TFS 2012 Upgrade options

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Right from the launch of TFS 2012 a lot of users have been upgrading their previous version of TFS to the latest one. There have been a lot of queries around the possible and supported upgrade paths from their current version to TFS 2012. So we thought of coming up with a clear explanation of what are the upgrade paths are. We have explained the process for all the versions – TFS 2005, 2008 and 2010.

TFS 2005/TFS 2005 SP1 to TFS 2012:

The options available are

1. Upgrade to TFS 2008, then apply SP1 on TFS 2008. From TFS 2008 SP1 do a migration upgrade to TFS 2012. Only migration upgrade is possible because TFS 2012 works only on 64 bit server operating systems.

2. Do an in-place/migration upgrade of TFS 2010. From TFS 2010 do an in-place/migration upgrade to TFS 2012

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TFS 2008 RTM to TFS 2012: The options available are

1. Apply SP1 on TFS 2008. From TFS 2008 SP1 do a migration upgrade to TFS 2012. Only migration upgrade is possible because TFS 2012 works only on 64 bit server operating systems.

2. Do an in-place/migration upgrade of TFS 2010. From TFS 2010 do an in-place/migration upgrade to TFS 2012

3. Can run tfsconfig import command from an existing TSF 2012 server. The TFS databases must be restored on a minimum of SQL 2008 R2 for this.

TFS 2008 SP1 to TFS 2012: The options available are

1. Do a migration upgrade to TFS 2012. Only migration upgrade is possible because TFS 2012 works only on 64 bit server operating systems.

2. Do an in-place/migration upgrade of TFS 2010. From TFS 2010 do an in-place/migration upgrade to TFS 2012

3. Can run tfsconfig import command from an existing TSF 2012 server. The TFS databases must be restored on a minimum of SQL 2008 R2 for this.

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TFS 2010 RTM to TFS 2012: The options available are

1. Can do an in-place upgrade or migration upgrade depending on need.

2. Can run tfsconfig import command from an existing TSF 2012 server.

3. Can do a detach-attach of the collection databases.

The process of upgrade in discussed in the following flow chart

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The pre requisites and requirements for TFS 2012 are

· Hardware requirements - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/dd578592.aspx

· SQL requirements - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/dd631889.aspx

· SharePoint requirements - https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/hh667648.aspx

For more information about the steps involved in upgrade visit the Visual Studio ALM Ranger’s blog - https://vsarupgradeguide.codeplex.com/releases

 

Content Created By: Venkata Narasimhan A

Content Reviewed By: Romit Gulati