チームエクスプローラ 2008 クライアント (および TFS

[TFS] TFS PowerTools de Marzo disponible para descarga

El Bruno — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 10:01:07 GMT

Buenas, cómo bien nos comentaban la semana pasada en el MVP Summit en Seattle, ya está disponible para...

How Microsoft uses Team Foundation Server internally

Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) Blog - by Neno Loje — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 20:59:58 GMT

A good read: Applying Value Up at Microsoft by Sam Guckenheimer (also available as 60-minute-webcast

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Ken Sponaugle — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 15:58:24 GMT

Hi Brian ... we're still working off of TFS 2005 SP1 ... can we use TFS Manager against that as well, or is this only for 2008?

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bharry — Thu, 13 Nov 2008 17:23:36 GMT

Yes, it will work for a TFS 2005 server as well.

Brian

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Brthomas — Tue, 17 Feb 2009 18:20:20 GMT

I really like this tool however I do not have a performance Tab and when ever I select the health tab it always errors with "Error reading event log from the app tier" The details of which is that "Then network path was not found"

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bharry — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 00:29:34 GMT

Yeah, the performance tab was disabled in the Power Tool version because it requires a server side component that we haven't been ready to release. I'd really like to but I don't know when we can.

I don't know why you are getting the event log error. It just opens the event log on the AT. Have you tried running it on the app tier? Does that work? it could be that remote access to your event log is disabled.

Brian

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[TFS2008] TFSServerManager, ese gran desconocido que nos ayuda a entender mejor a nuestro TFS

El Bruno — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:56:29 GMT

Buenas, hace ya bastante tiempo que Brian Harry mr. TFS comentó en un post como dentro de Microsoft,

[TFS2008] TFSServerManager, ese gran desconocido que nos ayuda a entender mejor a nuestro TFS

El Bruno — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:56:37 GMT

Buenas, hace ya bastante tiempo que Brian Harry mr. TFS comentó en un post como dentro de Microsoft,

[TFS2008] TFSServerManager, ese gran desconocido que nos ayuda a entender mejor a nuestro TFS

El Bruno — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:59:43 GMT

Buenas, hace ya bastante tiempo que Brian Harry mr. TFS comentó en un post como dentro de Microsoft

Large Team Foundation Server Performance Characteristics

granth's blog — Thu, 21 May 2009 20:35:12 GMT

Since joining Microsoft, I’ve become intimately familiar with running a TFS server for ~3,500 users in

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matt — Fri, 25 Sep 2009 19:03:20 GMT

i keep getting this error when attempting to run tfsservermanager.exe...

Could not load file or assembly "Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerTools.ServerManager.Controls. The system cannot find the file specified. the DLL, Microsoft.TeamFoundation.PowerTools.ServerManager.Controls.dll, is there in the same directory as, tfsservermanager.exe

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bharry — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 17:49:20 GMT

I'm not sure what to tell you other than to guess that maybe it's a different version? If it's in the same folder, it should find it. You may have to enable Fusion binding logging to see where it's looking for it and why it's not finding it.

http://blogs.msdn.com/suzcook/archive/2003/05/29/57120.aspx

Brian