Can I confirm that if I already have a functioning TFS 2015 server and I want to upgrade an existing TFS 2010 server - I need to backup any existing collection DBs, reinstall TFS with upgrade of new instance and then restore/attach existing collection DBs?
In other words, there doesn't seem to be support for adding extra collection DB's from an older version? (e.g. like a SharePoint Content DB attach).
TFS upgrade guide is here: http://vsarupgradeguide.codeplex.com/releases and suggests a reinstall for Migration Path upgrade.
The process is described at When upgrading from TFS 2008 or TFS 2010.
Shortly, there is no direct path from 2010 to 2015, so you need to upgrade your collection to 2012 or 2013 (I recommend the latter).
In your case I would:
Backup, backup and make sure backup can be restored
Prepare a new TFS 2013 instance in a VM -- you may share the SQL instance if you are careful
Detach from TFS the 2010 collection you want to move
Copy the detached collection database to the SQL instance supporting TFS 2013 (you can use a full backup copy-only)
Attach the collection database on TFS 2013, the upgrade process starts asynchronously
Adjust the Process Templates etc. as described in the article
Detach the collection, now upgraded to 2013
Copy the detached collection database to the SQL instance supporting TFS 2015
Attach the collection database on TFS 2015, the upgrade process starts asynchronously
Adjust the Process Templates etc. as described in the article
I my experience the TFS detach and attach operations are generally safe, but may fail (e.g. 2012u2 attach was buggy); that is why I recommend backup with tested restore procedure.
Update:
In addition to Rangers' guidance, you may find useful SSW Rules to Better TFS 2015 Migration.
What you do is simply detach the collection though the TFS admin console, then backup & restore, then attach it to TFS 2015. The attach process will then do the upgrade on that collection. See this
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I've found this article about moving collections between TFS and DevOps:
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/devops/server/admin/move-project-collection?view=azure-devops
TFS 2012 isn't listed beneath the article heading, so I'm assuming it's not possible to move a 2012 collection to Azure DevOps. Can anyone confirm or otherwise?
I guess I could just try it, but I would need to do so out of hours to avoid the disruption of detaching the collection from the live TFS 2012 server. Now I can reattach it once it has been backed-up right?!
It isn't supported, as you can find in the Azure DevOps Services Migration Guide and the Migration tool, the current oldest version supported is Tfs2018 Update 3. So you will need to upgrade to that version first.
Do note that this will also mean that you need to upgrade the SQL server database your are using to MSSQL 2016.
We need to migrate projects in TFS from one server to another. On source server we have TFS 2010 with several VS.NET projects in the DefaultCollection. On the destination server, we have TFS 2013 with an empty DefaultCollection but 2 other collections in use by other developers. Each instance of TFS has its own SQL Server.
The problem we face is how to take the DefaultCollection from the TFS 2010 server and place it on the TFS 2013 Server?
I'm aware of several articles about migration but have not found one that exactly fits our situation. I appreciate any ideas anyone may have.
This is a very straightforward scenario.
Something along these lines should work:
Detach DefaultCollection from TFS 2010 using the admin console.
Take a backup of your TFS 2010 DefaultCollection database
Migrate the database to your TFS 2013 database server
Attach the TFS 2010 DefaultCollection database in TFS 2013 via the admin console. As part of the attaching process, you should be able to rename it.
The team project collection database will be upgraded to TFS 2013 and made available to users. At that point, you can go back and clean up unneeded project collections and rename things if you'd like.
Always take backups before you attempt any sort of migration or upgrade. I always recommend performing the upgrade against a test environment first.
HELP!!
I'm learning on the fly here with no training whatsoever! I'm a system administrator who is responsible for supporting the developers. They use Visual Studio, TFS, Plastic SCM and TeamCity amongst other tools.
My task was to get TFS 2015 and SQL Server 2014 installed on a new VM. This I have done but my biggest task now is setting up TFS which seems complicated.
For your information, The developers use TFS 2012 as a Kanban board.
Can anyone point me in the right direction to documentation that simply explains how to copy a project from one collection to another? I'm reluctant to move the project to the new version of TFS without testing the current project.
Thanks in advance.
You cannot copy a single project, there is the TFS integration platform, but it sucks and doesn't officially support TFS 2015
I would say your best bet is to follow the following steps.
In TFS 2012, detach the collection using the TFS Admin Console.
Backup the collection database in SQL server
Copy the backup to the new SQL server
Restore the Database
In the TFS Admin Console in TFS 2015, attach the collection
Wait for TFS to update the Database Schema.
You should now have the full team project collection available in the new server.
I have two TFS servers. One is a legacy TFS2010 server that contains an old collection of our projects. Last year, we spun up a new TFS2012 server. However, we never migrated our source code from the old server (we treated it as a fresh install and created new projects).
We are now looking at retiring the 2010 server completely and I want to migrate the legacy 2010 collection (actually all I care about is the source control and history) to the new server as a separate collection, but I can't figure out how. I've followed the instructions on MSDN (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/dd936138.aspx) but when I get to the step for attaching the collection on the new server, TFS complains that "no attachable databases were found" on the sql server.
I've also tried running the "tfsconfig Collection /attach" command on the target TFS server (even though numerous posts I read say it was deprecated in 2012). It tells me it can't connect to the target database server (even though my production collection is attached to it on that box).
Does anyone know if a collection migration from 2010 to 2012 is even possible or if I'm just spinning my wheels? There's no official documentation from Microsoft that I can find that says such a migration is even possible (even though there's nothing I can find that refutes it either)
Server Specs:
Old SQL Server: Enterprise 64 Bit 2008 SP3 (10.0.5500)
New SQL Server: Enterprise 64 Bit 2008R2 SP2 (10.50.4000)
Old TFS Server: 10.0.40219.1 (SP1 KB2182621)
New TFS Server: 11.0.60315.1 (TFS2012 Update 2)
You can migrate a single collection. The steps I know working are:
detach the collection from the 2010 instance using TFS Admin console
backup the database (or detach from SQL)
restore the database new SQL instance (or copy the files and attach them from SQL) -- check does not clash with existing database names
attach the collection from the 2012 TFS Admin Console
The last step will kick off the upgrade process: the collection will not be available until the process is complete. It could takes minutes or hours depending on the size, and make sure you have enough space for SQL transaction logs.
Take a look at Team Foundation Server Integration Tools (March 2012 Release): http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/eb77e739-c98c-4e36-9ead-fa115b27fefe
The TFS Integration Tools is a project developed by the Team
Foundation Server (TFS) product group and the Visual Studio ALM
Rangers to integrate Team Foundation Server with third party systems
for migration and synchronization of data.
There is a migration guide for TFS 2010 to TFS 2012 located here: https://upgradetfs2010totfs2012.codeplex.com/
it may be faster in some cases depending on the size of the projects that need to be moved (and the number) to start by importing the latest code into the existing version of 2012 since you are concerned only with moving the source code. You do loose the history however.
Do a in-place migration, described in Team Foundation Server Upgrade Guide, from Microsoft ALM Rangers (http://vsarupgradeguide.codeplex.com/), and next migrate the collection to the new server. From 2010 to 2012 it's a very simple migration.
Don't forget backup the databases before doing a in-place migration.
I have been searching the web for a clean solution on how to migrate our 2010 tfs collections to our new tfs 2012 server, but no luck. May someone please assist with the steps or a good blog I could look at to achieve this process. The reason we want to do a MIGRATION and not an upgrade is because we got new hardware and would first like to trial TFS 2012 before we upgrade our live environment. Therefore we would like to import all our collection including the work items and build process templates.
Here is a decent blog post: http://mohamedradwan.wordpress.com/2013/01/05/upgrade-tfs-2010-to-tfs-2012-with-migration-to-a-new-hardware-series/
The basic steps you want to follow are:
Backup all of your 2010 databases.
Restore those databases on the SQL Server on your new hardware.
On your new hardware, install TFS 2012
When it comes time to configure. Select the upgrade option.
It will asks where your databases are. Select the SQL Server that you used in #2.
Press Go.
Note, if you want to test 2012 with the same clients you are using for 2010 then you'll need to "clone" the system otherwise your clients will get confused. To do that, see http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/ee349259.aspx
You can move a collection at a time using the detach option in 2010 and attach it back to 2012 using the attach option there.
See http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd936138(v=vs.100).aspx