Okay, I admit this isn\u2019t the kind of improvement that gets me jazzed about a service update, but we\u2019ve been getting a lot of questions lately about whether people could use the service for production projects. While we\u2019ve encouraged that from the beginning, the existing terms of service were pretty confusing on the subject. We decided we could do better, and the lawyers were great about clarifying things. It\u2019s still a legal document, so it still doesn\u2019t read like a children\u2019s book, and there are plenty of liability disclaimers as you get with all of these documents, but it very clearly states that you can use the service in production. Give it a read<\/a>, and check out section 3.3 for the production rights details.<\/p>\n Expansion Helpers for Area & Iteration Team Settings<\/strong><\/p>\n When your area and iteration hierarchies get large, it can become challenging to work with the tree view where you specify the area and iteration nodes that are relevant to your team\u2019s backlog and taskboard. This is mostly a problem for larger teams, or teams within teams, but I\u2019ll tell you we suffer it in spades. The devs added some simple auto-expansion buttons in the UI to toggle through a couple common states, making it much easier to find the tree nodes that are relevant for you. Here\u2019s a screenshot; you\u2019ll find it under your team settings in the administration UI:<\/p>\n And, that is it for this particular update. Look for more in the coming weeks as we continue to ship on this accelerated cadence and work toward even more frequent updates in the future. If you aren\u2019t already using our hosted Team Foundation Service, you can sign up for an invitation code at http:\/\/tfspreview.com<\/a> or ask a friend who has an account to share their 5-use friend code with you. If you\u2019re not ready to jump in but just want to know more, check out the videos<\/a> and the beginners guide<\/a> for the high level details.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Today, we pushed a small update to the hosted Team Foundation Service, and I wanted to share some insight into our update cadence and what\u2019s new in this particular release. We\u2019re going to be blogging about all of our interesting updates so that you can have an idea about what\u2019s new and pertinent to your […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":118,"featured_media":45953,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[253,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-azure-devops-server","category-devops"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":" Today, we pushed a small update to the hosted Team Foundation Service, and I wanted to share some insight into our update cadence and what\u2019s new in this particular release. We\u2019re going to be blogging about all of our interesting updates so that you can have an idea about what\u2019s new and pertinent to your […]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/118"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45953"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"clip_image002\"](\"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/devops\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2012\/03\/5383.clip_image002_thumb_204DC0DE.png\" "\\"clip_image002\\"")
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