Jason Barile - Microsoft in Raleigh, NC : Roundup: Tips For Improving TFS 2008 SP1 Performance

Roundup: Tips For Improving TFS 2008 SP1 Performance

From time to time, I get questions from customers on how to diagnose performance issues with their TFS 2008 SP1 servers and how to improve performance. Here’s a set of blog posts I refer to frequently, now rounded up into one convenient place:

General TFS Performance

TFS Performance. Episode 1 - The Phantom Baseline - a post from the TFS Global Support Team on how to establish a baseline for performance of your Team Foundation Server
TFS Performance Tips & Tricks – Part One – general TFS performance tips from the TFS Global Support Team
TFS Performance Tips & Tricks – Part Two – more TFS performance tips from the TFS Global Support Team
TFS Performance & Excel 2007 Heat Map – Grant Holliday on using Excel to monitor day-to-day performance of TFS
Announcing TFS Performance Report Pack – Some great reports from Grant that will help you monitor TFS performance
Monitoring Team Foundation Server (MSDN) – A collection of articles on MSDN about how to monitor performance of your Team Foundation Server
Download TFS 2008 SP1 – We made a lot of performance and scale improvements in SP1, so if you’re not using it yet, what are you waiting for?

Version Control

Walkthrough: Setting up a Remote Office with Team Foundation Server (MSDN) – How to install and configure the TFS proxy to improve version control performance at remote sites (or even just distribute TFS load across multiple teams)

Team Build

TargetsNotLogged Hotfix Available (Aaron Hallberg) – A hotfix to improve the performance of some Team Builds
Configuring the build to use the version control proxy (Buck Hodges) – Helpful if you have a Team Build server running at a remote site

Work Item Tracking

Filtering WIT Client Meta-data (Martin Woodward) – how to reduce the amount of meta-data that flows between TFS and Team Explorer

Published Wednesday, September 02, 2009 5:47 AM by JasonBa

Filed under: Visual Studio Team Foundation Server

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