SourceSafe 6.0d is Very Slow on a remote VPN Connection

Robert Hoghaug

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Nov 10, 2003, 6:14:06 PM11/10/03

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We have been using Source safe 6.0d on a local fast ethernet switched
network and it is working flawlessly. However when our engineers are at home
and want to checkout files to modify it is very slow. Is there something
that we need to do to get Soursafe to work faster over a Broadband
connection. Their connections are pretty fast (1mb donwload 256 upload) and
the Office Broadband connection is very quick (1mb+). I takes about 10sec to
get the right click menu and it takes about qa minuet or more to checkout a
file.

If anyone has an indea please let me know.

Thanks
Robert

Jacob Yang [MSFT]

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Nov 11, 2003, 12:41:29 AM11/11/03

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Hi Robert,

Based on my research and experience, the following article is useful to you.

Visual SourceSafe
Working from Home (Using RAS)
http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/guides/html/vstskWorking_from_Home.a
sp

In addition, I highly suggest using Offline projects if it is possible.

I hope it helps.

Best regards,
Jacob Yang
Microsoft Online Partner Support
Get Secure! ¨C www.microsoft.com/security
This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties and confers no rights.

Andreas Müller

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Nov 11, 2003, 3:42:32 AM11/11/03

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Jacob Yang [MSFT] wrote:

> Hi Robert,
>
> Based on my research and experience, the following article is useful
> to you.
>
> Visual SourceSafe
> Working from Home (Using RAS)
> http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/guides/html/vstskWorking_fro

> m_Home.a sp

>
> In addition, I highly suggest using Offline projects if it is
> possible.
>
> I hope it helps.
>
> Best regards,
> Jacob Yang
> Microsoft Online Partner Support
> Get Secure! ¨C www.microsoft.com/security
> This posting is provided "as is" with no warranties and confers no
> rights.

Hi,

based on my experience in working with Sourcesafe in a team that was
spread over America and Europe, the only practical way to go is
SourceOffsite from SourceGear:
http://www.sourcegear.com/sos/index.asp

HTH,
Andy

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Jeff Clausius

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Nov 11, 2003, 11:02:58 AM11/11/03

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robert:

as you have witnessed, remote access through a vpn to the vss files is
not necessarily the most effecient way to access your sourcesafe
repositories.

if you are looking for alternatives, have you seen this link from the
vss web site? - http://msdn.microsoft.com/ssafe/headlines/offer.asp

sourceoffsite was designed specifically for this purpose.

hth
jeff clausius
sourcegear corporation

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Robert Hoghaug

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Nov 11, 2003, 6:30:46 PM11/11/03

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We are not in the market to buy very expensive software to solve this
problem. We might as well go to open source CVS!
thanks anyway,
Robert

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Joe Masters

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Nov 11, 2003, 11:50:11 PM11/11/03

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Have a look at these other products:

VssConnect (http://www.voxcode.com)
Sekonden SourceWeb (http://sourceweb.sekonden.se/SekondenITAB.htm)
VSS.net (http://www.dmbcllc.com/products.htm)

Joe

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Robert Hoghaug

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Nov 12, 2003, 9:35:56 AM11/12/03

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Joe,
Thank You.

I hope at some point that Microsoft Pays attention to this problem and
realizes that engineers are not always all in the same place.

Thanks,
Robert
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Robert Hoghaug

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Nov 12, 2003, 9:46:55 AM11/12/03

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To Everyone,

I Looked at the software and yet again these guys do not know how to sell
software at a resonable price. I have just tole my guys to get faster
Broadband connections and we hope that fixes it.

If anyone has a suggestion other than trying to sell me overpriced software
I would really appeciate it. 100 dollars per client license is way to high.

Thanks again

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Michael Kelley

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Nov 12, 2003, 9:50:55 AM11/12/03

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Are your developers working for free or are you just cheap?

Jeff Clausius

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Nov 12, 2003, 10:38:42 AM11/12/03

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robert:

your welcome. sorry i couldn't be of more help.

jeff

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