http://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/atom.xmlCommunity Server2008-10-14T19:04:22Zhttp://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/archive/2009/07/14/new-overview-for-all-tfs-migration-integration-tools.aspx2009-07-14T18:15:48Z2009-07-14T18:15:48ZI assume most of our major enterprise customers are not all-Microsoft shops and/or are not running all-MS tools. Our goal is to make developers successful with the very best tools, not to lock them all to our tools. (Of course I want our tools to be the very best, :)&#160; but it’s important to meet customers where they are and give them flexibility.) Most large enterprise customers ask, “can I get some help migrating my existing tool X to TFS?” Another very common one is “I have another branch/department/…...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/archive/2009/07/14/new-overview-for-all-tfs-migration-integration-tools.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9833245" width="1" height="1">StephanieSaadhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/StephanieSaad.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/archive/2009/06/29/stephanie-saad-cuthbertson.aspx2009-06-29T22:49:09Z2009-06-29T22:49:09ZTechnorati Tags: Personal Normally I like to post about Visual Studio VSTS and TFS related information. Feel free to skip this one as it’s not about the product. I thought I’d just address questions from folks who were asking about the name change on the top of the blog to “Stephanie Cuthbertson”. I got married this year, in February. :) Quick FAQ for the top questions I’ve been asked: Yes, you can still use old email address – SSAAD@Microsoft.com . The alias is not changing. Yes, Saad is now the...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/archive/2009/06/29/stephanie-saad-cuthbertson.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9808870" width="1" height="1">StephanieSaadhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/StephanieSaad.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/archive/2009/06/17/tfs-web-access-how-far-does-it-scale.aspx2009-06-18T01:44:53Z2009-06-18T01:44:53ZTechnorati Tags: VSTS , TFS , VSTS2008 , TFS2008 This is one I’ve been meaning to post for awhile. If you’ve ever wanted specifics on how far TFS Web Access scales, Hakan Eskici published a great whitepaper detailing scale limits on 2008. Here’s a link to that whitepaper: http://download.microsoft.com/download/1/F/8/1F8FF5A6-C1EE-4702-ABFD-118B662C0CAE/Team%20System%20Web%20Access%202008%20Scalability%20Limits.pdf Hope it’s good reading! Steph...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/archive/2009/06/17/tfs-web-access-how-far-does-it-scale.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9770884" width="1" height="1">StephanieSaadhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/StephanieSaad.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/archive/2009/06/16/free-hosted-trials-team-foundation-server.aspx2009-06-16T19:03:19Z2009-06-16T19:03:19ZThis cool update came across my desk last week. We are now providing free hosted trials of Team Foundation Server through partnership with TeamDevCentral . This is a good low-cost way to test-drive TFS and evaluate the feature set yourself. The six-week TDC trial includes: multiple accounts so you can experiment with different roles and collaborate within a project. And up to 4 hours of guidance and/or support for the trial. Here’re some more links to get you started if you want to check it out:...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/archive/2009/06/16/free-hosted-trials-team-foundation-server.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9762576" width="1" height="1">StephanieSaadhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/StephanieSaad.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/archive/2009/06/16/compatibility-for-tfs-2010.aspx2009-06-16T18:53:19Z2009-06-16T18:53:19ZSeveral of you emailed that the link to TFS 2010 Beta 1compatibility information was incorrect. Thanks for the quick feedback. Here’s the correct link: TFS Beta 1 Compatibility . I’ve also corrected the online post. Thanks! Steph...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/archive/2009/06/16/compatibility-for-tfs-2010.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9762567" width="1" height="1">StephanieSaadhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/StephanieSaad.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/archive/2009/06/15/tfs-project-management-and-beta-1.aspx2009-06-15T23:01:20Z2009-06-15T23:01:20ZDev10 Beta 1 has shipped! We are really excited to have you trying our Beta and giving us feedback. The TFS team has pulled together some really nice content to help you get ready for TFS 2010 and also delve into Beta 1. I’ve been reading through all the posts this morning, and&#160; I wanted to aggregate the list for you as I thought it might be helpful reading. &#160; &#160; Area Posts Author Reporting TFS Relational Warehouse &amp; Cube Schema Changes for 2010 Sunder Raman &#160; &#160; &#160;...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/archive/2009/06/15/tfs-project-management-and-beta-1.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9755069" width="1" height="1">StephanieSaadhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/StephanieSaad.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/archive/2009/04/14/great-tfs-videos.aspx2009-04-14T17:33:36Z2009-04-14T17:33:36ZA customer asked me this morning for some demo videos to show TFS to his team. As I was pulling together these links, I thought it might be info you’d value. Here is a short list of a few sites where you can find great video demos of TFS. This includes our own revamped TFS site as well as some partner sites I really like. http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/teamsystem/bb507749.aspx#tfs http://teamsystemrocks.com/tutorials/ http://www.digeratitech.com/tfstraining.aspx &#160; Thanks! Steph...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/archive/2009/04/14/great-tfs-videos.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9548584" width="1" height="1">StephanieSaadhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/StephanieSaad.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/archive/2009/04/09/team-system-website-overhaul-what-do-you-think.aspx2009-04-09T19:15:09Z2009-04-09T19:15:09ZAs I bet many of you have noticed, we’ve been systematically overhauling the VSTS website. You’ve probably noticed slow but steady changes over the past several months. Alot of you gave feedback that we needed better content here, and we agree. Thanks for the great feedback. &#160; You can see the updated site here: Team System site . Sharon Elkins is driving the site improvements, with lots of feedback from all of us. Here’s a quick summary of some more great stuff she has on the docket: Social...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/archive/2009/04/09/team-system-website-overhaul-what-do-you-think.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9540590" width="1" height="1">StephanieSaadhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/StephanieSaad.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/archive/2009/04/06/tfs-redmond-product-team-to-be-at-the-down-town-seattle-user-group-april-8th.aspx2009-04-07T01:47:44Z2009-04-07T01:47:44ZIf you’re living in the greater Seattle area and are curious about any of the new TFS features planned for 2010, come find out! Chuck Sterling just reminded me that John, Ben and Matt will be doing an informal session of info and demos in downtown Seattle this Wednesday. Where: Seattle Down Town User Group @ Safeco Center 1191 Second Ave (2nd &amp; Seneca) 1st Floor, Alki Room Seattle, WA 98101 When: Wednesday, April 8, 2009 5:30 – 6:00 PM – Mixer, group kickoff and speaker introduction 6:00 – 7:30...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/archive/2009/04/06/tfs-redmond-product-team-to-be-at-the-down-town-seattle-user-group-april-8th.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9534636" width="1" height="1">StephanieSaadhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/StephanieSaad.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/archive/2009/03/18/great-article-from-jeff-levinson-on-why-to-upgrade-from-2005-to-2008.aspx2009-03-18T23:29:07Z2009-03-18T23:29:07ZOne of the questions I often get from customers is, what are the primary benefits of the upgrade from 2005 –&gt; 2008. I know we have published alot on this from the product team, but it is always good to get an outside perspective. This article from Jeff Levinson recently came across my desk – I thought it was a great outside perspective on the benefits. Here is the link: http://blog.nwcadence.com/2009/01/29/compelling-tfs-features-to-upgrade-from-2005-to-2008/ Happy reading! Steph...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/archive/2009/03/18/great-article-from-jeff-levinson-on-why-to-upgrade-from-2005-to-2008.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9487920" width="1" height="1">StephanieSaadhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/StephanieSaad.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/archive/2008/12/12/new-team-system-community-page-s-on-msdn.aspx2008-12-12T04:30:03Z2008-12-12T04:30:03ZI’m happy to report that Team System posted a new community page to our MSDN site today! We hear from our community that it’s been difficult to quickly find great community content. We have a fantastic and very active community. I hope this makes it easier. Team System Community on MSDN I’d be curious to hear what you think. Is this better? What else do you want to see? You can also give feedback directly to Sharon Elkins, who owns this page....(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/archive/2008/12/12/new-team-system-community-page-s-on-msdn.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9199454" width="1" height="1">StephanieSaadhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/StephanieSaad.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/archive/2008/12/10/how-msit-does-development.aspx2008-12-11T01:51:51Z2008-12-11T01:51:51ZMSIT is our internal IT department at Microsoft. I’ve had alot of interest generated from all the talks about their development process, and several people have asked me if we have any whitepapers with further details. &#160; I checked in with MSIT, and they have written quite a bit of contenton their experience with Visual Studio Team System. I liked this whitepaper here, titled “ Using Visual Studio 2008 to Improve Software Development: Deploying VSTS 2008 Team Foundation Server at Microsoft ....(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/archive/2008/12/10/how-msit-does-development.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9192955" width="1" height="1">StephanieSaadhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/StephanieSaad.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/archive/2008/11/16/how-we-use-tfs-at-microsoft-additional-decks-from-pdc-and-from-teched-emea.aspx2008-11-16T16:47:29Z2008-11-16T16:47:29ZI’m just catching up on a few things from the Heathrow Airport. It seems there was alot of demand for decks on this subject. I promised audiences to post copies of the decks for additional events this fall. Please hop right on your delete key and delete this if you don’t need yet another deck on this subject. =) For those of you who specifically requested the decks, I’ve posted information below. Because these audiences have different interests, the talks covered slightly different material. I’ve...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/archive/2008/11/16/how-we-use-tfs-at-microsoft-additional-decks-from-pdc-and-from-teched-emea.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9103230" width="1" height="1">StephanieSaadhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/StephanieSaad.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/archive/2008/11/10/agile-development-with-visual-studio-slides.aspx2008-11-10T21:04:12Z2008-11-10T21:04:12ZIf you’re curious to get an overview of Agile Development in Visual Studio, here are some slides that may help. I gave a talk this afternoon at TechEd EMEA that covered the full set of Agile features in VS scaling from Visual Studio Express all the way up to Visual Studio Team System. &#160; Here is a quick overview of the agile feature set in 2008 and in 2010 from the talk for your reference: Visual Studio 2008: C# / VB Refactoring Database Refactoring C# / VB Unit Testing Database Unit Testing...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/archive/2008/11/10/agile-development-with-visual-studio-slides.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=9058371" width="1" height="1">StephanieSaadhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/StephanieSaad.aspxhttp://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/archive/2008/10/14/how-microsoft-does-development-with-vsts.aspx2008-10-14T21:04:22Z2008-10-14T21:04:22ZThis morning I am in Las Vegas giving one of the keynotes for VSLive! The conference organizers thought it would be really cool to talk about how Microsoft does development with VSTS. I get a ton of questions about this and I also know I like to pick up decks and demos from some talks, so I posted both the deck and the demos from this morning. Diana Kumar, who actually manages a big chunk of our internal deployments, did all the live demos. Several were off our production servers - so, since we can't...(<a href="http://blogs.msdn.com/stephaniesaad/archive/2008/10/14/how-microsoft-does-development-with-vsts.aspx">read more</a>)<img src="http://blogs.msdn.com/aggbug.aspx?PostID=8999879" width="1" height="1">StephanieSaadhttp://blogs.msdn.com/members/StephanieSaad.aspx