Upgrade: TFS 2005 with WSS2.0 to Orcas with Remote WSS3.0

Please read http://blogs.msdn.com/sudhir/archive/2007/08/03/upgrade-tfs-2005-with-wss2-0-to-tfs-2008-orcas-with-existing-wss3-0-farm.aspx if you want to upgrade to existing WSS3.0 farm.

This topic is very similar to the previous topic(http://blogs.msdn.com/sudhir/archive/2007/05/31/upgrade-2005-with-wss2-0-to-orcas-wss3-0.aspx). The primary difference is how will you move to WSS3.0 on remote machine.

The steps remain same. In short

1. Run Orcas Installer to upgrade the VS 2005 TFS server to Orcas
2. Create your WSS 3.0 environment on remote machine. Migrate your TFS sites to new environment. You can find details on this topic at http://technet2.microsoft.com/windowsserver/WSS/en/library/91046a84-57a1-40cb-a32c-ff3395073dc91033.mspx?mfr=true.
3. Now you have Orcas TFS and Remote WSS3.0 setup. But you still have to link them up to work together.
4. You can do this by using TFSAdminUtil command. Following is the command to perform this task.

• TFSAdminUtil configureconnections
• /SharepointURI:http://wssserver:80 
• /SharepointSitesUri:http://<wssserver:80/sites
• /SharepointAdminUri:http://wssserver:adminport

/SharepointUnc:\\wssserver\sites