Team Foundation Server Administration

Team Foundation Server Administration Adopting Visual Studio Team System 2008

Mickey Williams Director, Center of Excellence [email protected]

Agenda • TFS Deployment Architecture • Team Projects • Users and Groups • Common Administrative Tasks

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Team System Components • Server Components – Team Foundation* Server – Build Server – Test Server – Test Rigs

– TFS Proxy

• Server integration – Active Directory Domain Controller – SMTP Server

• Client Components* – Team Editions

› For Software Architects › For Software Developers › For Software Testers › For Database Professionals › Team Suite – Team Explorer

– 3rd Party – MSSCCI Clients

• Client integration – Office Excel 2003 – Microsoft Project 2003

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Technical Architecture Team Foundation Client Tier

Version Control Proxy

Build Machine

Report Client

Team Foundation App Tier

Team System Web Access TSWA Client

Team Foundation Data Tier 4

Basic Configurations 1 user 1 machine Demo/Evaluation • • • •

Client Build App Tier Data Tier

To 500 users

Large teams Dual Server Large Team

Single Server Small Team

Client

• Client • Build (opt) Build Machine • App Tier • Data Tier • Build (opt)

App Tier

Version Control Proxy Data Tier

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Logical Deployment Local Clients

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Test Controller

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TFS App Tier

Test Rigs

Build Server

Remote Clients

TFS Proxy

TFS Data Tier

Team Foundation Proxy • Windows Server 2003 SP1 or better • Cached source control artifacts are stored in the file system • File system access must be locked down • File Names contain an ID so multiple versions of a file may reside in the cache

• Only ‘Get’ operations are cached

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Common Install Problems • Not following the installation guide correctly – Installing with the wrong account

• TFS accounts not configured as described in the installation guide

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SharePoint Installation Options • WSS 3.0 – Installed on TFS app-tier by default – Can optionally be installed on separate server

• MOSS 2007 – Can be installed on TFS app-tier

– Most common scenario is to leverage an existing MOSS installation – MOSS server requires extensions to be installed

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Agenda • TFS Deployment Architecture • Team Projects • Users and Groups • Common Administrative Tasks

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Team Projects • Server-side host for VSTS work • Includes all aspects of VSTS: – SharePoint team site – Work item tracking – Team source control

– Reporting – Testing – Builds

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Team Projects • Team project created from Team Explorer – Can be scripting with latest PowerTool release

• Two methods – File | New Team Project… – Right-click in Team Explorer

• Wizard guides you through project creation – Creates skeleton project on server – No projects created in source-code yet… ›

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Requires projects to be created and added to archive

Team Project Alerts • Alerts are commonly subscribed events – Are sent to subscribers via email or web service – Registration made under Team menu ›

Or right-click on team project

– Delivery very likely, but not transactional

• Subscriptions can also be made using the event subscription tool – Enables much finer-grained subscriptions – Community release (not an official product) – http://blogs.msdn.com/narend/archive/2006/07/26/679440.aspx

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Agenda • TFS Deployment Architecture • Team Projects • Users and Groups • Common Administrative Tasks

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TFS Permissions • Some predefined roles are pre-configured • Team Foundation Server Administrator – Install and Maintain TFS – Administer TFS Security – Create Team Projects

– Customize Process Guidance

• Team Project Manager – Maintain Team Project Work Items and Project Portal – Administer Team Project Security

• Team Project Contributor – Work Items Read/Write – View Team Project Web Site – View Team Project Process Guidance 15

TFS Default Server Groups • [SERVER]\Service Accounts – Domain\TFSService

• [SERVER]\Team Foundation Administrators – [SERVER]\Service Accounts – BUILTIN\Administrators – Domain\TFSSetup

• [SERVER]\Team Foundation Valid Users – All Team Foundation Users

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Team Project Default Groups • Administrators – Edit Team Project-level information

• Build Services – Start a Team Build – Edit Build Quality – Publish Test Results

• Project Contributor – View Team Project-level information – Start a Team Build – Publish Test Results

• Project Reader – View Team Project-level information

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Agenda • TFS Deployment Architecture • Team Projects • Users and Groups • Common Administrative Tasks

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TFS Backup • All data is stored in SQL Server • Standard SQL Server backup procedure • Backup all TFS-related databases • Scheduled or manual backups

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VSS Migration • VSSConverter tool enables migration with preserved history – Replays actions to preserve history – Tool included in VSTS installation: ›

<prog files>/Microsoft Visual Studio 8/VC

– Use VSS Analyze utility prior to conversion ›

Repair any existing errors

– Pre-analyze with VSSConverter.exe

– Optionally, treat VSS migration as a branch, without history

• Tools also available for: – SVN – CVS – ClearCase – TFS

• See the migration toolkit at Codeplex: – http://www.codeplex.com/MigrationSyncToolkit 20

Questions?