Martin Woodward–The Accidental TFS Admin

martinwo@microsoft.com – @martinwoodward

One of the authors of the TFS 2010 book that we have.  New feature for intelliTrace symbol server (UNC file share) to store *.pdb files.  In TFS 2005 & TFS 2008, it assumed ownership.  Recommend creating an instance for TFS.  Sharepoint portal is optional.

Team Project Collection – a collection of team projects.  Change set, work items etc are now only unique across a team project collection.  One to one relationship between a team project collection and a SQL database.  We probably only one team project collection.

http://vs2010quickref.codeplex.com

Admin tools.  Process template editor.  Seen before.  tf help rollback.  tfsconfig license.  tfsconfig help changeserverid. tfpt addprojectportal, tfpt addprojectreports (say you didn’t have the reports on your team project before).

Installing (/ updating) TFS

clean machine – 64 bit

Use VM’s to practice – don’t use team reports or Sharepoint unless you need to.  Run BPA before upgrade and fix any issues.

Users and permissions – nothing new to us.TFS Administration Tool from Codeplex.  Can remove check – in permissions on a branch.  Warning this unchecks all permissions for all roles in TFS 2005 and 2008.  Can only fix by logging in as local admin on the AT.