Hosted Team Foundation Server

Since the Readify TFSNow! hosted TFS offering that I helped to build is no longer in operation, people have asked if there is anybody else doing it.

There are three partners that I know of that offer to run and maintain Team Foundation Server in the cloud for you:

I don’t have any experience with any of them, so please let me know what you think.

Published 02 December 08 06:56 by grantholliday

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# Rory Primrose said on December 2, 2008 10:46 PM:

Overall, CodePlex is great, but does come with restrictions. There isn't any team build or checkin policies and you can't change the work item templates.

My only other gripe with it is that is having to enter the username and password each time a new connection is made to the server (usually just once per IDE session per CodePlex server).

# Rob Hofker said on December 23, 2008 2:55 AM:

Hi Grant, I am involved right now in setting up an online TFS implementation that we have in alpha testing now and we will move to beta pretty soon.

Our implementation is close to those (once) offered by Readify and Phase2.

We have dedicated servers for each customer with conection over VPN. And we have added a portal for the customer to make some tasks like user / rights management a lot easier.

Keep an eye on http://online-tfs.com for any developments.

# Jason Townsend said on January 20, 2009 9:35 PM:

I got a chance to use http://www.saasmadeeasy.com at the WeAreMicrosoft event in Dallas, TX this year.  I gotta say I was really impressed with the stability and all the features we had available.  Their support was also top notch.  Even given some of the network issues that occur when you have 100+ developers rushing into the same network, streaming music, surfing the web, and working with web hosted source control their system worked effortlessly.  For a small company not wanting to host and support the hardware/software needed for TFS, I would recommend Saas Made Easy to them.  They also seem to be the lowest price right now.

# Catherine Sea said on June 29, 2009 5:36 AM:

I recommend SCM Anywhere Hosted, which is delivered as a SaaS application and comes with fully integrated version control, issue tracking, build automation and professional service to manage your whole software development life cycle.

You can sign up for a free plan and have a try:

http://www.scmsoftwareconfigurationmanagement.com/Products/SCMHosted_Plan.aspx

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Grant Holliday

I'm a former Team System MVP who relocated from Australia to Redmond, Seattle.

I'm working on the team that supports and promotes TFS for Microsoft's internal customers.

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