Tell us about your Team Foundation Server

I'm working on some test planning for the next release of Team Foundation Server. One area I'm focused on is testing various possible configurations of TFS. Here are a few of the configurations we regularly test:

• All on one box - App Tier, Data Tier, SharePoint all on one machine
• Typical 2-box - AT and WSS on one box, and the DT on another box
• "Explosion" - AT, SQL RS, SQL AS, DT, WSS all on separate machines (you can take this even farther by moving databases to separate SQL machines/instances)

There are about two dozen variables that define a configuration, and there are nearly a hundred possible values spread across those variables. Since testing each of the thousands of combinations is impractical, we identify a subset of configurations using customer data, bug trends, code coverage, and other analysis, and test those (our configuration Matrix for Orcas ranged from 25-31 different configurations).

I'd like to collect more of that 'customer data' I just mentioned. By telling us what your actual TFS configuration looks like, we can make sure that the configurations we test map to ones actually deployed 'in the wild'.

To that end, I've created a short survey you can fill out to describe your TFS deployment. It's short (10 questions), you shouldn't need to provide any sensitive data, and it will help ensure that your current and future deployment strategy is one we understand and support. If you own or manage multiple TFS deployments, feel free to fill out the survey once for each.

The tenth question is free-form, so you can choose to provide more specific information if you like. Anything you send will be protected by Microsoft's Privacy Policy.

So please, take 5 minutes and tell us about your TFS.

Comments

• Anonymous
  December 17, 2007
  Chris Rathjen has posted a short survey to collect more information about real world TFS deployments

• Anonymous
  December 18, 2007
  In this season of the greatest survey of all (your holiday wish list), we seem to be brimming with surveys.

• Anonymous
  December 18, 2007
  In this season of the greatest survey of all (your holiday wish list), we seem to be brimming with surveys

• Anonymous
  December 18, 2007
  There, Chris. I have just provide the information of my company. G-Luck with the survey.

• Anonymous
  December 18, 2007
  Thanks! I'll post a follow up to some specific comments/requests in early January.

• Anonymous
  December 19, 2007
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• Anonymous
  December 19, 2007
  I provied my information.Thanks, it's really important.

• Anonymous
  December 19, 2007
  The VSTS team are working on some test planning for the next release of Team Foundation Server . One

• Anonymous
  December 26, 2007
  Chris Rathjen de l’équipe de test de Team Foundation Server recense avec une enquête très rapide, 10

• Anonymous
  December 26, 2007
  Chris Rathjen de l’équipe de test de Team Foundation Server recense avec une enquête très rapide, 10

• Anonymous
  January 10, 2008
  First, let me thank everyone who filled out the survey . With Brian and a few others spreading the word,

• Anonymous
  January 10, 2008
  First, let me thank everyone who filled out the survey . With Brian and a few others spreading the word

• Anonymous
  February 13, 2008
  no problem for me, wish u good luck lotz of greetings soulcalibur@wp.pl