Jeff Beehler's Blog
SourceSafe on Vista
Richard has some important news to share about SourceSafe support on Vista and he asked that I help...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 01/26/2007
Try out our Virtual Labs
Maybe this is old news to you. Certainly Rob and Brian have posted about it before. But since I'm...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 01/26/2007
New Work Item Tracking blog
I'm a big fan of the work item tracking features in TFS since I use them (and the resulting data in...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 01/25/2007
ET likes MSSCCI provider for TFS
My buddy ET has been working with us on TFS for as long as I can remember...in fact I think he was...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 01/25/2007
New TFS Version Control Blog
Take a look at the newly created Version Control blog for which Chandru (one of the devs on the...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 01/25/2007
TFS Server Manager
Brian has recently posted about a tool that he introduced to me way before we released TFS. I found...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 01/25/2007
Performance Testing Guidance Project
As I learn more about our customers through our various community activities, I'm realizing how...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 01/25/2007
Tell us what you think about reporting
The teams responsible for Team System reporting are interested in your feedback as they map out a...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 01/18/2007
More details on managing work for Team System
I've been meaning to write a more detailed post describing the mechanics for managing work for Team...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 01/15/2007
VS2005 SP1 bug list posted
If somehow you missed it, VS2005 SP1 was released last month. You can read more about that here....
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 01/13/2007
Martin's got a confession
I'm not sure if size matters, but if it does, Martin's laying claim to the World's Smallest TFS as...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 01/12/2007
Sam's Credo
Sam Guckenheimer, group product planner for Team System, has come out of his blogging hibernation to...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 12/11/2006
Good news from DataDude!
As Matt says, we are done! Team Edition for Database Professionals released to manufacturing last...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 12/04/2006
Another Team System chat - Wednesday, Dec 6th
Join members of the Visual Studio Team System product group (including me!) to discuss features...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 12/01/2006
TFS Roadmap now available
Brian Harry's been hinting for some time that he'd post the release roadmap for Team Foundation...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 12/01/2006
Community Tech Preview (CTP) program feedback
We've been discussing internally our CTP program and how to improve it. As part of that, we'd like...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 11/09/2006
yacc - yet another community chat
Ok...I couldn't resist a slight nod to my compiler heritage in the title of my blog post. For those...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 11/07/2006
Top Visual Studio Hotfixes available
Read all about it...the top VS2005 hotfixes are now available to download from the web. Before...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 11/01/2006
How's VS2005 SP1 beta working for you?
Recently I've been asking people I work with how the VS2005 SP1 beta is going. I've gotten various...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 11/01/2006
Chat about Data Dude
Come and join members from the Visual Studio Team Edition for Database Professionals product group...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 10/30/2006
Check out Data Dude!
If somehow you've missed all the excitement about Visual Studio Team Edition for DB Pros (aka Data...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 10/17/2006
Managing work for Team System
Martin Woodward, one of our newest Team System MVPs, was recently asking me about how we manage work...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 10/17/2006
Visual Studio Team System Public MSDN Chat
Come and join me and other members from the Visual Studio Team System product group to discuss...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 09/01/2006
What are value propositions anyway?
In my last post, I wrote about "value propositions" as one of the key items we received feedback on...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 08/30/2006
SDRs - getting customer feedback early and often
For three days last week we spent time with 30 customers representing a number of companies from...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 08/23/2006
Blogging again
I can't believe it...it's been just over 5 months since I last posted a blog entry when TFS shipped...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 08/18/2006
Team Foundation Server ships!
I’m happy to announce that this morning at 9am, the Team Foundation team signed off on and shipped...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 03/17/2006
Team Foundation Server RC Setup Experience Survey
To ensure Team Foundation Server is ready to ship, we are asking you to respond to another survey....
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 02/14/2006
TFS RC goes live
Just in case you missed the news from the bazzilion other blogs announcing this, the TFS RC is now...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 02/08/2006
Team Foundation signs off on Release Candidate
I’m happy to announce that Friday afternoon, the Team Foundation team signed off on their Release...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 02/03/2006
What's new in the TFS Release Candidate?
Since posting about the upcoming TFS Release Candidate, I’ve received numerous requests to describe...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 01/22/2006
Team Foundation Server Australian User Group Tour
Taking a lesson from Rob Caron, Prashant Sridharan and Michael Leworthy, I am celebrating the...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 01/21/2006
TFS Release Candidate coming soon
Sorry for being so quiet recently…we’ve been busy wrapping up our next pre-release of Team...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 01/19/2006
TFS December CTP now available
Continuing the long standing tradition, we have just upgraded our team’s dogfood server and...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 12/04/2005
Team Foundation Server Setup Experience
The Team Foundation Server setup experience has been evolving for over a year now in response to...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 12/02/2005
Ask mode: New reason to postpone bugs?
As a response to my latest post about Team Foundation entering ask mode, TAG responded asking if...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 11/26/2005
Team Foundation enters Ask Mode
As we get closer to our eventual ship date for Team Foundation, one of the important milestones is...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 11/24/2005
Watch me (and others) on Channel 9
Robert Scoble interviewed John Lawrence, Eric Lee, John Cunningham and myself about our internal...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 11/23/2005
OGFs
I’d recommend reading Chris’ explanation of OGFs and how we use them at Microsoft. I remember when I...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 11/07/2005
TFS Beta3 Setup Survey
Please take a moment to fill out the survey on your TFS Beta3 experience...we're very interested in...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 10/17/2005
Refreshing TFS Beta3
When we announced our plans for Beta3 of TFS, we also announced our intention to provide support for...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 10/14/2005
TFS Beta3 "go live" details posted
Several people have asked recently about our "go live" license for Beta3. While we had intended for...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 10/09/2005
Early reports of success in the wild
Folks have started downloading TFS Beta3 and are already reporting success. For instance, read Sam’s...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 09/24/2005
Team Foundation Beta3 released
Today, at 2pm, after reviewing the test pass results and the status of other exit criteria, the Team...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 09/21/2005
TFS Beta3 VPC availability
Several people responded to my last entry asking about the availability of VPC images of TFS Beta3....
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 09/20/2005
TFS Beta3 release imminent
We are in the final days of the TFS Beta3 endgame. We’ve been dogfooding updated bits for over a...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 09/17/2005
July VSTS/VSTF CTP released
The VSTS teams are dogfooding a new drop of Team Foundation to use on a daily basis. I've been...
Author: Jeff Beehler (MSFT) Date: 07/31/2005