re: Scotty’s question on Team Foundation Server Move Types
March 30, 2006
Scotty wrote:
“”Note For restore-based move types, the Team Foundation application-tier server name must be changed.”
Why is this so?”
We think it is because, in a restore-based move, you’re moving to a new physical server (new hardware) that will have a different MAC address (and potentially a new network address), but that TFSAdminUtil won’t correctly point to the new physical server if you try and run it using the old server name to point to a new server.
HTH,
SW
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Changing the AT name is absolutely not necessary, even when moving to new hardware. I successfully moved my TFS install to new hardware with the same name with no problems at all. Of course, you may well run into non-TFS problems along the way, especially if you have both the new and the old hosts running at the same time!