September 2008 - Posts

Visual Studio Development and Database Edition are one
At the bottom of the Visual Studio 2010 press release was this nugget that you might’ve skimmed over: In another move to increase integration across the life cycle, Microsoft also announced that VSTS 2010 will provide a unified VSTS Development and Database Read More...
Posted 29 September 08 09:18 by grantholliday | 0 Comments   
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Microsoft Unveils Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0
The press release just went live over on MS press pass. Go and have a look at the enticing screenshots and read the Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) 2010 overview on MSDN . This is the release formally code-named “Rosario”. And best of all, Brian Keller Read More...
Posted 29 September 08 09:14 by grantholliday | 1 Comments   
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Relogging Perfmon binary log files to SQL
Lately I’ve been doing quite a bit of work with Performance Monitor (or PerfMon for short) to monitor some performance counters on a collection of servers. PerfMon has the ability to log it’s counter collections directly to a SQL ODBC data store. The Read More...
Posted 23 September 08 07:05 by grantholliday | 10 Comments   
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How many users are not using a TFS Proxy server?
When you do a "Get Latest" in TFS, there are three requests that the server processes: The initial Get() - the server calculates what files are out-of-date in your workspace A Download() for any files that are out-of-date in your workspace The Read More...
Posted 16 September 08 01:01 by grantholliday | 7 Comments   
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Does TFS guarantee event subscription delivery?
(Incidentally this was a question that I got in my interview loop) One of the components of Team Foundation Server is a Notification Service . The MSDN doc describes it like this: The Team Foundation Notification Service is a reliable, asynchronous publish-and-subscribe Read More...
Posted 15 September 08 06:19 by grantholliday | 1 Comments   
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Can I run TFS on a 64-bit OS?
This is a question that comes up quite often. The short answer is: No, not in TFS 2008. However, it’s a little more complex than that. The application tier will not install on a 64-bit operating system due to a block in the installer. And even if you Read More...
Posted 15 September 08 05:46 by grantholliday | 4 Comments   
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TFS Adoption at Microsoft
It’s been 12 months since Brian blogged about Team Foundation Server adoption across all of Microsoft (not just Developer Division Dogfood Statistics ). Since I’m now on the team responsible for internal adoption I’ll share some of the numbers that we Read More...
Posted 05 September 08 03:03 by grantholliday | 3 Comments   
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Grant Holliday

I'm a former Team System MVP who relocated from Australia to Redmond, Seattle.

I'm working on the team that supports and promotes TFS for Microsoft's internal customers.

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