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Hosted Team Foundation Server

Explore the challenges of Hosted Team Foundation Server and discover solutions for project partitioning. Learn about TFS Now and upcoming improvements!

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I have posted  about Hosted Team Foundation server before and I have had a few discussions with Jon Pratt  from the Microsoft UK Development Tools Team   on the subject. The issue with Hosted TFS  is that there is no real partitioning of projects within the system and thus if you had two clients on the same server they would be able to view each others data.

I even asked a question  on LinkedIn and got an amazing response.

You may think that this is an oversight, but TFS was not really designed for the hosted environment. The problem is that in my company we would need to keep different areas of the business separate. This requires separate instances of Team Foundation Server for this to work.

There are changes coming in Orcas that will help with this and ones in Rosario that should solve the problems and allow proper hosting.

At this time there is only one commercial hosted team server called TFS Now  that has been blogged about by Jeff Beehler  and Brian Harry  last month.

Check out TFS Now 

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