Gaffer-Tape Engineering : TFS Admin

Team Development with TFS Guide

Jason Neave — Fri, 11 Jan 2008 19:22:00 GMT

Came across this very lengthy, detailed guide on Team Development With TFS and thought I would share it with the class...

http://www.codeplex.com/TFSGuide

A remarkable amount of information in the guide, enough that I haven't read enough to give a brief review! Download it for free and see for yourselves.

Jason

Team Foundation Server Administration Tool

Jason Neave — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 20:37:00 GMT

Found a nice little tool on CodePlex that I will be looking at further as this project continues;

Team Foundation Server Administration Tool
http://www.codeplex.com/TFSAdmin

It's a nice little app that allows you to see all of the users on each of your Team Projects and alter there permissions for Sharepoint, Reporting Services and TFS as a whole. If you do something it isn't expecting it will crash out though as the changes you make aren't live it is more an irritation than the end of the world. It is however community driven so if you do come across any issues you can get the help out by fixing said issue, something I will be looking into myself and I would encourage others to do so as well.

Jason

Team Foundation Server Admin Project

Jason Neave — Thu, 20 Dec 2007 01:04:00 GMT

A lot of the problems I come across, and this wont be a surprise to anyone who has had to do it, are installation problems. As such when I was recently approached to host a TFS instance for an internal project I litteraly agreed to do it. I was going to say jumped at the chance though it wasn't like I was invited to the Oscar's, but I digress...

One area in which I am lacking experience is with day to day administrative tasks relating to TFS, information my customers take for granted I simply have not had to use. To that end I think this will be a worthwhile experience and so that I don't forget said experiences prepare to be amazed and bedazzled with the upcoming series of posts relating to the subject. Enthralling, I know. ;)

All joking aside, after setting up the new team project (Agile) on my TFS instance and taking time to read through the 15 work items created automatically I was impressed by the level of detail in each. For those who haven't performed this task they list such humdrum, yet important, tasks such as setting up permissions for users, adding check-in policies and even creating a mission statement for the project is quite impressive. As someone who hasn't been involved in a develoment project since University it is nice to see how it can be done properly, though time will tell.

More, after the break.
Jason