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TFS2010: Public Workspaces
Public Workspaces is a feature that we built last year mainly for our internal build lab customers. Before TFS2010, if one user tries to use a workspace that belongs to another user on the same machine, they will receive an error message: No workspace Read More...
Posted 08 November 09 03:35 by grantholliday | 1 Comments   
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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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TFS2010: Diagnosing Email and SOAP subscription failures
Sometimes emails alerts such as "Work Item Changed" will fail to send.  Sometimes SOAP (web service) subscriptions will not be called correctly. To diagnose these, you can look in the tbl_JobHistory table in the Tfs_Configuration database. Read More...
Posted 28 October 09 06:33 by grantholliday | 1 Comments   
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TFS2010: SQL Queries for TFS Statistics
Brian has been posting TFS statistics from the Developer Division dogfood TFS server for many years.  I’ve updated the queries from TFS2008 to work with Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 2. Here are the statistics for the TFS2010 Beta 2 server that Read More...
Posted 23 October 09 01:27 by grantholliday | 1 Comments   
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VSTS Pioneer TFS2010 Dogfood Server: Upgrading
( See this summary on the VSTS Pioneer dogfood server and all the other posts .) One of the major goals of the Pioneer Team Foundation Server is to upgrade it to early builds so that we can get some “bake time” with them and feel confident with what we’re Read More...
Posted 19 October 09 01:58 by grantholliday | 0 Comments   
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VSTS Pioneer TFS2010 Dogfood Server: Statistics September 2009
( See this summary on the VSTS Pioneer dogfood server and all the other posts .) September was a busy month for dogfooding TFS – all of the VSTS team were completely moved across and on 9/17 we upgraded to an almost final TFS2010 Beta 2 build. Here are Read More...
Posted 19 October 09 12:13 by grantholliday | 1 Comments   
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TFS2010: Installing pre-requisites from the command line
On the Team Foundation Server team, there is a new build of the server every night that comes out of our build lab. These vary in quality throughout the development cycle and the QA teams look at them and rate them as “Self Test”, “Self Test (with workarounds)”, Read More...
Posted 18 October 09 11:31 by grantholliday | 0 Comments   
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Scripting Team Project Creation in TFS2010
In TFS2008 SP1 and the subsequent power tools release it was possible to create a team project from the command line. You can read Will-Peter’s detailed blog post on Creating a Team Project from the command line in TFS2008 . In TFS2010, it’s still not Read More...
Posted 25 September 09 02:17 by grantholliday | 1 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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VSTS Pioneer TFS2010 Dogfood Server – Hardware & Topology
(This blog post is part of a series of posts on the new VSTS Pioneer TFS dogfood server .) While running the main TFS server for ~3,500 users in Developer Division we got a pretty good idea of the hardware required to support our enormous number of files, Read More...
Posted 27 August 09 11:23 by grantholliday | 3 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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TFS Adoption at Microsoft – May 2009
As promised last week in my Dogfooding TFS show on the RadioTFS podcast , here is the latest on TFS within Microsoft that myself and Brian have posted about in the past . May had the all-time peak in the total number of unique active users with 15,613. Read More...
Posted 23 June 09 06:26 by grantholliday | 4 Comments   
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RadioTFS Podcast on Dogfooding TFS
Last week I sat down (virtually) with two of our Team System MVP’s - Martin Woodward and Paul Hacker . We had a good chat about TFS at Microsoft which you can listen to on show #22 of the RadioTFS podcast . Play now: Radio TFS #22: Dogfooding TFS with Read More...
Posted 23 June 09 06:22 by grantholliday | 1 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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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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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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