Deploying Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Beta 2 - Done

TL;DR; Covers the step-by-step process and team effort involved in migrating from TFS 2008 to Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Beta 2, including key lessons learned.

Published on 25 October 2009

Written by Martin Hinshelwood

2 minute read

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Well, nothing like hitting the ground running, my first job at SSW was to join the TFS Migration Team, it was a fun experience, let me tell you how it went.

Update #1 20th January 2010: Have a look at our Rules to better TFS2010 Migration

Adam put a few guys together:

Adam Cogan (Australia) – The team lead who checks everything and makes us follow the rules to better TFS .
Eric Phan (Australia) – Created an excellent “Rules to a successful migration from TFS 2008 to TFS 2010 guide”
Justin King (Australia) – Justin seems to play the part of devil’s advocate. I looked him up in the company directory and he is a previous employee…I guess you never really leave SSW.
Me (Scotland) – The implementer
Allan Zhou (Beijing) – My co-conspirator for the implementation

We started at 2:30am (GMT+1) on Saturday morning and we did it in 5 major steps:

Backed up TFS 2008 databases (Some 14GB of data)
Restored databases to new 64 bit server
Installed TFS 2010 Beta 2 64 bit
Run the Upgrade of 2008 data to 2010 Beta 2
Tested the deployment

We completed the migration at 9:15am (GMT+1) on Saturday morning so all in the migration took just less than 7 hours.

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]( http://blog.hinshelwood.com/files/2011/05/GWB-WindowsLiveWriter-SSWGoLivewithVisualStudio2010Beta2_15047-image_2.png )Figure: Web Access – Working

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]( http://blog.hinshelwood.com/files/2011/05/GWB-WindowsLiveWriter-SSWGoLivewithVisualStudio2010Beta2_15047-VS2010_2.png )Figure: Visual Studio - Working

Well done to the SSW team.

Well done also to the guys involved in the TFS team, the same migration from TFS 2005 to TFS 2008 was a much more painful experience taking days of work, but the guys from SSW made this process easy and straight forward…Preparation does that for a project…

A possible claim to fame: In addition we might have been the first company (SSW is a company of 52 employees and contractors) to migrate. So far I have not seen any blog posts about other companies migrating everything over to Beta 2. I am a TFS MVP and no-one on that list has posted about a migration yet (I can just imagine Justin King having another fit when he finds that out).

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