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Welcome Grant!
Grant Holliday , a former Team System MVP, recently joined our team focused on adoption of TFS internal to Microsoft.  Since he’s a veteran TFS user, he hit the ground running and now is a voracious force on the internal support aliases.  I’m Read More...
Posted 06 July 08 02:47 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 06 June 08 07:11 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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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, Read More...
Posted 06 June 08 06:44 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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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.  Read More...
Posted 02 June 08 07:13 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 13 May 08 02:59 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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How DevDiv uses TFS
Gregg Boer, a program manager on the TFS work item tracking team has started a series of posts outlining in good detail how we used TFS work item tracking within Developer Division to manage the Visual Studio 2008 project.  Based on the popularity Read More...
Posted 20 April 08 03:57 by jeffbe | 4 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 11 April 08 01:36 by jeffbe | 17 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 28 March 08 08:31 by jeffbe | 1 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 24 March 08 03:17 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 24 March 08 02:54 by jeffbe | 5 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 18 March 08 02:46 by jeffbe | 14 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 11 March 08 02:29 by jeffbe | 5 Comments   
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TFS install FAQ updated
Just read from Bryan Krieger that he's updated the forum post the Frequently Asked Questions related to installing TFS 2008. We've invested a lot of effort to ensure that the installation experience for TFS 2008 is vastly improved compared to TFS 2005. Read More...
Posted 09 March 08 04:48 by jeffbe | 0 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 08 March 08 02:40 by jeffbe | 4 Comments   
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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 Read More...
Posted 24 November 07 12:59 by jeffbe | 4 Comments   
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