re: Proof point for improved TFS 2010 manageability

Rod Claar — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:27:48 GMT

Super! This will be a big help when the time comes! - Rod

re: Proof point for improved TFS 2010 manageability

Grant — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:45:27 GMT

@Rod - I was the one who did the detach and attach. If you have more questions about this, please contact me via my blog http://blogs.msdn.com/granth/contact.aspx

There's no special scripts or anything needed unless you are going from Pre-Beta1 or Beta1 (which we don't support).

See this MSDN article for how to Move a project collection using detach & attach. These are the steps we followed.

http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd936138(VS.100).aspx

We built a clean VM with SQL and TFS Beta2 installed (but not configured on it).

We then backed up the databases and restored them to this clean VM.

We then ran the TFS configuration wizard and selected 'Upgrade'. It found the Tfs_Configuration database that was on the server and upgraded it.

If you then want to upgrade this server from Beta2 to RTM, the next step would be to uninstall TFS & .NET4. Install TFS2010 RTM (when it's released), run the configuration wizard, select 'Upgrade'. It will once again detect the Tfs_Configuration database and upgrade it to the new version.

In the Team Foundation Administration console, you have the ability to Detach and Attach project collections.

re: Proof point for improved TFS 2010 manageability

Rod Claar — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 17:35:13 GMT

Thanks for sharing this, Brian.

Perhaps the people who did this might publish a blog post about the details of the process. What upgrade scripts were used, any gotchas and things not to do, etc.

Rod Claar

http://EffectiveAgileDev.com