This article aims to expand on the Upgrade overview and give a step by step walk-through of the upgrade to TFS 2017.There are some minor changes in the upgrade process that attempts to simplifies it. Upgrade Source Minimum Requirement: Your TFS databases must be at least at the TFS 2012 RTM level to jump to…
TFS 2010: A quick peek on TFS 2008 to TFS 2010 upgrade (Migration upgrade)
Upgrade: TFS 2008 to TFS 2010 The TFS install guide has instructions to both (in place and migration) types of upgrades possible in TFS 2010. While most of you would like to go for a Migration upgrade, simply for the reason that you can have both the TFS 2008 and upgraded TFS 2010 environments available…
Deploying and Schedule Azure WebJobs from VSTS to Azure Web App (With bonus CRON Scheduling)
WebAPI apps with WebJobs schedules are currently the intuitive way to work with Web Apps. In this article, I am going to show you how to deploy a WebApp along with Web Jobs, and as an added bonus, use Azure’s internal CRON Scheduler to schedule the WebJobs. Sweet! Let’s get started. We already have this…
Build and Deploy Azure Web Apps using Team Foundation Server/Services vNext Builds.
At Microsoft, we are constantly trying to improve the cloud services and integration to make it more productive and simple to accomplish complex tasks. Here’s a walkthrough on creating, publishing, building and deploying an Azure Web App using Visual Studio Team Services vNext builds. To keep this rudimentary, we will use the general template from…
Migration Update from Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2013 to TFS 2015 (With Reporting and SharePoint)
This is a walkthrough of TFS 2013 upgrade to TFS 2015 on a new hardware. During this upgrade our TFS 2013 server would be untouched and we would migrate all components (TFS, SharePoint and Reporting) to a new hardware which would be used by TFS 2015. Note: This post provides a general guidance and some…
Team Foundation Server 2015 RTM–Installation Steps
Earlier this month, we released the RTM version of the latest member of our TFS family: TFS 2015. To get started below is the simple installation of TFS 2015. To start with, you can check out the TFS 2015 RTM requirements and compatibilities here. Environment: TFS 2015 RTM SQL 2014 You can get the installation…
In-Place upgrade to Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2015 from TFS 2013
This upgrade document gives detailed step by step procedure for the In-Place upgrade from TFS 2013 to 2015 RTM with Reporting and SharePoint. Environment Details: TFS 2013 environment Windows server 2012 R2, TFS 2013 update 5, SQL 2014 SP1, SharePoint 2013 SP1 TFS 2015 environment Windows server 2012 R2, TFS 2015 RTM, SQL 2014 SP1,…
What version of Team Foundation Server do I have?
Team Foundation Server has improved a lot over the years. From being deployed to physical machine(s) to the cloud. There has been a variation in terms of updates pushed to Team Foundation Server from 2005 to the latest version (2013). In simple terms, in 2005, 2008 and 2010, the updates were given out as Service…
Migrating Team Foundation Server Databases
This article will be helpful if you are planning to move the databases used by your TFS deployment, to a new hardware. The databases to be migrated will depend on your deployment of TFS, and the components for which you choose to move the databases. This may include: TFS Databases Ø Configuration database (Tfs_Configuration) Ø…
Build association with work Items in vNext
When switching from XAML to vNext, I realized the newer build model doesn’t update Global List. Old XAML builds enabled a work flow where work items were created on build failure and then updated those work items, associated with check-ins on successful builds. I couldn’t find a similar feature happening out of the box on…