What are people doing to for project portal connections/document libraries in TFS 2018 now that MS has removed the SharePoint Integration? We had a TFS2013 environment that's been upgraded to 2018, but we're still trying to figure out what to do with the documents associated with the projects that used to be accessible via the "project portal".
You can continue to use Sharepoint. Just put a link to the Sharepoint portal in the team dashboard.
The only thing lost when the SP integration was deprecated were the Sharepoint dashboards, which were inferior to the dashboards already in TFS.
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We have TFS 2015 (on-premise) and Microsoft Teams in the cloud.
I am trying to find the TFS plug-in (all I can see is Azure DevOps) and want to be able to show TFS information inside of Teams.
I see lots of articles on how this use to work? But can't find it in my list of plugins to add into the system.
Is there something we need to do at a server level?
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There is an official extension-- Microsoft Teams Integration.
With using this, you are able to see activity about your Azure DevOps or Team Foundation Server projects directly in your Microsoft Teams channel, for example:
Work item updates
Pull requests
Code commits
Builds
Release deployments and approvals
Work item updates
Azure DevOps Kanban board
However, as the link declare clearly, it only work with Team Foundation Server 2017 Update 2 and above. It's not able to do this with TFS2015. You need to upgrade your TFS version. With higher version, you could also get more released new features in TFS.
Is Microsoft still working on both products? Has development on TFS been dropped in favour of VSTS?
For context, we are using TFS right now and VSTS clearly has better integration. Specifically with Microsoft Teams and ZenDesk which is important to getting our workflow process in a more manageable state. However, VSTS doesn't have anywhere near the configuration or reporting that we require.
Will either product eventually have the full feature set or will we have to choose and build our own integrations or reporting?
Now Azure DevOps and Azure DevOps Server, but the rest of the story remains intact.
Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and Team Foundation Server (TFS) are based on the same codebase. VSTS is deployed to the cloud every 3 weeks or faster. TFS has received a major upgrade yearly (2015, 2017, 2018) and a major update pack every 3 to 4 months (2015.0-3, 2017.0-3, 2018.0-1).
Most new features are released to Visual Studio Team Services first and are integrated into Team Foundation Server with a bit of a delay. Some features are available in VSTS which depend on cloud resources, so they're not likely to move to TFS anytime soon.
With regards to reporting, this has been a bit of an Achilles' heel of VSTS. It has never had the Report Server and Analysis Cube capabilities of TFS. It does offer integration with PowerBI and that integration is quickly getting better.
You can see the overview of feature availability between cloud (VSTS) and server (TFS) on the Feature Timeline, as you can see a lot of new things happening, most of them are hitting VSTS first.
Microsoft offers a support lifecycle for Team Foundation Server and currently, it looks like Microsoft won't abandon their on-premise customers anytime soon. TFS 2018 has an extended support lifecycle all the way to 2028:
Products Released Lifecycle Start Date Mainstream Support End Date Extended Support End Date Service Pack Support End Date Notes
Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2018 11/15/2017 1/10/2023 1/11/2028
I am trying use the mass-update feature from projects and excel.
The add-in doesn't have Team addin to enable in MS excel.
I have access to TFS though.
If you just want to enable the add-in in Excel, then you need to install Visual Studio or at least install the Team Explorer. Generally the add-in will automatically enabled. If you still cannot see the Team ribbon, you can refer to below article for troubleshooting: TFS-Office integration issues
In your scenario, you can use the TFS Office Integration Installer. This new installer just includes the Office integration component (Excel, Project, etc) and is therefore lighter weight. See this blog : TFS Office Integration Installer
For 2017 version : Team Foundation Server Office Integration 2017 (version 15.3)
Note that support for integrating TFS with Project Server is
deprecated for TFS 2017. However, synchronization support is provided
by a third part. See Synchronize TFS with Project Server for
details.
Source here : Office integration tools
We have upgraded TFS2008 to 2013 on a new server and source control/workitem tracking is okay - we can use all that from within VS2013 Pro.
We have also upgraded Sharepoint (containing all the project documentation) to a new database server and using the TFS 2013 Adminisration Console we can see the Team Projects listed there.
However although from the VS2013 Team Exlorer we can add the team projects and open the 'web portal' for each team project, we cannot see any of the documents nor can we (seemingly) view in a browser the portal that in VS2008 shows the document libraries.
Are we missing something in the unfamiliar interface, or can anyone advise what the cause might be and how to fix it?
You need to "wire up" the Team Projects to the Sharepoint sites. It sounds like they have been detached through the order of the upgrade.
Sharepoint needs to be upgraded and available during the upgrade process or this happens
You can however easily wire them back up. In the Team Project in Visual Studio go to the Team Explorer and do "Settings|Portal".
You should have a dialog for wiring up The existing Sharepoint to the Team Project.
If you don't you may have Tbeen disconnected at the collection level. In which case you can open the TFS Administration Console and follow: http://nakedalm.com/integrate-sharepoint-2013-with-team-foundation-server-2013/
I would like to know if there is a possibility to create a team project in TFS2015!! in the Web Interface without using Visual Studio?
This is not currently possible.
This is due to TFS's capability to interface with SharePoint and Reporting Services.
Update: This is now possible in TFS 2015 Update 2 (however, there is a limitation that it won't create an associated SharePoint portal or SSRS reports).