In this episode we wanted to learn a little bit more about what it takes to run TFS over the internet.

Play Now: Running TFS Over The Internet

Looking round for people to speak to we realised that we had one of the experts in this area in our co-host, Paul Hacker. So Mickey and Martin interviewed Paul to talk about what it takes to provide a hosted TFS service over the Internet, the architectures that he uses and what problems he runs into day to day.

Links from the show:

• Productivity Power Tools
• TFS Integration Platform
• DevLink in NashVille
• SaasMadeEasy (Paul's Hosted TFS company)
• Geeks with Blogs - Unofficial Prep Guide to TFS 2010 Exam

For questions or feedback email radiotfs@gmail.com. If you want to leave us an audio comment call +1 425 233 8379 or email us a short mp3 file with your message.

Sorry for the break in the usual schedule of Radio TFS episodes, Martin talks a little about the reasons for this at the begging of this show.

Play Now: End of Year Fireside Chat With Jeff Beehler

We continue our tradition of wrapping up the year with a yuletide chat with Jeff Beehler, Chief of Staff for Visual Studio.  This year we take a look at the progress with the Visual Studio 2010 Beta releases, the reasons behind the decision to release a public release candidate in the new year, the changes that have happened in the organization of the Visual Studio team in 2009 and look forward to 2010 when the new version of Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server is due to be released.

Links from the Show:

• Soma's Blog post on the Release Candidate
• Connect.microsoft.com
• MSDN Forums for VS 2010 Beta
• VS 2010 Beta Survey

For questions or feedback email radiotfs@gmail.com.  If you want to leave us an audio comment call +1 425 233 8379 or email us a short mp3 file with your message.  See you again in the new year, 2010 looks like it is going to be an interesting one!

In this episode we have the whole gang back together so we take the opportunity to catch up and talk about our impressions of the Team System 2010 Beta so far.

Play Now: Random Beta 1 Stuff

Links from the show:

• Team System Beta 1
• Scott Hanselman's Ultimate Tool List
  • SourceGear DiffMerge
  • Input Director (free for personal use)
• Matt Mitrick on Changing to Slot Mode in TFS

As usual, feedback to radiotfs@gmail.com - thanks for listening, and don't forget to subscribe to get all the latest shows first.

In the concluding part of our little antipodean special, Martin calls Anthony Borton and talks about the user group community in Australia as well as what functionality is in Visual Studio Team System for Testers now and in the future.

Play Now: Team Test with Anthony Borton

Anthony Borton is the ALM Practice Lead for Enhance ALM Pty Ltd, an Australian consulting and training company specializing in Application Lifecycle Management and Microsoft Visual Studio Team System.

He has been working with Visual Studio Team System full-time since 2005. Anthony has worked with a variety of companies ranging in size from just 3 employees up to some of Australia’s largest companies and financial institutions.

Anthony is the lead Microsoft Technical Readiness Instructor in Australia for Microsoft Visual Studio and has presented at the Microsoft launch events for both VSTS2005 and VSTS2008. Anthony is a Microsoft MVP (Team System), a Certified Scrum Master and a member of the INETA Speakers Bureau. He is also the president of the Queensland VSTS users group and maintains a blog at http://www.myvstsblog.com

Links from the show:

• Anthony Borton's blog
• Enhance ALM
• Queensland VSTS User Group
• TechEd Australia
• Visual Studio Team System Beta 1
• Microsoft Connect
• Brian Keller's 10-4 Episode on Functional UI Testing
• Brian Keller's 10-4 Episode on Manual Testing
• Team Test Blog

As usual - feedback to radiotfs@gmail.com.

In this episode we sit down with Grant Holliday and talk about how Microsoft uses Team Foundation Server internally.

Grant is widely recognized as one of the foremost experts of Visual Studio Team System Foundation Server. Prior to joining Microsoft Grant was a consultant at Readify and Team System MVP based in Canberra Australia. In this role Grant was one of the key architects for the first Team System Foundation Server Hosting offering in the World.  As a Program Manger on the Team Foundation Server team Grant is currently on the team that supports, optimizes, onboards and promotes TFS for Microsoft's internal customers.

Play Now: Dogfooding TFS

Links from the show:

• Grant's Blog
• Microsoft Process Template on Codeplex
• Book - The Build Master: Microsoft's Software Configuration Management Best Practices
  
• Slot Mode vs Item Mode - Matt Mitrick
• TFS Performace reports pack - Grant Blog
• Report VS2010 Issue on Connect

Special thanks to Dr Tiki from Tiki Bar TV for his cameo appearance midway through the show. As usual send feedback and show ideas to radiotfs@gmail.com.

This week Mickey and Martin sit down to talk about their experiences at TechEd 2009 North America and the recent release of Visual Studio Team System 2010 Beta 1. Thanks to The Coach for recording an introduction to the show, and thanks to Steve Andrews for having his microphone handy to record it.

Play Now: The Beta 1 Show

Links from the show:

• Eric Sink's Blog (http://www.ericsink.com)
• Recent Twitter comments on TFS (http://search.twitter.com/search?q=tfs)
• TFS To Go iPhone App (http://www.tfstogo.com/)
• VSTS Lab Management Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/lab_management/)
• VS 2010 and .NET 4.0 Beta 1 (http://shrinkster.com/16zz)
• Installation Gotcha on Buck Hodges blog (http://shrinkster.com/1704)
• Setup, Admin and Ops post from Brian Harry (http://shrinkster.com/1705)
• Extra steps required when upgrading a Team Project from 2008 to 2010 (http://shrinkster.com/1700)
• VS2005 support for TFS2010 (http://shrinkster.com/16zy)

We've got some interesting guests lined up over the next few weeks and lots of stuff to talk about now that TFS Beta 1 is available.  If you have anything that you would particularly like us to focus on then contact us at radiotfs@gmail.com 

In this episode Paul and Martin sit down with Brian Randell and talk about his two major passions in technology life, Team Foundation Server and Virtualization.

Play Now: Virtualizing Team Foundation Server

Brian A. Randell is a senior consultant with MCW Technologies, LLC. For over 20 years, Brian has been building software solutions and educating his fellow developers. Brian spends his time teaching Microsoft technologies to developers, working with new and emerging technologies like Visual Studio Team System 2008, and consulting worldwide for Fortune 500 companies like Microsoft, state and local governments, and small businesses. Brian enjoys helping people get the most out of their software. He does this through training for Pluralsight, and speaking at events such as VSLive!, Tech·Ed, and the PDC. In addition, Brian shares through the written word. Brian currently writes the Team System column for MSDN Magazine. He is the author and lead instructor of Pluralsight's Applied Team System and Applied Windows SharePoint Services courses.

Links from the show:

• Brian's Blog - http://mcwtech.com/cs/blogs/brianr/
• Tech·Ed North America 2009 - http://www.microsoft.com/events/TechEd2009/

Next week Mickey and I will be with Brian at Tech·Ed North America. We are hoping to sit down and chat with a few people while we are there. If you have anyone in particular you would like us to talk to or topics that you would like us to address then contact us at radiotfs@gmail.com

In this episode we sit down for the last time of 2008 and have a relaxed chat with Jeff Beehler, Team System Chief of Staff.  We discuss the history of Team System, how the teams in Microsoft go about shipping the Team System product and Jeff throws in some teasers about what will be coming along in the near future.

Play Now: A Chat with Jeff Beehler, Team System Chief of Staff

Links from the show:

• Jeff Beehler's Blog
• Branching Guidance on CodePlex
• Microsoft Connect Site
• Team System Home Page
• Microsoft Rosario Forums
• Channel 9

As usual please send any feedback to radiotfs@gmail.com. We didn't get chance to pick a competition winner from Show #14 so we will do that next episode.  Have a good New Year everyone, see you in 2009!

In this first episode back from the summer break we talk about the features available in TFS Version Control and talk about some of the fundamental concepts that you should understand to make your life easier.  Don't forget to stay tuned all the way to the end when Martin offers up a brainteaser for everyone and Paul goes crazy and offers a FULL copy of Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Suite to a lucky listener drawn at random who provides a correct answer to radiotfs@gmail.com before the end of August 2008.

If that is not enough for you, Mickey is running a competition over at Team System Rocks where you could win a years MSDN Premium Subscription with Visual Studio Team Suite.

Some links from this show:

• This Week on Channel 9 (http://channel9.msdn.com/shows/This+Week+On+Channel+9/), RSS Feeds (RSS | iPod/MP4 | Zune)
• Inside VSTS Column in Visual Studio Magazine (http://visualstudiomagazine.com/columns/columnist.aspx?columnistsid=62)
  
• TFS Sidekicks from Attrice (http://shrinkster.com/10w9)
• July 2008 TFS Power Tools (http://shrinkster.com/10wy)
  
• Team System Rocks Logo Competition (http://shrinkster.com/10wz)
• Martin's Workspace 101 Blog Post (http://shrinkster.com/10w7)
• Martin's Source Control with TFS slide deck (http://shrinkster.com/10w8)

Don't forget that you can subscribe to the show using the RSS Feed in iTunes or Zune (http://feeds.feedburner.com/radiotfs), you can also listen to the show direct using this link (http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/radiotfs/~5/356228001/radiotfs_008.mp3).

For feedback or suggestions for futures shows please contact us at radiotfs@gmail.com or leave a comment.

In this episode we talk about many of the new features in the beta release of Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2008, Service Pack 1.  Links from the episode are:

• Rob Caron's Blog (http://blogs.msdn.com/robcaron)
  
• Brian Harry's run-down on TFS 2008 SP1 Features (http://shrinkster.com/ybs)
• How to fail a build when tests fail before SP1 (http://shrinkster.com/ybx)
• How to fail a build when tests fail after SP1 (http://blogs.msdn.com/aaronhallberg/archive/2008/05/12/orcas-sp1-tfs-build-changes-part-2.aspx)
• How to upgrade the TFS 2008 installer to TFS 2008 SP1 (http://blogs.msdn.com/aabdou/archive/2008/05/13/team-foundation-server-sp1-beta-now-available.aspx)
  

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If you have any questions that you would like answered, or if you have any comments and feedback about the show then please contact us at radiotfs@gmail.com.

RadioTFS is back, and with some fresh changes.  First change is, we've added a third host:  Martin Woodward.  Don't know who Martin is and want to?  Then go listen to our latest podcast, RadioTFS Show #2 - What's new in TFS 2008 and Should You Upgrade.

Next change is, the RSS feed is different.  So if you are using the old RSS feed, you won't see the new show.  Click here to get the latest RSS Feed.

Click here for a direct link to the latest show.

We are looking for feedback and for listener questions.  So if you have any feedback on the show, what you like and don't like, things you would like us to cover, anything, send that feedback to radiotfs@gmail.com.  Also, we are looking for listener questions that we can answer during the podcast.    So send those to us as well at radiotfs@gmail.com.

We are looking at trying to do this bi-monthly, but given that all three of us have hectic schedules, as well as Martin lives in another country, don't hate us if we don't hit that schedule every time.  I'm not sure what the topic of the next podcast will be, but look for it in a couple of weeks.

Paul Hacker (editor-in-chief of TFSTimes.com) and Mickey Gousset have decided to try something new.  We've created a podcast called Radio TFS where we wax eloquently (or ramble on, take your pick) about all things Team System and Team Foundation Server.  For our first edition, we talk about us a little bit, and focus a good bit on Team Build.

You'll be able to tell when you listen to it that everything is completely unscripted.  We did some minimal planning, but wanted to keep it kind of natural.  Also, we are using Skype to do this, as Paul and I live across the country from each other.  As such, my audio is a little low. We'll see what we can do to fix that at some point, but remember, this is a bootstrap operation. 

The one thing I did find from this, and I think Paul will agree, is that it was a lot of fun.  Twenty minutes had passed before I realized it.  Paul and I are going to try and crank these out on at least a monthly basis, and possibly even more frequently.

So, go give the podcast a listen, and then email us and tell us what you think.  Let us know what you liked and didn't like, or any Team System topics you would like to cover in the future.  Heck, let us know if you'd be interested in being interviewed for the show.

Link to Episode 1

Link to Radio TFS Podcast RSS Feed.