Upgrade: TFS 2005 with Domain account to Orcas with Network Service

As I mentioned earlier we now support running TFS service as network service. The primary advantage of using network service is, you don't have to worry about managing the password for the account. If you are using VS 2005 TFS running under domain account and want to move to Orcas with TFS Service running under Network Service following are the steps.

Steps to upgrade TFS 2005 with Domain account to Orcas with Network Service

• Run Orcas TFS installer to upgrade from VS 2005 TFS to Orcas TFS. At end of the setup you will your TFS environment upgraded to Orcas with TFS service running under the service account used in Orcas.
  • We do not recommend you to change the service account at time of upgrade
• After the upgrade is over you can use TFSAdminUtil to change the service account. The command to change the service account is as follows
  • TFSAdminUtil changeaccount OldDomainAccount "NT Authority\Network Service"

Now you should have your Orcas environment up and running with Network Service.

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