John Lawrence (MSFT)
Managing development with Microsoft Visual Studio Team System & Team Foundation
Final version of TFS User Administration Tool now available
Joe Morel just contacted me to let me know that the final version of the Team Foundation User...
Date: 05/18/2006
Template project for subscribing to team foundation events & notifications
A couple of people have contacted me in the past wanting more details on how to subscribe to the...
Date: 05/07/2006
MindManager integration with Team Foundation Server for requirements gathering
A couple of weeks ago we had a Dev Lab on campus - during which time Michael Scherotter from MindJet...
Date: 04/18/2006
Jason - another Team Foundation Developer - is blogging
Looks like Jason Prickett is now blogging. I'm looking forward to reading what he has to say. He's...
Date: 03/23/2006
Too much email, not enough life
Via Itzy I came across this poem from Steve Palvina. Will you invest your time in what really...
Date: 03/22/2006
We did have green beer when Team Foundation shipped
A few people noted that Mary Jo Foley thought we'd be having green beer when we signed off on Team...
Date: 03/21/2006
What features would you like for a command line work item tracking tool?
One of my team is looking into what a command line tool for Work Item Tracking might look like. We'd...
Date: 03/06/2006
A fellow email blood pressure sufferer
I just read David Anderson's post on how he just decided to Take Back His Life after his email inbox...
Date: 03/04/2006
Team Foundation User Admin Tool now works against the TFS RC
Some time ago I blogged about a tool to manage users and groups across WSS, Reporting Services and...
Date: 03/03/2006
Team Foundation Dogfood Statistics - February
It's not long since I posted the last numbers, but Brian has just sent around the latest...
Date: 02/16/2006
Team Foundation Dogfood Stats - January
(Update - this didn't get sent to the main aggregate site when I first posted it) Brian sent around...
Date: 01/31/2006
Upgrading to Team Foundation RC: HTTP Header SOAPAction errors
Overnight last night we upgraded our dogfood server to the latest build of Team Foundation prior to...
Date: 01/31/2006
More about the impact of clicking Send Error Report
I blogged last week about how important it is to us for you to click "Send Error Report" when the...
Date: 12/09/2005
Clicking "Send Error Report" really helps us make Team Foundation better
I wanted to write a post to let folks know how useful it is to us when you choose to send us your...
Date: 12/03/2005
More on friendly display names in Work Item Tracking
Buck beat me to the punch in his blog post about our recent design change to support friendly names...
Date: 12/02/2005
Channel 9 video giving the inside scoop on dogfooding Team Foundation Server
Robert Scoble just put up a new video on Channel 9 that Eric Lee pulled together with Jeff Beehler,...
Date: 11/23/2005
Team Foundation Dogfood Stats - November
Brian's been gathering up his information again - so here are the latest updates in our dogfood...
Date: 11/20/2005
Would you like a tool to manage users across Team Foundation, Sharepoint and SQL?
We don't have one out of the box, but the Developer Division Aftermarket Solutions team is...
Date: 11/09/2005
900,000 files on the Team Foundation dogfood server!
Jeff Beehler was busy last night bringing a brand new Team System team's source code onto our...
Date: 11/08/2005
Team System Song Translated!
Earlier this week I posted a link to the hilarious Visual Studio Team System Song. To continue the...
Date: 10/30/2005
Reminder - Team Foundation Web Chat this morning (10/28) 9am PST
I just thought I'd send out a quick reminder that we're doing a Team Foundation chat this morning in...
Date: 10/28/2005
Slow Team Foundation Project Creation or operation? Check your NIC settings
We had a minor firestorm today as we saw major performance degredation trying to create new Team...
Date: 10/28/2005
Howard wants feedback on his Scrum Work Item Type definitions for Team Foundation
I mentioned yesterday that Howard van Rooijen is working on Team Foundation process templates for...
Date: 10/27/2005
Joel has an alpha version of his Team Foundation Process Template Editor
I just spotted this on Etienne's blog - Joel Semeniuk has announced that an alpha version of his...
Date: 10/26/2005
Howard van Rooijen is working on a Scrum methodology for Team Foundation
This looks really exciting. A lot of folks I know are working using Scrum methodologies (including...
Date: 10/25/2005
Brian has a great post about how many users Team Foundation can support
Brian just posted a really long post about some work we're doing to estimate how many users you can...
Date: 10/24/2005
Visual Studio Team System Song!
I just found this through one of my Feedster subscriptions - it's hilarious! Visual Studio Team...
Date: 10/24/2005
I'm on channel 9 talking about Team Foundation
A Channel 9 video that Robert Scoble and Sonal Pardeshi came and filmed in my office is now online...
Date: 10/20/2005
We'd like your thoughts on the Team Foundation Server setup experience
I can't believe that anyone reading my blog doesn't also read Rob Caron's but just in case, we've...
Date: 10/17/2005
Seismographic information via RSS
The recent earthquake tragedies must have been on my wife's mind heavily, because last night she...
Date: 10/12/2005
What does the Team Foundation Server Go-Live license mean for you?
A couple of posts today from Jeff Beehler and John Bristowe have pointed out that the Go Live...
Date: 10/09/2005
September Team Foundation Dogfood Statistics
I now have the latest dogfood data courtesy of Brian Harry. Now that Whidbey is pretty much...
Date: 10/08/2005
Excel Macro to automatically refresh Team Foundation query bound work item lists
One of my favorite features in Beta 3 of Team Foundation is the return of "query bound"...
Date: 09/29/2005
A couple of installation tips for Team Foundation Beta 3
I've been watching some of the internal discussion aliases over the last week as folks outside of...
Date: 09/23/2005
Team Foundation Beta 3 is now Live!
Rick has just announced that Beta 3 is available -...
Date: 09/23/2005
Team Foundation Dogfood Statistics for July/Aug
Brian Harry just sent out the latest statistics for how we're using Team Foundation for our own...
Date: 08/18/2005
Making a work item field read only after its initial value has been set
Here's a neat little trick that Alex on my team came up with today to solve a customer problem. We...
Date: 08/17/2005
Team Foundation Notification RSS feeds? Definitely!
I didn't realize this yesterday when I blogged about RSS checkin notifications yesterday, but Jeff...
Date: 08/09/2005
Team Foundation Notification RSS feeds? Maybe...
I hinted in my last post that there was a reason I was prompted to get Newsgator running again....
Date: 08/09/2005
Internet Explorer 7 and Team Foundation? Not 100% just yet
Firstly, an apology. It's been way too long since my last post. Two excuses I've been swamped trying...
Date: 08/09/2005
Experiences using Team Build to build WebService and Setup (.vdproj) projects
I've been in the UK this week visiting several of our partners who are already using Team System for...
Date: 06/10/2005
How to enable verbose tracing for Team Foundation Server
We've had a few situations recently where we've needed to ask customers to send us the verbose logs...
Date: 06/08/2005
Team Foundation dogfood statistics for May
Brian Harry just sent out the latest statistics for how we're using Team Foundation for our own...
Date: 06/02/2005
Where do Work Items go when they are closed?
Some of the workflow of the Work Items that come in the box in Team Foundation Server is second...
Date: 05/31/2005
1275 Balloons to celebrate 10 years at Microsoft for Wes
Wes Sandford, one of the Team Foundation QA Managers reached his 10 year Microsoft Anniversary this...
Date: 05/31/2005
Langleyben Leon's feedback on Work Item Field Names
Langleyben Leon has some gripes with Team System Work Item Field Names. Work item name can not...
Date: 05/25/2005