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.
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:
We started at 2:30am (GMT+1) on Saturday morning and we did it in 5 major steps:
We completed the migration at 9:15am (GMT+1) on Saturday morning so all in the migration took just less than 7 hours.
]( http://blog.hinshelwood.com/files/2011/05/GWB-WindowsLiveWriter-SSWGoLivewithVisualStudio2010Beta2_15047-image_2.png )Figure: Web Access – Working
]( 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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