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VSTS Pioneer TFS2010 Dogfood Server: Statistics October 2009
( See this summary on the VSTS Pioneer dogfood server and all the other posts .) As with the last few months, October was another busy month for dogfooding TFS. Since the Pioneer server has been such a success for Work Item Tracking and Source Control, Read More...
Posted 06 November 09 01:21 by grantholliday | 0 Comments   
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VSTS Pioneer TFS2010 Dogfood Server: Statistics August 2009
(This blog post is part of a series of posts on the new VSTS Pioneer TFS dogfood server .) Everybody loves statistics, so here are the statistics for the first month on the VSTS Pioneer server. Recent Users: 415 Work Item Tracking Users with Assigned Read More...
Posted 27 August 09 02:44 by grantholliday | 0 Comments   
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TFS Performance Report Pack now works with SSRS2005
Back in February, I released some of the reports that were created for our internal TFS servers on my blog as the TFS Performance Report Pack . I got countless emails and comments on the fact that some of them didn’t work with SQL Reporting Services 2005. Read More...
Posted 23 June 09 08:40 by grantholliday | 2 Comments   
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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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Announcing TFS Performance Report Pack
Update 6/23/2009 : Due to popular demand, Jim from the Developer Support team at Microsoft has re-created the three reports that required SQL2008 Reporting Services. See the support team blog for more details . I’m on the team that runs the busiest Team Read More...
Posted 03 February 09 04:00 by grantholliday | 30 Comments   
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Attachment(s): TFS Performance Report Pack.zip
Analyzing TFS performance with TfsActivityLogging and custom User Agents
Within Developer Division at Microsoft, we run a very busy server . We’re up to almost ~3,600 active users. Just over 6 months ago, the custom tools that our build labs were using were putting an extraordinary strain on the server. More than 40% of the Read More...
Posted 23 January 09 11:13 by grantholliday | 2 Comments   
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TFS Management Pack for System Center Operations Manager 2007 shipped
The VSTS Rangers have shipped the TFS 2008 Management Pack for SCOM2007 . It is also published in the official System Center Operations Manager 2007 Catalog on TechNet (choose “System Center Operations Manager 2007” from the dropdown list and enter “TFS” Read More...
Posted 26 November 08 06:01 by grantholliday | 2 Comments   
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Querying Perfmon data from SQL
In a previous post I talked about Relogging Perfmon binary log files to SQL . The next obvious step is to query the data from the database. There are two ways to do this: Use Perfmon itself to connect to the SQL data source Use another tool to query the Read More...
Posted 07 November 08 04:41 by grantholliday | 9 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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