May 2009 - Posts

Large Team Foundation Server Performance Characteristics
Since joining Microsoft, I’ve become intimately familiar with running a TFS server for ~3,500 users in Developer Division and the performance characteristics of it. One thing I’ve learnt is that Performance Counters rule. You might observe the server Read More...
Posted 21 May 09 10:27 by grantholliday | 3 Comments   
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Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1 Download Links
The Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1 bits have been available to MSDN subscribers since Monday. Now the bits are available to everybody on microsoft.com/downloads. Visual Studio Team System 2010 Team Foundation Server Beta 1 (rar files, 2.3GB) – Read More...
Posted 20 May 09 11:23 by grantholliday | 3 Comments   
Visual Studio Team System 2010 Team Foundation Server Beta 1 Installation Problems
First of all, see my last post Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1 Download Links for all the download links and installation docs. Also check out Brian Keller’s post on Using a download manager to quickly download Visual Studio 2010 Beta 1 . We greatly Read More...
Posted 20 May 09 12:38 by grantholliday | 8 Comments   
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Replying inline in Outlook with [Name]:
Did you know that there’s a feature in Outlook that prefixes your name automatically when you reply inline like this? When you reply to somebody and start replying inline, it automatically changes the font to a new color and prefixes it with [GrantH] Read More...
Posted 05 May 09 05:27 by grantholliday | 1 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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