TFS 2008
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TFS 2008
Here’s how we migrated our TFS 2008 to TFS 2010. This is not an in-place migration. What is generally recommended as upgrade path is to backup the TFS 2008 DBs, restore them in the new TFS data tier and then install TFS 2010. This will migrate all the projects at once. However, we wanted to keep the TFS 2008 environment running for a while, so this path did not do. We first set up a new machine (and a new domain, but that is a whole other story) with TFS 2010 and WSS 3.0. The database tier was on...
Lately I’ve been doing some tests on migrating our TFS 2008 installation to TFS 2010, coupled with a machine and domain change. One particular topic that was tricky is user accounts. We installed first a new machine with TFS 2010 and then migrated the projects in the old server. The work items were migrated with the projects. Great, but if I try to edit one of the old work items I cannot save it anymore because some fields contain old user names (ex. OLDDOMAIN\user) which are not known in the new...
One of my main tasks now that I'm back at work is to migrate our TFS from 2005 to 2008. Our main concern is with process templates. We went to quite a lot of trouble to create our own process template and we do not want to lose that work. I posted a question on MSDN forums about customized process templates migration without much success. So, I decided to dive in on our test environment and see what happens. Test procedure: Prepare a test machine with Windows Server 2003, TFS2005, VisualStudio 2008...