Jeff Beehler's Blog
How DevDiv uses TFS
Gregg Boer, a program manager on the TFS work item tracking team has started a series of posts...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 04/20/2008
Migrating hotfixes to MSDN Code Gallery
As we continue to improve the availability of our Visual Studio and .NET hotfixes, we have recently...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 04/14/2008
April Rosario CTP now available!
I'm happy to announce that the next Community Technology Preview of Rosario (officially known as...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 04/11/2008
Update on DevDiv dogfooding of TFS
Matt Gertz, Developer Division's manager responsible for our internal development tactics and...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/28/2008
New Team System Blogger: Stephanie Saad
I have been working with Stephanie for several years now and so I was super excited tickled to see...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/27/2008
Team Development with Visual Studio Team Foundation Server - now in Russian
Folks in our Ukrainian subsidiary recently completed the translation effort for the wildly popular...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/27/2008
Requirements Management with Team System whitepaper published
Lori Lamkin, the Product Unit Manager for TFS work item tracking and project management, has...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/26/2008
More Team System "Rosario" specs available for review
In November of last year, we started sharing a selection of the specs written for Team System...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/26/2008
84,248 Ads per second!
I think that the Load Testing capabilities within Team System Test Edition and the Load Test Agent...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/24/2008
Join me at our next Team System Chat
Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Team...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/24/2008
Internal usage stats for Team Foundation Server
Joe Schwetz, the group manager of our TFS Solution Provider team, publishes a monthly report which...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/24/2008
Channel 9 video: Project management with TFS
Brian Keller stopped by my office recently and we chatted for a while about how we manage our...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/20/2008
Easing access to hotfixes
In our continued efforts to improve the availability of hotfixes for Visual Studio and the .NET...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/20/2008
Teamprise 3.0 ships!
Congratulations to our friends at Teamprise, including the inimitable Martin Woodward, for their...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/19/2008
Licensing Team System editions for your build machine
David Yack, one of our MS Regional Directors and a .NET MVP, tells me there is considerable...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/18/2008
New TFS hosting service available
I just heard from Adam Galant that TeamDevCentral, a new TFS hosting service (the first in North...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/11/2008
Project Server 2007 connector refreshed
I'm happy to announce that the Team System Rangers have just refreshed the Project Server 2007 to...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/11/2008
TFS install FAQ updated
Just read from Bryan Krieger that he's updated the forum post the Frequently Asked Questions related...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/09/2008
TFS adoption survey results
Carl Rogers recently posted the results of an adoption survey he ran during TechEd EMEA last fall to...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/08/2008
Interview with Mark Osborne on how we build Visual Studio
Here's an in depth look at how we built Visual Studio 2008 as told by one of our principal...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/08/2008
Check out Behind the Scenes
As part of the Defy All Challenges marketing campaign for Visual Studio, a score of us on the team...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/08/2008
Please provide feedback on Architecture edition
We're currently conducting a survey on the usage patterns for Visual Studio Team System Architecture...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 02/11/2008
Visual Studio 2008 Product Comparison
Rob Caron just finished working on a very comprehensive product comparison for Visual Studio 2008....
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 01/30/2008
Welcome Chuck!
Just under two weeks ago, Charles Sterling (aka Chuck) joined our team to lead our Team System...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 01/27/2008
Load testing Windows Communication Foundation applications
The VSTS Rangers have done it again! They've identified a gap in our current product offering that...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 01/27/2008
Value of Community Tech Previews
We've been issuing Community Tech Previews (CTPs) for some time now including the most recent for...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 01/18/2008
Visual Studio Team System 2008 VPC images available
For those of you that want to try out Visual Studio Team System 2008 including Team Foundation...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 01/04/2008
Team System guidance now in print
The remarkably popular patterns & practices guides on Team System are now available in print via...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 12/03/2007
Sharing Team System specs
One of the things that we quietly rolled out yesterday along with the release of Microsoft® Visual...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 11/29/2007
November Rosario CTP now available!
I'm happy to announce that the next Community Technology Preview of Rosario (officially known as...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 11/28/2007
Flow of Value - Sam's book "live"
I have the distinct privilege of sitting in the office next to Sam Guckenheimer, the author of...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 11/24/2007
Standalone Team Explorer 2008 download available
For folks that need to install Team Explorer 2008, there's a separate download available here:...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 11/24/2007
TFS Times - new newsletter focused on all things TFS
Paul Hacker, one of our Team System MVPs, has started a great new newsletter entirely focused on TFS...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 11/24/2007
File a bug for free
One of the most common requests we've had with regard to TFS licensing, is to make it easier to...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 11/24/2007
VS2008 Demo and Training kit available
The Visual Studio 2008 Training Kit has been updated for the RTM and has been released on the...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 11/23/2007
Answering VS / TFS 2008 installation questions
Brian wrote a detailed blog article addressing several common questions about obtaining and...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 11/23/2007
Visual Studio 2008 SDK 1.0 released!
I am pleased to announce that following right on the heels of Visual Studio 2008 release on Monday,...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 11/22/2007
December Team System chats
Come chat with the Visual Studio Team System group – December 5th Join members of the Visual Studio...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 11/22/2007
Watch me on Channel 9
As part of the release of Visual Studio Team System 2008, I had a chance to join Soma announcing the...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 11/19/2007
Visual Studio Team System 2008 ships!
What else can I say? The big day has arrived (read the official word here on Soma's blog) and we're...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 11/19/2007
TFS-to-TFS migration
As more and more people are using TFS, we have been hearing requests to help customers migrate Team...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 11/16/2007
Bulk edit work items with Team System Web Access
I learned something new today by reading Buck's blog. He's started an occasional series on our new...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 11/07/2007
Team System 2008 shipping soon
In case you're not an avid reader of Soma's blog (why not!?), I just wanted to make sure everyone...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 11/07/2007
TeamData and TeamBuild: together at last
I was happy to see this morning that Gert posted an article discussing the latest issue of CoDe...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 11/07/2007
Windows Live Writer now available
I've been using prerelease versions of Windows Live Writer for a long time now and so it was good...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 11/07/2007
Team System guidance published to MSDN
You've heard me talk before about the Team System guidance that the patterns & practices team...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 11/02/2007
VS2008 Beta2 VPCs re-released
As the final act in our saga of expiring VPCs, I'm happy to announce that we've reissued VPCs for...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 10/29/2007
Update on expiring VS2008 Beta2 VPCs
Over the past few days I've been doing a lot of research around the issue of the VPCs issued with...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 10/27/2007
VS2008 Beta2 VPCs expiring prematurely
We recently discovered that the VPCs we distributed as part of the VS2008 Beta2 release will expire...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 10/25/2007
Check out the new Tester Center on MSDN
Testers play a critical role in the successful release of most software projects. However, to date,...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 10/22/2007