Attach and upgrade TFS 2005 databases to a TFS 2008 installation - tfs

I have a Windows server 2008 with SQL 2008 and TFS 2008 installed. And I have another box with SQL 2005 and TFS 2005 installed. Does anyone know of a way I can just transfer the databases (or data in another way) from TFS 2005 to TFS 2008. Any data on the 2008 box can be deleted.
The machines are not in a domain so all accounts are local. So I'll have to fix that afterwards, but that's managable.
Basically, can I attach the databases and run an upgrade command?

I'm pretty sure that this is a supported option. Please see:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=FF12844F-398C-4FE9-8B0D-9E84181D9923&displaylang=en
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In-place migration from TFS 2010 to TFS 2015

I have a question about in-place upgrading from Team Foundation Server 2010 to Team Foundation Server 2015
Our current situation contains the following software versions:
- Windows Server 2008 R2
- SQL Server 2008 R2
- Team foundation Server 2010
We would like to perform an in-place upgrade of this server to the following new versions.
- Windows Server 2012 R2
- SQL Server 2014
- Team Foundation Server 2015
It is a single server installation on a VMWare environment. Adding additional resources is not a problem. So for that reason we would like to go for an in-place upgrade.
With the information I found on https://msdn.microsoft.com/library/vs/alm/tfs/administer/requirements it does not seem to be possible with our current SQL version to upgrade to TFS 2015 in one go.
Should we first upgrade to TFS 2012 (which still supports SQL Server 2008 R2)? Then upgrade to SQL 2012 SP1, then TFS 2015..and so on.
Or should it be easier in our situation to migrate the TFS 2010 databases to an new server with all the latest versions and then upgrade the databases (and so not performing an in-place upgrade after all)?
There is a lot of documentation describing various migration scenario's so that is causing some confusion.
Can someone give us some suggestions or answer on what is the best way forward?
What you could do is:
Uninstall TFS from the current server
Uninstall SQL Server on the current server
Install SQL Server 2014 on it
Attach the databases to the SQL Server 2014
Install TFS 2015 and walk through the upgrade wizard.
It's sort of an in-place upgrade. Indeed be aware of the Sharepoint issue, it will be your pressing reason to make in in-between upgrade stop along the way, should you need it.
I see many client de-coupling Sharepoint from TFS anyway, as the Sharepoint functionality is rarely used, or even known.
Something else to consider. If you're using any of the sharepoint functionality in TFS 2010, and you want to keep the stuff stored there, then you'll probably want to upgrade to TFS 2012 anyway. TFS 2010 uses WSS 3.0 and TFS 2015 uses the latest version of sharepoint express. There is no direct migration from WSS 3.0 to the latest version so you'll need to use the bundled version in TFS 2012 as an intermediary upgrade.
If sharepoint isn't an issue then I'd suggest building out new infrastructure and migrating the TFS databases. This will be easier and IMHO has a couple of other benefits.
you can do a test migration to flush out any additional issues
get some timings so you know how long the real migration will take

In Tfs 2008 to 2010 upgrade how to point tfs database of another server in the configure wizard?

Tfs 2008 to be upgraded to TFS 2010, how do i point the database which is in another server in different domain? Otherwise is it possible to install as fresh and then move the database from TFS 2008 to TFS 2010? is there a option to directly move the database from TFS 2008 to TFS 2010.
Basically you back up the databases, restore them on the new server and use the configuration wizard to upgrade them.
There's a number of blog posts with good walkthroughs.
http://blog.hinshelwood.com/upgrading-team-foundation-server-2008-to-2010/

Do I need a seperate SQL Server license for Team Foundation Server 2010

I am installing TFS 2010, and it does not install SQL and sharepoint automatically. I am assuming I need to manually install this.
Do I need a serpeate license ontop of the TFS license?
TFS 2010 gives you a license to SQL Server 2008 Standard edition for the sole purpose of using it as a TFS Database. The database must also be installed on the same server as TFS application tier. This is explained in detail in the Visual Studio 2010 licensing whitepaper.
It is best to install SQL Server and Sharepoint (Foundation or MOSS) before you start TFS install and then TFS can be configured to use this in post-install steps. The TFS installation guide is extremely useful. I have just gone through this process myself.

TFS2010 import TFS2008 sharepoint sites and content

I'm testing a TFS 2010 install. I have the server set up and TFS 2010 installed. I have imported the projects from the existing TFS2008 server by doing backup's and loading them into the new sql server and then doing the import, which allworks fine.
How ever how do i get the Sharepoint site moved to the new server.
Environment is a single server install with TFS, SQL and sharepoint running on the same box. this is the same for 2008 and 2010.
thanks
I'm not sure that you wanted to do your migration this way. The TFS 2010 installation wizard includes an upgrade path, which should take care of all aspects of the upgrade for you.

Connecting Visual Studio 2005 to Team Foundation Server 2008

As of now we are using vs2005. We are newly setting up TFS 2008. How do I connect TFS 2008 client to vs 2005 without upgrading it to vs2008 in my system? When I installed TFS 2008 client the options are appearing in VS2008 but not in vs2005.
We have been using VS2005 with the Team Explorer client for 2005, talking to a TFS2008 server for a fewe months. When we upgraded from TFS2005 to 2008, we had no issues with client connectivity at all. If you are sticking with VS2005, then you should not need to install the 2008 client - just use the 2005 one.

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