How to: Move Your Team Foundation Server from One Hardware Configuration to Another

Draft Documentation Update for Moving Team Foundation Server from One Hardware Configuration to Another

Visual Studio Team System User Education — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 22:31:42 GMT

We received word recently that the documentation for moving Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server

re: How to: Move Your Team Foundation Server from One Hardware Configuration to Another

Erwin van der Valk — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:51:32 GMT

I would add where possible a way to test if each step was succesful.

For instance, after configuring reporting services, browse to the url http://server/reports to see if the report server is responding properly. Same with Sharepoint and same with TFS itself. That way, if something goes wrong, you get feedback earlier.

re: How to: Move Your Team Foundation Server from One Hardware Configuration to Another

CVL — Sat, 31 May 2008 07:56:23 GMT

To save you all some time...it looks like you cannot migrate the data layer between two servers that are not in the same domain. The tfsadminutil renamedt <server> commands above seem to depend on being able to create a connection to the old server via a trusted relationship, which is unavailable in non-domain settings. Changing the connection string to use SQL Server authentication didn't help either. Finally, the requirement to have the old server around to accomplish this step leads to serious questions of failure tolerance. What if the old server died in flames? How do you recover then? The answer seems to be that you don't!

re: How to: Move Your Team Foundation Server from One Hardware Configuration to Another

Neil Deadman — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 17:43:22 GMT

I've followed this new procedure, however, I still have the same problem I got with the old document.

When I run the TfsAdminUtil RenameDT command I still get an error.

ERROR: TF55030: Rename Data Tier failed.

re: How to: Move Your Team Foundation Server from One Hardware Configuration to Another

Neil Deadman — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 18:26:07 GMT

Ok, found my mistake... maybe a little hasty in giving feedback!

Under the section "Rename the Data-Tier Server and Activate the Application-Tier Server" step 2 tells you to run the command 'TfsAdminUtil ConfigureConnections /view' when I looked back at this document I then must have looked at step 4 (optional) which also tells you to run 'TfsAdminUtil ConfigureConnections /view'.

Therefore I had not ran the 'TfsAdminUtil ConfigureConnections /ReportsUri:NewReports /ReportServerUri:NewReportServer' command.

re: How to: Move Your Team Foundation Server from One Hardware Configuration to Another

Sameer Dhoot — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 17:16:33 GMT

I intended to post the below comments on the main MSDN page but could not do so.

In section "Install Team Foundation Server and Prepare the New Hardware" at step # 3 the line "ReportServer or ReportServer$InstanceName" should be read as "ReportServer or ReportServer$InstanceName Application pool in IIS"

When we move the server to another hardware config and if the machine name has changes then in section "Rename the Data-Tier Server and Activate the Application-Tier Server" after the step # 8 we should also configure sharepoint to point to the new servers name following is the syntax

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

Also as mentioned by in comment above should be have proper server name like OLD server or NEW server.