Jeff Beehler's Blog
Please give us your thoughts on MSF
In many ways, the Microsoft Solutions Framework (MSF) is at the very center of Team System. It goes...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 10/11/2007
Soma writes about Team Developer features
Soma's writing a series of blog posts on VS2008 features in anticipation of our coming release. As...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 10/05/2007
September TFS Power Tools now available
The TFS team continues to do a great job releasing Power Tools on a regular basis to the community...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 10/05/2007
Operations Guidance for TFS
The Team System Rangers have done it again. Their mission is the accelerate adoption of Team System...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 10/02/2007
More Team System resources available
Clark Sell has done a really interesting job organizing the various Team System resources that he's...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 09/22/2007
Improved VPC download experience
If you're struggling to download the huge VPC images for Team System 2008 or the "Rosario" CTP, I...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 09/22/2007
Aggregating popular Team System blogs
Blogs have quickly become a primary means for the Team System team to communicate with our community...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 09/05/2007
Watch TFS - Project Server Connector Channel 9 video
Brian Keller recently interviewed Lenny Fenster, the lead VSTS Ranger on the TFS-Project Server...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 08/15/2007
Team Architect August Power Tool available
The Team Architect folks have just released an update to their Power Tools for Orcas Beta2. Check...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 08/15/2007
New spelling features added
David Kean recently posted an article announcing new spelling support for Code Analysis in Team...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 08/15/2007
Doug wants to know what you want
Doug Seven, our newest addition to the Team System marketing team, would like to hear from you...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 08/15/2007
Guide to Team Build 2008
Check out Buck's post written by Patrick Carnahan summarizing the key features available in Team...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 08/15/2007
Watch Channel 9 video on news from DataDude
Brian Keller just announced the availability of a new Channel 9 video featuring Gert Drapers (aka...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 08/15/2007
DataDude ships again!
As if releasing their service release as well as VS2008 Beta2 last month wasn't enough, our DataDude...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 08/11/2007
My foreword
For the recently published Team Development with TFS guide, I wrote the following foreword which...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 08/07/2007
final version of Team Development with TFS now available
We hear on a regular basis that customers want our advice and guidance on how best to use Team...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 08/07/2007
Initial feedback on Rosario starts flowing in
It hasn't taken our early adopters much time to start providing feedback on Rosario since our...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 08/05/2007
First Rosario CTP now available!
It’s with great pleasure that I announce the availability of the first Rosario CTP (officially known...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 08/03/2007
Moving to Team System 2008 Beta 2
Hopefully by now you've downloaded Visual Studio Team System 2008 Beta 2, read Brian's blog on...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 08/01/2007
Why choose Team System?
I recently received an email from one of our customers asking for a list of reasons to choose Team...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 08/01/2007
Upcoming Team System webcasts
Adam Gallant recently posted a listing of many Team System webcasts that are scheduled for the next...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 07/31/2007
Company uses Team System Database edition to tame workflow
An article on TheServerSide.NET recently highlighted Configuresoft's usage of Visual Studio Team...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 07/31/2007
Upcoming Project Server Connector webcast
Brian Keller just announced an upcoming webcast entirely focused on the recently released...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 07/31/2007
Hosted TFS available from Readify
Although Team Foundation Server 2005 was not explicitly designed to be hosted, the smart folks at...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 07/30/2007
Team System Web Access Power Tool released!
Brian's recently announced the availability of the the Team System Web Access Power Tool. We've been...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 07/30/2007
Upcoming Team System chat (August 1st)
Come chat with the Visual Studio Team System product team – This Wednesday Join members of the...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 07/30/2007
Watch our TechEd 2007 sessions
The Team System team and community delivered quite a few talks at TechEd 2007 last month and I'm...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 07/26/2007
Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 is available!
I'm sure there will be many more posts (from me and others) but I wanted to get the good word out...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 07/26/2007
New branding for Team System 2008
Check out Rob's blog announcing the new branding for Team System 2008. In it, he writes: Since we...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 07/26/2007
TFS adoption at Microsoft
Frequent readers of my blog know full well that we take TFS dogfooding very seriously here. In fact,...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 07/24/2007
Check out the new profiler features
Ian Huff has started a new blogging series on the new profiler features in Orcas. The profiler is...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 07/24/2007
DataDude Service Release 1 is now available
Service Release 1 (SR1) for Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Edition for Database Professionals is...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 07/24/2007
Database support survey - we need your input!
Brian Keller is taking a survey on which 3rd party database providers we should partner with for...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 07/24/2007
Finalized guidance published for WSS 3.0 support
As I announced earlier this year, we have provided guidance on how to configure TFS 2005 to work...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 07/24/2007
Team System enables CMMI Certification (case study available)
Brian Keller has just posted information about a new case study highlighting a company that achieved...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 07/09/2007
Team System testing videos available
Here's a great series of testing oriented videos for Team System hosted on the ASP.net site: #1 |...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 07/02/2007
Feedback on documenting scenarios in Team System
David Chesnut has posted an article asking for feedback on changing the orientation of the...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 06/29/2007
V1.0 of the Migration and Synchronization Toolkit has been released!
It’s been a long time coming, but the Toolkit has finally released on CodePlex! We've received a lot...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 06/29/2007
Getty Images improves productivity by adopting Team System
We recently published another great case study of Team System adoption, this time outlining the...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 06/24/2007
New Team System "How Do I?" videos available
One of the things we regularly hear from customers about is their desire to see more demos of Team...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 06/23/2007
Come chat with the Visual Studio Team System product group – July 3rd
Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 06/23/2007
Overview of Visual Studio Team Developer Tools
At TechEd this year, Noah and Abhijit gave one of the highest ranked talks of the week. I had the...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 06/23/2007
Project Server 2007 connector available
Integration between TFS and Project Server has long been a common request from many of our...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 06/11/2007
Customizing TFS
As I previously mentioned, I've been collecting data from current TFS users to understand what sorts...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 06/03/2007
Performance testing guide
JD and his p&p team are on fire. In the space of two days last week, they released both the...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 05/29/2007
Have you customized TFS?
I’m giving a talk at TechEd 2007 about customizing TFS. As part of that talk, I’d like to reference...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 05/24/2007
pre-release of Team Development with TFS now available
Yesterday we released our Beta 1 of Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 05/24/2007
Learning more about Team System
We recently received the following question from someone on our team: I have a customer who would...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 05/24/2007
Comparing performance reports
I can't believe I haven't seen this blog article before now...I just learned about it from the...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 05/23/2007