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Sunday, July 06, 2008 3:39 PM

Case studies galore!

Sometimes I get so heads down in the business of shipping our next version that I forget for a moment about customers using the current version.  Fortunately, there are plenty of folks around me who work directly with customers on a regular basis
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Saturday, July 05, 2008 2:57 PM

Tools for Agility - A white paper by Kent Beck

Ajoy Krishnamoorthy , a product manager on our team, recently worked with Kent Beck to publish a great white paper on tooling for the agile team. The section on transparency really resonated with me especially this passage: A transparent team can more
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Friday, June 06, 2008 7:11 PM

New case study for Team Foundation & Teamprise

We just released a joint case study based on the success that Thomson Reuters has had using Team Foundation Server in conjunction with Teamprise in order to adopt Team System in a mixed development shop.  Since the reality of many development teams
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Friday, June 06, 2008 6:44 PM

Check out good stuff from TechEd 2008

This was a good week for Team System at TechEd 2008 in Orlando.  I would recommend that you check out the TechEd 2008 Online site ( http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/events/teched/default.aspx ) to learn about much of what was covered.  In particular,
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Monday, June 02, 2008 7:13 PM

Check out Brian the Build Bunny

Martin Woodward , one of our many Team System MVPs, just recently posted a blog article about a project he’s been working on for some time now.  Brian is actually a dedicated Nabaztag smart rabbit which reacts to the details of check-ins and builds. 
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Tuesday, May 13, 2008 2:59 PM

Team System 2008 Licensing White Paper now available

Kevin Kelly, a Team System Product Manager, announced today that at long last the Team System 2008 licensing white paper has been published.  I’ve lost track of the number of people who have asked about this important update so I’m sure there are
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Friday, April 11, 2008 1:36 PM

April Rosario CTP now available!

I'm happy to announce that the next Community Technology Preview of Rosario (officially known as Microsoft® Visual Studio® Team System code name “Rosario” April 2008 CTP) is now available. Customers can immediately begin downloading the VPC images from
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Friday, March 28, 2008 8:31 PM

Update on DevDiv dogfooding of TFS

Matt Gertz, Developer Division's manager responsible for our internal development tactics and process, recently posted an article covering the broad post-VS2008 efforts to more broadly adopt TFS within DevDiv for future product development. As regular
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008 12:36 PM

More Team System "Rosario" specs available for review

In November of last year, we started sharing a selection of the specs written for Team System "Rosario" features. At the time, we had just two specs available but the response from the community was very encouraging. As I predicted at the time, this sort
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Monday, March 24, 2008 3:17 PM

Join me at our next Team System Chat

Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Team Foundation Server, Team Suite, Architecture Edition, Development Edition, Database Edition, and Test Edition. In addition, discuss what's new for these editions
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Monday, March 24, 2008 2:54 PM

Internal usage stats for Team Foundation Server

Joe Schwetz, the group manager of our TFS Solution Provider team, publishes a monthly report which updates us on the internal adoption of Team Foundation Server across the company. You've heard from me before about our internal dogfooding of TFS within
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Tuesday, March 18, 2008 2:46 PM

Licensing Team System editions for your build machine

David Yack , one of our MS Regional Directors and a .NET MVP, tells me there is considerable confusion around the licensing requirements for the software installed on Team System build machines. The best resource available for these sorts of questions
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 2:29 PM

Project Server 2007 connector refreshed

I'm happy to announce that the Team System Rangers have just refreshed the Project Server 2007 to TFS connector that was originally released last year. This version has been made compatible with the recent release of TFS 2008. In addition, we've fixed
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Saturday, March 08, 2008 2:40 PM

TFS adoption survey results

Carl Rogers recently posted the results of an adoption survey he ran during TechEd EMEA last fall to understand adoption levels of TFS as well as how 'process' is viewed by teams. Some interesting things popped for me as I read through the results: Top
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Saturday, November 24, 2007 12:59 PM

Standalone Team Explorer 2008 download available

For folks that need to install Team Explorer 2008, there's a separate download available here: Download Visual Studio Team Explorer 2008 Having the Team Explorer doesn't alleviate the need to also have a TFS Client Access License (CAL) except when using
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