Canberra .NET User Group: "Windows Azure with TFS" - Grant Holliday

PLEASE NOTE: Microsoft Canberra has moved. The user group will be held at Microsoft's new address: Level 4, 6 National Circuit, Barton.

Building and running a large scale service on Windows Azure – Behind the scenes of the Team Foundation Service - Grant Holliday

In this session, we will take an exclusive look behind the scenes of the Team Foundation Service and explore what it takes to build and operate a large scale service on Windows Azure.

About the presenter:
Grant Holliday is a Senior Service Engineer for the Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Service. Team Foundation Service offers a version of Team Foundation Server hosted in Windows Azure, accessible from anywhere using existing and familiar tools, and supporting all languages and platforms. As a Service Engineer he works behind the scenes to keep the service up and running smoothly for customers around the world. Prior to this role, he travelled around Australia visiting customers and performing TFS and SQL health checks. He also spent three years in Redmond, Washington as a Program Manager in the TFS product group. He was responsible for the internal TFS server deployments at Microsoft, including the largest and busiest TFS server in the world used by Developer Division. Grant shares his experiences managing TFS at his blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/granth/