In this episode we chat with Ed Blankenship about his new job at Microsoft as a program manager on the Lab Management team.

Before recently joining Microsoft, Ed was a Microsoft MVP for TFS and Visual Studio ALM in which he has been involved & using since the very beginning of the products nearly seven years ago. He worked as the Practice Technical Lead for the ALM/TFS Consulting Practice as Imaginet (formerly Notion Solutions). Ed was also voted as the Visual Studio ALM & Team Foundation Server MVP of the Year for 2010 by his group of peers in the MVP Community.

He is also an author of the Wrox Professional Team Foundation Server 2012 and TFS 2010 books. You can follow Ed via is blog at http://www.edsquared.com/ or via twitter @edblankenship

Links from the show:

• TFS 2012 Power Tools are now available! [Brian Harry]
• Team Foundation Service Updates 9/17 [Aaron Bjork]
• Using a Lab Environment for Your Application Lifecycle [MSDN]
• Lab Management Overview Video
• TechEd Talk about Lab Management 2012
• Using CloudShare for Lab Management with TFS Preview
• Visual Studio ALM Rangers Lab Management Guidance

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