I have Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2008 installed on my company since tree years. I installed TFS 2010 and I want to migrate the version control from 2008 to 2010.
I tried to use Team Foundation Server Integration Tools (March 2011 Release) but I've got an error/conflict when I tried to migrate:
The target server http://tfs2008:8080/
is not a TFS2010 server
I don't know why it says target and not source even I've putted it (tfs 2008) on the left source!!
Can anyone any idea what's going on?
Thank you and Kind Regards.
I was able to migrate from the tfs 2008 server, I ran the TFS integration tool from 2008 and it worked.
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One of our client wants to move from TFS 2013 to TFS 2018. We don't have much information about the current TFS setup at client's end.
Can anyone please guide with what questions we need to ask to client to get the information regarding the current TFS system setup before we start with upgrade process.
Also share if there is any process document regarding upgrading the TFS 2013 to TFS 2018.
Thanks in advance.
You need to confirm the real requirements first, need to upgrade or migrate?
Check if the current device, OS and software match the Requirements and compatibility for the upgrade/migration :
Client operating systems:
TFS 2018 Windows 10 (Professional,Enterprise) Version 1607 or greater
TFS 2013 Windows 8.1 (Basic, Professional, Enterprise) Windows 7
(minimum SP1) (Home Premium, Professional, Enterprise, Ultimate)
SQL Server:
TFS 2013 Update 4 - SQL Server 2014 or SQL Server 2012 (minimum SP1)
TFS 2018 - SQL Server 2017 or SQL Server 2016 (minimum SP1)
Upgrade is a full data transfer. You will have all data in the previous TFS.
As TFS 2018 only supports SQL Server 2017 and SQL Server 2016 (minimum SP1), upgrade SQL Server is necessary.
You need to go through article Upgrade your deployment to the latest version of TFS before doing upgrade. And follow the steps in article Upgrade scenario walkthrough for Team Foundation Server to upgrade your TFS. Summarize the steps here:
Prepare your environment. The first step is to check the system
requirements for TFS 2018. Upgrade SQL Server is necessary for your
scenario. Including SQL Server, you also need to check other system
requirements and prepare the environment.
Expect the best, prepare for the worst. You must have a complete and
consistent set of database backups in case something goes wrong.
Do the upgrade. Once the preparation is done, you'll need to install
the new version of TFS to get new binaries, and then run through the
upgrade wizard to upgrade your databases.
Configure new features. Depending on what version you upgraded from,
you may need to configure each team project to gain access to some
of the new features made available.
Below threads for your reference:
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/rob/2016/12/22/upgrading-from-tfs-2013-to-tfs-2017/
TFS 2012 to TFS 2018 Migration/Upgrade Path
when running windows 8.1 I had the windows explorer extension that allowed TFS 2013 integration.
After an upgrade to Windows 10 that has "made off" as the police would like to say.
Has anyone got this working and if they have what did they do?
Beginning with Visual Studio 2017, a new extension called Microsoft Team Foundation Version Control Windows Shell Extension has been published to the Visual Studio Marketplace.
The description says:
This release requires a computer with Visual Studio 2017 and all of the Visual Studio system requirements. It supports all TFS Server versions that are supported by Visual Studio 2017:
Team Foundation Server 2018
Team Foundation Server 2017
Team Foundation Server 2015
Team Foundation Server 2013
Team Foundation Server 2012
Team Foundation Server 2010 SP1
Visual Studio Team Services
I have finally got to the bottom of this. It turns out that you dont match the power tools to teh TFS version (even though they are TFS power tools), you match them to the Visual Studio version regardless of the TFS version.
So in my case I have visual studio 2015 and TFS 2013. I need to install the power tools for TFS 2015.
Thanks for your help everyone
Dave is correct that, you need to install TFS 2013 Power Tool to use Windows Shell Extension.
Then you can get the extension in a local folder which is in a TFVC mapped workspace folder.
I want to migrate all the source code from a TFS 2008 server to a new installation of TFS 2010. There are no work items, reports or portal to migrate, only source code. We want to move to a new process template and don't want to make an upgrade of the template used in TFS 2008 projects. Are there any good tools to only migrate source code? I've done some tests with TimelyMigrations TfsToTfs but they don't seem to work well when migrating a lot of source code.
Has anyone tried to use Team Foundation Server Integration Tool? I suppose you need to upgrade the TFS 2008 to TFS 2010 before you are able to move the source code to a new TPC/TP with the process template we want to use (with fresh portal and reports). Is this correct?
I have been looking for a way to migrate and upgrade our TFS 2008 server to 2010 server preferably without losing any data.
I have been looking at the TFS Integration Platform
http://tfsintegration.codeplex.com/
and also Visual Studio 2010 TFS Upgrade Guide
vs2010upgradeguide.codeplex.com
Looking at the document TFS Integration Platform - Migration Guidance.xps using the first link, it seems to suggest that I could preserve all the data by first migrating the TFS 2008 from one server to the other and then upgrade the TFS 2008 to 2010.
Is this true?
Thank you,
Chen
Chen - We just went through this process a few weeks ago. While it's not a trivial matter it can be done. There is actually specific guidance for an upgrade with migration to new hardware in the TFS Install Guide. Take a look at the Scenario: Upgrading Team Foundation Server section and the sub-section named Checklist: In-Place or Migration Upgrade on One or More Servers.
The most challenging part of the exercise for us was the SharePoint setup/configuration, but if you follow the guide closely it should go fairly smoothly. This post may help with the SharePoint piece.
If the database is on its own box then you first need to upgrade to SQL 2008. Once that is done you can install TFS 2010 on a new server, select upgrade during the install and point it to the database server.
If the database is on the same box as TFS 2008 then you first need to backup all the databases and restore them on to the new box with SQL 2008. Then install TFS 2010, choose upgrade during the install and point it to the database server.
It should be. Migration of 2008 from one server to another is primarily a database exercise, but it can get tricky when you are initializing the Application Tier.
To be honest, I thought the TFS Integration Platform migration was providing guidance around moving from TFS 2005 to TFS 2008. My understanding was that TFS 2010 has an upgrade feature included in the wizard that should take care of most things for you. Thus far, I've only installed TFS 2008 from scratch and TFS 2010 from scratch-- I haven't yet tried that part of the wizard.
Another consideration is the database platform for your TFS 2008 instance. In our case, our 2008 is installed on MS SQL Server 2005, and TFS 2010 requires SQL Server 2008, so that's going to make our upgrade potentially a bit trickier.
My team is moving to TFS 2010, but all of our old projects are from our stand alone VS 2005 and VS 2008. We did not have Team Server. Can put our projects under source control in TFS 2010 without upgrading and migrating them?
If you don't want your VS 2005/2008 projects upgraded (most likely VS 2010 will only touch the solution file), then you can install
this for VS 2005 (allows you to connect to TFS 2010 from VS 2005)
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/979258?p=1
this for VS 2008
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?displaylang=en&FamilyID=cf13ea45-d17b-4edc-8e6c-6c5b208ec54d
No, you need to migrate them using VSSConverter. Another option is to simply keep the old VSS2005 in play and switch Source Control as necessary in VS.