Jeff Beehler's Blog
Help us design the Build Notification Applet
As Jim Lamb points out, one of the improvements we'd like to make to our upcoming release of...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 05/22/2007
Team System Orcas Beta feedback trickling in
I was happy to see Orcas Beta1 feedback from our Team System MVP and friend Willy-Peter yesterday....
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 05/22/2007
Team Architect's plans for Power Tools
Over the past year, we've been trying to release components to you out of band from our major...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 05/17/2007
Tell us about Beta1
Brian's asking folks about their reaction to Team System "Orcas" Beta1: We released Orcas Beta 1 a...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 05/10/2007
MySpace uses Team System
At last week's MIX07 conference, our friends from MySpace talked about the technology they use to...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 05/06/2007
Answering questions with the cube
I know I just posted about this, but as I was reading my mail, I ran across a conversation between...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 05/05/2007
Pre-release of DBPro service release now available!
The DataDude team, aka the team that develops Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals,...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 05/05/2007
The TFS Cube revealed
Wow! I'll say it again...wow! Jimmy Li has just posted a fantastic blog post on understanding the...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 05/05/2007
YATSCS: Yet Another Team System Case Study
These seem to be coming out of the woodwork...I just posted an announcement of three new ones...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 05/03/2007
All Orcas Beta1 downloads now available
I'm happy to announce that all of the Visual Studio Team System "Orcas" Beta1 downloads are now...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 05/03/2007
Motivating teams to engage with customers
Here’s good list of ideas from Josh on motivating folks to engage with customers. While this isn't...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 05/02/2007
Three more Team System case studies available
With three new case studies available, we bring the total number for Team System to five: New! KBC...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 05/01/2007
Chicago .NET Users Group
My buddy Clark Sell has asked me to share with my readership that the next meeting of the Chicago...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 05/01/2007
Guidance for Structuring Team Projects
I've been working closely with customers for over two years now as they've planned their deployments...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 04/30/2007
More TFS videos available on Channel 9
We recently posted two new Channel 9 videos for your viewing pleasure. Using Team Foundation Server...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 04/27/2007
Another chat - by popular demand
Based on the feedback that we've received on our upcoming chat, we decided to add another session...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 04/26/2007
New case study for Team System available: Clear Channel
“With Visual Studio Team System, we thought we were buying developer tools; what we got was a...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 04/26/2007
New forums for Team Developer
To help us better align our Team Developer forums with our feature and how our customers use our...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 04/25/2007
Read about Rosario
As we announced last month, the version of Team System that we're working on after Team System...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 04/25/2007
Customizing Team Build
I'm speaking at TechEd 2007 in Orlando this coming June on the whys and hows of customizing TFS. As...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 04/25/2007
Team System Chat - Friday, April 27th
Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 04/22/2007
New Team Architect blog available
As I've mentioned before, I watch over the community efforts within the Team System team. As part of...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 04/21/2007
Over 500 Million served
I'm old enough to remember when McDonald's would display the number (in millions and billions) of...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 04/21/2007
WSS 3.0 support for TFS v1
If you're a SharePoint user and haven't tried out the new version (WSS 3.0), you're missing out. We...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 04/21/2007
Time Tracking: what do you think?
Gregg's asking for your feedback on time tracking for software development projects...an issue that...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 04/21/2007
Migrating to TFS
One of my jobs on the Team System team is to work with the Rangers who are focused on accelerating...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 04/21/2007
The many faces of quality
Brian's been compiling a great series of posts regarding managing quality which I would highly...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 04/21/2007
Watch Soma on Channel 9 talk about Orcas Beta 1
Hopefully by now you've had a chance to download Orcas Beta1 and try it out for yourself. I, for...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 04/21/2007
Team System Roadmap
In addition to the announcement of today's devBiz acquisition, we have publicly published a roadmap...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/26/2007
Microsoft acquires TeamPlain
TeamPlain is a web front end for VSTS that enables users to access the majority of TFS functionality...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/26/2007
VSTS Guidance project update
I strongly encourage everyone to take a look at the VSTS Guidance project update recently posted by...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/26/2007
Branching guidance now available
I'm extremely excited to announce the availability of Branching guidance for Team Foundation Server....
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/21/2007
Happy Anniversary TFS!
It's been exactly 1 year since we released the golden version of Team Foundation Server v1! This...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/17/2007
new Chicago area Team System user group
I just received this invitation to join a new Chicago area Team System user group. I'm busy that...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/14/2007
Managing Orcas Beta exit criteria by dogfooding TFS
I've written a few times about our usage of TFS while we develop newer versions of Visual Studio and...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/05/2007
One more goodie with the March CTP
There really is just so much in the recently released Visual Studio March CTP that it's frankly hard...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/04/2007
Team System Guidance
J.D. Meier was recently telling me the way he distinguishes between product documentation and...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/03/2007
More goodness from March CTP
I mentioned some of the aspects of the Visual Studio March CTP in a recent post and here's another...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/03/2007
Work item type rules
Sometimes I feel a little like I'm sitting at an information desk in a mall directing people to what...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/03/2007
Reporting from Visio?!
When I first read Ameya's new post regarding using Visio as a reporting tool for TFS, I thought he...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/03/2007
Check out this Vista gadget
Mario posted this week about a Vista gadget the Team Foundation team is working on. He writes: Today...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/03/2007
Check out March CTP of Visual Studio Orcas
Just a couple days ago we released the March CTP of Visual Studio Orcas. This represents a large...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/02/2007
Software Testers Deep Dive
We recently ran a bootcamp for some of our internal teams on the testing capabilities of Visual...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/02/2007
Ed Glas comes out of hibernation
Well, maybe it's not hibernation in the typical sense, but Ed just wrote 4 blog posts after a bit of...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 02/19/2007
Provide feedback on MS Project integration
I'm excited about the level of customer engagement and feedback our Team System teams are getting as...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 02/09/2007
Visual Studio Team System Chat - This Wednesday
Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss features available in Visual...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 02/06/2007
Buck wants to hear from you
Buck Hodges is working on the Team Build portion of TFS and was recently reading through a...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 02/01/2007
Organizing your source trees in TFS (an example)
I must be on a little patterns & practices binge right now now as this is my third post in the...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 02/01/2007
Check out the p&p Channel 9 interview
Edward Jezierski and Peter Provost spoke with Rory of Channel 9 recently. Pretty interesting to hear...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 01/31/2007
Thousands and thousands of software factories!
Over 100,000 to be precise. Take a look at Soma's recent announcement of this important milestone...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 01/27/2007