I noticed that I can change the order of the PBIs of the current sprint on visualstudio.com via Drag&Drop. At work we use TFS 2013 on our own server (I think the newest version Update 4) and that's not possible. Both use the SCRUM template.
Is this a configuration issue? It would help a lot if this would work at our own TFS too. What should I do?
The features available in VSO are beyond that of TFS 2013 update 4. The feature that you are referring to is planned for TFS 2015.
https://www.visualstudio.com/en-gb/news/release-archive-vso
For most customers, regardless of size, I recommend moving to VSO to get access to the latest and greatest features as they become available.
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My team is performing an analysis on which TFS version to upgrade to (from 2010).
One issue that we have faced daily is that TFS 2010 will log pending changes on files that are unchanged. For example, if I edit the JavaScript on HomePage.aspx, while leaving HomePage.aspx.cs and HomePage.aspx.designer.cs unchanged, the later two files will still log as pending changes, resulting with 3 files in the pending changes tab.
This post addresses this issue, and even has a semi-appropriate answer. But I'm wondering, has this issue has been fixed in terms of using TFS 'out of the box' with TFS 2017 or 2018? Do I really need to use TFS Power Tools with the latest version of TFS to get around this annoyance? I see many people saying that Power Tools doesn't solve the issue for all configurations.
That's Visual Studio behavior, not TFVC. I would expect that the behavior will remain the same regardless of the version of TFS you use.
That said, you should upgrade to 2018, period. There's no benefit to upgrading to a version that's already supplanted by a newer major release.
#Daniel is correct. This behavior remains no matter which version of TFS you are using. You could see HomePage.aspx.cs and HomePage.aspx.designer.cs belong to HomePage.aspx, TFS treats them as one file. If you check the history of HomePage.aspx.cs and HomePage.aspx.designer.cs, you'll find no new history produces, as during check-in, TFS detects there is no changes for these two files:
My TFS version is 2013.4 and I need EPIC workitem type in the Scrum 2013.4 process template.
I was trying to follow the instructions here but EPIC.XML is not found in the process template. Can anyone please let me know will I be able to make the following changes to get the EPICS? Where should I download the EPIC.XML file to import it?
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/tfssetup/2015/09/16/configuring-the-epics-for-upgraded-team-projects-in-team-foundation-server-tfs-2015/
TFS 2013 did not have an epic work item type. Upgrade to a modern version of TFS.
Although you may be able to backport the work item type into prior versions of TFS, you won't have any of the additional features that were released in TFS 2015 around backlog management.
We currently have a TFS 2012 Server which is being replaced by a 2015 server, the aim is to gradually migrate our code from one to the other.
When we do this we would like to maintain the checkin history, labels etc, Looking at similar questions the answer seemed to be to use the integration toolkit, however it looks like it (and its successor the integration platform) do not support TFS 2015.
We are using TFVC rather than git, if that makes a difference.
I don't have much knowledge about the integration toolkit, but I would actually suggest to do the upgrade one Team Project Collection at a time, but moving them separately to a new server with TFS 2015 installed. This way you will keep all history, label etc.
We have done this way back when upgrading from TFS 2010 to TFS 2013. Only obstacle that we had was a collection around 500 GB in size so it took around 16 hours for the upgrade to finish.
The following answer specifies the steps needed to move a collection to another server:
Copy TFS 2012 collection to another server with TFS 2015 Installed
We have used this Migration tool for our Client.
It’s possible to migrate TFS 2012 data to TFS 2015 with all information intact without any system downtime. The premium version of OpsHub Visual Studio Migration Utility (OVSMU) supports migration of projects with TFVC repository from one instance to another. It supports the 2010, 2012, 2013, and 2015 versions of TFS and all versions of Visual Studio Online, including the 2017 version. Along with basic data, you can migrate all workitems with history, comments, attachments, relationships, and source control with changesets, history, labels, comments, etc. You can checkout the details here: https://www.opshub.com/products/opshub-visual-studio-migration-utility/
I have a requirement of moving Team projects between two team project collections in TFS 2015. Also need the History & Label to be moved to the new collection.
I am aware there is no direct way of moving the project between collection along with history & label.
Can someone suggest a better way to handle it?
Thanks in Advance,
Dinesh
There is already a UserVoice for this request, and this feature is under plan:
We are committed to allow you to move team projects between
collections, although it’s currently not in scope for the 2016
calendar year. We’ll provide an updated timeline as we get closer to
2017.
An alternative, you can try with 3rd tools to move team projects, such as TFS Integration Tools, OpsHub. Please read the limitations before using the tools.
Spent a while trying to figure this one out as our old Scrum for Team systems template did this in previous version of TFS, however I can't find a way to make a PBI automatically change its state to Done when all the associated tasks are done in TFS 2012.
Thanks
I haven't seen an out-of-the-box solution, but TFS Aggregator is a plugin that is designed to handle this scenario.