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Monday, October 06, 2008 10:35 AM

Twitter Poll Results – How Testers Define Their Jobs

It’s a bit late, but I’m finally posting the results of my recent Twitter poll .  This was definitely an experiment.  I only received 4 responses for this poll, but it’s a start.  For future polls, I’ll allow blog comments as well. The
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Thursday, October 02, 2008 11:13 AM

Preview of next TFS Power Tools Release

Chances are you’ve already heard about this, but if you don’t read Brian Harry’s blog regularly, this is one post you don’t want to miss .  Brian has posted some screenshots and details about our upcoming TFS Power Tools release.  This isn’t
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Monday, September 22, 2008 11:58 AM

Twitter poll for testers: How do you define your job?

I'm curious to know what testers think their job descriptions are. Please send me your replies via Twitter to @jasonbarile. In the spirit of brevity, this keeps your answers to <= 140 characters :) I'll take descriptions until this noon EDT (GMT -05:00)
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Monday, September 22, 2008 9:34 AM

BuildTweeter - TFS Build Publisher for Twitter

If you’re looking for even more ways to get pinged by your build server, check out release v0.1 of BuildTweeter on CodePlex.  It’s a handy little Windows service that monitors build events and build quality change events and will post them to the
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Thursday, September 11, 2008 2:52 PM

Photosynth of our building in Raleigh/Durham, NC

I thought it'd be fun to share a Photosynth of our building in Durham, NC . Note we don't have a Microsoft sign on the front, so if you're coming for a visit, just look for this building and stop by front desk in the lobby :). If you haven't tried Photosynth.net
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Monday, September 08, 2008 4:55 PM

What I Look for in Test Plans

I've been reviewing a lot of test plans recently.  As I review them, I've compiled this list of things I look for in a well written test plan document.  Here's a brain dump of things I check for, in no particular order, of course, and it is
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Tuesday, September 02, 2008 10:41 AM

Dot Net Rocks episode 373 is all about TFS 2008

I should probably listen to the whole episode before blogging this :)  DNR Episode 373 was just posted, and it features Brian Randell and Martin Woodward talking about all the goodness in TFS 2008.  Now stop reading my blog and go listen!
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Thursday, August 28, 2008 9:21 AM

Why "Get Latest" sometimes doesn't...

I've seen quite a bit of angst from new TFS users over the "Get Latest Version" behavior in Team Foundation Server source code control, so I think it's worth a bit of discussion. The most common issue people report is that issuing the "Get
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Monday, August 11, 2008 9:38 PM

TFS Installation and Administration guides updated for VS 2008 SP1

With today's release of VS 2008 SP1 (including Team Foundation Server 2008 SP1), we've updated the Installation and Administration guides for TFS. If you are planning to deploy TFS SP1, please download and review these versions of the guides before proceeding.
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Monday, May 12, 2008 3:28 PM

Visual Studio 2008 SP1 Beta is live!

The Beta release of Visual Studio 2008 SP1 is live and available for download!  For users of Team Foundation Server, there are 2 downloads: Visual Studio 2008 Service Pack 1 (Beta) Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server Service Pack 1 (Beta) The
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Friday, April 25, 2008 9:42 PM

For review: New docs for moving a TFS server from one hardware configuration to another

The VSTS User Education team has posted a draft of updated documentation for the topic "Moving Team Foundation Server From One Configuration To Another" for public review. An undocumented change to the RenameDT command essentially invalidated the docs
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 2:03 PM

Help make the MSDN forums experience better

Big thanks to Steve Andrews for turning me on to this project...  If you've tried using the MSDN forums and have been frustrated by the experience (maybe with logging in and out for example?), this project on CodePlex might be of interest to you. 
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Monday, April 21, 2008 3:25 PM

March 2008 Team Foundation Server Power Tools Released

Brian Harry has blogged all the details , so I won't repeat them all here.  In particular, I know several of you have been pinging us for tool to configure 64-bit Sharepoint for TFS 2008, so, you'll be happy to know that this has been included as
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 8:13 PM

Can your version control system hold 236 million files?

Brian Harry has blogged our current TFS dogfood server statistics (our internal deployment of Team Foundation Server). Some of the numbers continue to amaze me. For example, we currently have over 236 million files stored on the server! In the last 7
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 10:06 AM

Ekobit TeamCompanion

Another player in the TFS-to-Outlook space is Ekobit's TeamCompanion .  Specifically, TeamCompanion integrates TFS workitems into Outlook, giving you the ability to work offline with workitems, integrate with desktop search, create new workitems
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