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