Everything you want to know about Visual Studio ALM and Farming
A little over a month ago, I gave an update on our progress of moving the Windows team to Git in the largest Git repo on the planet. At the time, I described the scale of the Windows Git repo (over 3.5M files and ~4,000 engineers), the current performance results and set of improvements that… Read more
Back in February, I announced our plan to release a fairly full featured Wiki for Team Services and TFS. I also announced that we were purchasing the Wiki extension that was then in the marketplace. Since then, we’ve left the Wiki extension in the marketplace pretty much alone and worked to bring in the code… Read more
I like to write, from time to time about our experiences, successes, failures and learnings from delivering Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS), a large scale service, on a cloud delivery cadence. My most recent post reflected on how cool it is to be able to deliver customer fixes within a day or two. And I’ve… Read more
Today we shipped the second release candidate for TFS 2017.2. Release notes TFS 2017.2 web installer TFS 2017.2 ISO TFS 2017.2 Express edition web installer TFS 2017.2 Express edition ISO The main differences between RC1 and RC2 are: A bunch of bug fixes All the localized versions are now available At this point, we only… Read more
Spring is hay season and it puts a significant strain on my managing the balance between work and farm. For the past several weeks, I’ve been stealing away every spare minute I can to cut, rake, bale and haul hay. I’ve hayed about 75 acres and that yields one heck of a lot of hay. … Read more
I want to share an experience that highlights why I am so proud of the organization I work in. The experience is expressed in the form of an email thread that I had this week. Times/timezones are a little whacky because there were 3 – the customer’s, mine and the engineer’s. But the whole thread,… Read more
Yesterday, we released the first release candidate for TFS 2017 Update 2 (TFS 2017.2). This is a “go-live” release and is ready to be used in production environments. We’ve already installed it on 2 of our ~50 production TFS servers and it’s looking solid. TFS 2017.2 Release notes TFS 2017.2 RC1 web installer TFS 2017.2… Read more
Sheesh, it’s another huge update this sprint. I expected a bit of a lull after all the work we put out along with the Build conference but things don’t seem to be slowing down much (or at least they’ve picked back up with a vengeance). Check out the release notes for details. There’s so many… Read more
Today we published our next quarterly installment to our roadmap. Check it out! Brian… Read more
We first introduced basic build automation capabilities in TFS 2005 and, over the years, it has evolved substantially. In TFS 2010, we introduced a major update which we now call “XAML build” because the build orchestration layer was based on the XAML workflow engine. As that got adopted, we found that workflow was just not… Read more
