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A change in our ETM Architecture Plans
22 May 08 01:58 PM
As you guys already know we are working on a set of architectural investments that will allow us to scale out the TFS deployment. These scale out capabilities allows administrators to easily manage the load put by their teams on Team Foundation Server Read More...
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Team Foundation Server Properties Spec
09 May 08 03:48 PM
Yesterday we released our first specification discussing Team Foundation Serve properties and our thoughts on the feature. If you get a chance please go through it and provide us with feedback as it is always important for us to validate our assumptions Read More...
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Version Control Areas of Innovation
08 May 08 05:19 PM
If you look at Version Control over the 1990’s you are not going to find a lot of innovative and revolutionary features. I believe that there were certain industry factors that were responsible for this "dormant" period, but we won’t Read More...
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What does TFS merge uses: local or latest?
06 May 08 08:35 PM
Recently our team got this question asked through the forums, and since I remember when we were making this decision, I thought it would be best to put it in paper and do a quick blog. First let’s talk about the scenario: I have a workspace and Read More...
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Interesting HBR IdeaCast article
01 May 08 04:20 PM
Today I came across this article and I thought to share with you because I think it holds a lot of true for software development teams. I think the notion of always providing value because we are smart or have this certain level of expertise at times Read More...
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External Team Foundation Server Tools
28 April 08 03:47 PM
The other day I was in a customer call and I was asked for a list of TFS External tools, I am defining those as any TFS feature or tool that is not included in the packaged product.  Although I still don't have a compiled list the best advice I could Read More...
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Enterprise Team Foundation Server Management Spec
23 April 08 09:44 PM
As you know we are constantly looking at ways to improve our product in order to meet the growing market demands of our customers. Our enterprise customers today are looking to consolidate and usually decide to purchase one server for their teams and Read More...
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Feature Design and Simplicity- Part 3
21 April 08 10:46 PM
I have gotten some emails by readers about this series so I thought to continue the momentum and talk about the next law: Time . It is no secret that "Thin is in" with customers and that there is nothing more frustrating and at times upsetting Read More...
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Slick Design
15 April 08 01:55 PM
We Program Managers are always looking for the latest technology, trends and designs that will be enable us to deliver our vision of the feature to our users in its simplest and most powerful form. I was doing some research on tilt UI and physics UI and Read More...
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Team Foundation Sidekicks 2.1 Release
14 April 08 01:20 PM
Hi, Attrice has released a new version on their Sidekicks which you can now get here: ( http://www.attrice.info/downloads ). In addition to bug fixes, there are two big features of note (more details at http://blogs.microsoft.co.il/blogs/tfsidekicks/archive/2008/04/08/get-team-foundation-sidekicks-2-1.aspx Read More...
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Feature Design and Simplicity- Part 2
29 March 08 01:27 AM
Yesterday we discussed the first simplicity law: Reduce and went over one example of its use within our feature development. Today let us talk about the second law: Organize . Organization is a word that I personally dread since I cannot seem to keep Read More...
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How TFS proxy Server 2008 works
28 March 08 01:38 AM
One of our testers, Amos, posted his first blog post today and it goes a bit deeper into the TFS proxy than our msdn documentation so I thought that it might beneficial to cross reference since our Proxy is so popular in the marketplace. Here is the link: Read More...
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Feature Design and Simplicity- Part 1
27 March 08 07:35 PM
As a Program Manager an integral part of our job is designing a great user experience for our customers. One of the most important factors in the design is simplifying the experience so it is ease to use and easy to implement. As you know, simplicity Read More...
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Making quality screencast videos
25 February 08 05:48 PM
As a Program Manager at Microsoft you are frequently needing to demo your product or feature to various teams and customers. Since there are a lot of people that are always interested, in order to scale the effort, we end up producing videos that we can Read More...
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TFS Resolve Improvements Spec published
01 February 08 12:56 PM
Recently, I have been talking about the improvements we are thinking of making to the resolve experience in our next release. Well, today I am happy to announce that you get to see and provide feedback to us on the complete specification. You can get Read More...
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