TFS Proxy Servers are essential for my current client’s TFSenvironment because they allow the disparate SharePoint development environment to experience improved network performance by caching copies of VC files. Since this particular environment is geo-distributed, this is a necessary architectural requirement in order to maintain appropriate developer efficiency.
Recently, a strange issue was occurring with [...]

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For TFS administrators that are really keeping an eye on their environment, it may bubble up that there is a top-heavy amount of execution time in the QueryBuildQueue command. At first glance this may appear to be a problem with the TFS instance in terms of server load.
The QueryBuildQueue command is generated by [...]

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Mirroring a TFS DT is a very common action within large environments for a variety of reasons, redundancy and failover obviously being the primary catalysts for such an implementation but there are also a variety of other reasons why this is a beneficial action.
At a current client of mine where I was setting up [...]

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This question came up with a client this morning, which is the first time I have had to answer it but it's a very straightforward issue.
What if one is trying to use TMG to publish a SharePoint environment for both HTTP and HTTP access, while the certificate is appropriately setup in the SharePoint server [...]

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Check-in policies within mature development environments are imperative, allowing the construction of code, to police checking in of code. Policies within TFS aid in enforcing restrictions and limitations whenever files are checked into TFS VC. TFS supplies a multitude of pre-existing check-in policies for actions like checking that unit tests are implemented, executing static code [...]

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