I just started with Team Foundation server and read different tutorials then tried it on default cloud server. As there is mentioned that we can only use team foundation server FREE up to 5 members. That is why I want to setup TFS on my server.
Please suggest me should I go for it ?
Is there any advantages of using TFS on cloud instead using it on my own local server?
Also is there any GOOD tutorial to setup TFS on my machine and enable it for my other team members remotely ? ( I am following this ) .
Zauk
TF Service is a nice way to get up and running quickly, without worrying about infrastructure, backups, etc. What you lose is some customization, lab management, and SSRS reporting, more info:
So which one to use is depending on your situation.
For tutorial on Install TFS
Just take a look on my 2 Guides about installing TFS 2012 and 2010, you will find step-by-step tutorial that explain to you exactly what you should do and how to verify every steps before moving to the next one, they have videos and documents with every detail steps needed.
I recommended to have a look on the whole sections because sometimes service accounts used for configuring different TFS components are very important.
TFS 2012 Guide
TFS 2010 Guide
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i have been researching about TFS proxy, i can't find any documentation to make sure that it work or doesn't work with TFS online. our online source control are in the US and we can't move them, and our development office is overseas. TFS Proxy seems to be the best option for us to speed the development process when interacting with source control.
There is experience of using proxy with vsts. You can find it here: How to configure a TFS proxy to work with Team Services.
It can be applied to team foundation version control only.
We have 2 TFS servers, one is inside the firewall, and the other one is outside the firewall. Because of security reasons, we still need to keep it this way. But the question is: is there a way to Sync these 2 TFS servers, say at every night?
Say we have servers TFS1 and TFS2, right now, we only want to Sync from TFS1 to TFS2, not bidirectional synchronization. If possible, we want to have complete synchronization.
I searched some time, but I could not find a good solution. It seems all recommendations are for old version TFS.
Are there any solutions for the latest TFS? existing products? Or, some information about API that we can use to make a tool for this?
Thanks
There is nothing changed with sync two TFS servers for the latest TFS version. Just as Daniel and many other expert suggested:
TFS generally lives in 1 instance and 1 only. TFS is a production
environment for the development team. It doesn't make sense to have
two TFS systems and have them synchronize to make this separation.
Having your teams work on two different TFS environments at the same
time is a very strange requirement.
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The best solution in your case, negotiating with your IT team, set up a safe and stable way to allow your top Management users to connect the internal TFS. You could also set up SSL for your TFS server to improve the safety.
It will also save you a lot of time costs for maintaining two servers syncing.
If you insist on syncing two TFS servers take a look at this similar question: Sychronising work between two TFS servers
Another way is using VSTS instead of your external TFS. Microsoft has documentation on this exact scenario which can be found here: Migrate to Visual Studio Team Services : Move from Team Foundation Server (TFS) to Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) and bring your data along.
This link also contains the download link for the migration tooling which you will want to use
Currently the following versions of TFS are supported for import:
TFS 2017 Update 3
TFS 2018
TFS 2018 Update 1
It appears a fair number of release management deployment tasks and templates are not in TFS 2015 on premise right now, and I'm trying to figure out if this is by design or if my installation has problems. For instance, I do not have a sql deployment task available to me. I haven't been able to find confirmation one way or the other, so does the on premise version just not have these tasks?
be aware that VSTS development is always some months ahead of on-premise TFS. Especially release management is quite new and many enhancments and tasks will probably find it's way to TFS. Either directly, as extension or you can create custom tasks by yourself.
As seen here:
https://github.com/Microsoft/vsts-tasks/issues/1674 it's a very young step and all you need to get it work on your local TFS is on github:
https://github.com/Microsoft/vsts-tasks/tree/master/Tasks/SqlServerDacpacDeployment
This is by designed. It seems you are using some Extensions. You can find this in available extensions on the right top of the web portal.
Then you can find those tasks in below page and just need manually install the tasks.
DacPac deployments are part of the extention "IIS Web App Deployment Using WinRM"
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscs-rm.iiswebapp
Download and install it on your TFS server. You need to have Windows Remote Management enabled on your database servers for it to work.
I found this web site useful in getting it setup on the database server
http://www.hurryupandwait.io/blog/understanding-and-troubleshooting-winrm-connection-and-authentication-a-thrill-seekers-guide-to-adventure
We are in a process of evaluating tfs azure.
We've migrated three of our projects(solutions) and created a specific project for each of the solutions in tfs azure.
Now we are looking for something to enable a visual overview of the current build status for all the three projects.
I know that I can get a overview of each project, by going to it's site, but I'd like an gathered overview of all the projects.
Today we are using Jenkins, connected to our local tfs 2010, and that gives us an direct overview of all the build statuses.
Does anybody know a tool for that?
After discussion with the Windows Azure team, the respons is that they don't support this at the moment. You can get a build overview on the project level, but not on the collection level.
I want to do daily migration of TFS changes to a ClearCase system. I was going to try out TFS Integration tools but I can't get any of the toolset pieces to work. What are the requirements to run this app? I have VS 2010, TFS 2010 and Sharepoint 2010 installed. The assemblies it's trying to load don't seem to be present in VS2010 and I don't if it requires VS 2008 or not. Anyone ever had this running? I'm migrating from TFS to CC. Not the other way around.
Update:
I've been using this tool to sync TFS 2010 changes back into a UCM ClearCase implementation at the client. It has been going poorly. The tool should be clearly marked as Beta or even Alpha. A peek into the code reveal around 100 TODO's and "This needs to be fixed". I have spent a good deal of time trying to iron out some of the issues and have made progress. My suggestion is before using this tool on mission critical projects, spend at least 3-4 weeks evaluating it in your environment. When it works, it works pretty well with moving changes.
I don't know much about how to access TFS2010 elements, besides "check an individual project for pre & postbuild steps either by loading the project in visual studio or manually reading the project file".
If you need Sharepoint assembly, this technote describes the requirements.
And I don't think an automatic import utility exists (from TFS2010 to ClearCase 7.1.x), as this technote mentions:
Change request (RFE) RATLC01005874 had been submitted requesting a conversion utility to export source code from Microsoft Team Foundation Version Control (TFVC) to ClearCase;
however, the decision was made by Product Management to exclude the requested feature from future upgrades and releases due to the significant architectural changes required to implement the solution.
The right approach is to manage to list the content of relevant labels for a given scope, and make a clearfsimport into a ClearCase view, with a full label applied right after it.
You don't need TFS (server), VS or SharePoint installed. You will need a SQL server for the core platform. Then you will need the various assemblies for TFS, which you can get by installing the Team Explorer component (it's on the TFS install media).
We decided to go with the TFS Integration Platform. It allows us to sync TFS work items back into ClearCase when ever we want. It provides the level of integration we needed to keep the traceability. The TFS to CC integration is bleeding edge, but it works enough for what we need. (Syncing work items and user check ins.)