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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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Attachment(s): Deployment Plan Template.xlsx
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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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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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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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
TFS Adoption at Microsoft – November 2008
Every month our internal teams put together statistics on the TFS servers deployed at Microsoft. Previous statistics can be found here: September 2008 August 2008 August 2007 Developer Division Dogfood Statistics One of the noteworthy milestones this Read More...
Posted 11 December 08 05:38 by grantholliday | 2 Comments   
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Visual Studio 2010 CTP VPC will expire Jan 1 2009
If you are running the Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework 4.0 CTP under Virtual PC or Hyper-V, you should know that the copy of Visual Studio installed in the VPC is set to expire. After January 1, 2009, you will no longer be able to launch the Visual Read More...
Posted 10 December 08 01:42 by grantholliday | 8 Comments   
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Hosted Team Foundation Server
Since the Readify TFSNow! hosted TFS offering that I helped to build is no longer in operation, people have asked if there is anybody else doing it. There are three partners that I know of that offer to run and maintain Team Foundation Server in the cloud Read More...
Posted 02 December 08 06:56 by grantholliday | 4 Comments   
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Remotely connecting to a Hyper-V virtual machine with networking disabled
In a previous blog post, I explained the steps to convert the VS2010 CTP VPC from Virtual PC to Hyper-V . When using virtual machines, sometimes you don’t want them to be connected to any network. This is especially true with the Team Foundation Server Read More...
Posted 10 November 08 10:59 by grantholliday | 1 Comments   
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Downloading all PDC2008 session videos
If you missed out on PDC this year, you probably know that all the sessions were recorded and made available on MSDN’s Channel9. It’s not immediately obvious from the Channel9 site, but it is possible to get an RSS feed of all the videos that are available. Read More...
Posted 04 November 08 02:40 by grantholliday | 5 Comments   
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Attachment(s): PDC2008_Videos.txt
Query Work Items changed in recent hours
Yesterday I got another question on one of our internal mailing list and I remembered it as one that I’ve answered before on OzTFS.com . The answer comes from this MSDN forum post . By default, the TFS Work Item Query engine operates in “date precision” Read More...
Posted 01 October 08 01:45 by grantholliday | 1 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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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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Book Review of Team Foundation Server 2008 in Action
Earlier in the year I was contacted by Manning Publications to participate in the Manning Early Access Program (MEAP) . They provided me with an unedited draft of a new book " Team Foundation Server 2008 in Action " (ISBN 1933988592) by Jamil Azher and Read More...
Posted 30 August 08 09:16 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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