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Deploying Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Beta 2 - Done

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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:

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

  1. Backed up TFS 2008 databases (Some 14GB of data)
  2. Restored databases to new 64 bit server
  3. Installed TFS 2010 Beta 2 64 bit
  4. Run the Upgrade of 2008 data to 2010 Beta 2
  5. 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.

[ Deploying Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Beta 2 - Done

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

[ Deploying Visual Studio 2010 Team Foundation Server Beta 2 - Done

]( 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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