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Customizing Team Foundation Server - Using Team Build to Deploy MSIs

I've gone ahead and recorded a 1.5 hour screencast going through and demonstrating how to build out a virtual environment with Wix and Team Deploy deploying onto 2 target virtual machines.

This screencast includes all of the details that you could need for setting up team deploy including:

  • Setup of a domain controller & domain accounts
  • Installing Team Foundation Server 2008
  • Setting up Team Build
  • Setting up 2 target machines
  • Setting up a new team project
  • WIX 3.0 setup
  • Team Build Setup
  • Configuration of Team Build
  • Configuration of Team Build TFSBuild.Proj with Team Deploy.

This video is very thorough and a bit long but has everything you need to get started.

Check it out over at: http://www.noblegroupinternational.com/content/alm/teamdeploy/TeamDeploy.html

Don't forget to use the table of contents button (to the left of the sound button) in the controls at the bottom of the player.

Quick note the last 5 minutes of the video are the most exciting (step 120: Check-in changes to kick off CI-Build) because I demonstrate everything working together and doing multiple deploys on Continuous Integration builds.

Feedback is welcome.

Update1: I've received several requests for a downloadable version of the presentation. Right click on this link and choose save as target to download a .wmv copy locally: Presentation Video Link

Update2: I've received a request for a copy of the powerpoint slides included in the presentation. Right click on this link and choose save as target to download (2007 .pptx file). PowerPoint Slides

Published Wednesday, September 16, 2009 1:54 PM by Ianceicys

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