When talking with our consulting customers and leading our 4-Hour Testing Workshops across North America, there is some common confusion about what exactly the differences are between Microsoft…

I love learning new things and today I learned something new for Team Foundation Server. This one has perplexed me in the past and it’s one of the areas that I just never dived down deep enough to try out…

Team Foundation Server has the ability to deliver e-mail alerts. I have talked about this feature a few times (like here, here, and here) and it’s a very handy feature of any work item tracking system let alone version control…

I have run into a new situation more often that caused a few concerns for me that I thought I would discuss it some here. Let’s face it: there are bugs in the Visual Studio family of products. People have reported performance problems…

I have a new favorite tool for managing and administering a Team Foundation Server environment from day to day. It has been so helpful both internally with administering our TFS environment but also as I go from site to site. A great part…

I’m absolutely a fan of SnagIt. It has a low cost and works super well for what it does! If you want to use SnagIt with Microsoft Test Manager and the new Feedback Client for Visual Studio…

Even though the TFS product team is planning to completely replace the awful source compare experience in the next version of TFS, I need something for use with prior versions of Visual Studio including Visual Studio 2010. The new…

Effective for Team Foundation Server 2010 users and assumingly going forward for Team Foundation Server 11, users who view read-only data for reporting purposes no longer need a TFS Client Access License (CAL). More information about…