At the completion of this course, attendees will be able to:
- Plan your TFS deployment and install TFS 2015 in a variety of topologies
- Determine appropriate service accounts
- Plan a migration and/or upgrade to TFS 2015
- Understand the value of quarterly updates and how to install them
- Configure SMTP support and customise email alerts
- Keep your TFS data safe using backup and restore
- Monitor the health and performance of your TFS instance
- Plan your project hierarchies using Team Projects and Team Project Collections
- Create, modify, rename and delete Team Projects and Team Project Collections
- Configure standard role based security for team projects
- Use advanced security to manage fine grained security
- Configure version control settings including backward compatibility
- Customise the process template to better suit your teams’ requirements
- Understand the reporting infrastructure and create custom Excel reports
- Configure Data warehouse and OLAP cube refresh and rebuilds
- Plan, install and manage the new build environments introduced in 2015
- Optimise build infrastructure to provide fast feedback to teams
- Install and configure build infrastructure for legacy XAML builds (pre-2015 builds)
Audience
This course is designed for administrators and software development professionals responsible for the day to day administration and operation of a Team Foundation Server. Every organisation using TFS should have at least one or two “TFS champions” who are skilled in the topics and areas covered in this course.
This course is also ideal preparation of Microsoft’s 70-496 exam which is part of the MCSD: Application Lifecycle Management certification.
Pre-requisites
Attendees should have some familiarity with installations of server products such as operating systems, SQL server, etc. Some experience using Visual Studio would also be beneficial.
COURSE OUTLINE
Module 1: Introducing the Microsoft Visual Studio 2015 family
- What’s new in Visual Studio 2015
- Overview of the Visual Studio 2015 family
- Overview of product features
- A lap around Visual Studio Team Services
- Project workflow across the Visual Studio 2015 suite of products
Module 2: Planning a TFS 2015 deployment
- Overview of TFS architecture
- Planning a TFS Deployment
- An overview of product licensing
Module 3: Installing TFS
- Installing and configuring TFS prerequisites
- TFS 2015 Installation
- Integration with SharePoint
Module 4: Upgrading to TFS 2015
- Overview of upgrade options
- In-place vs migration based upgrades
- Performing your upgrade
- Migration options from other version control providers
Module 5: Managing TFS instances
- Using the TFS Administration Console
- Configuring SMTP support for TFS
- Customising email alerts
- TFS Server health monitoring
- Changing service accounts
- Viewing installed updates
Module 6: TFS Backup and Restore
- TFS Backup and Restore strategies
- Understanding the TFS databases
- Creating a backup schedule
- The restore process
- Refreshing the client data cache
Module 7: Creating and managing Team Projects
- Creating Team Projects
- Understanding Team Project Collections
- Creating Project Welcome pages
- Renaming and deleting Team Projects
Module 8: Configuring Team Project level Security
- Overview of TFS security
- Configuring security using standard groups
- Understanding and configuring Teams
Module 9: Advanced Security and Permissions
- Fine-grain security options
- TFS Server level permissions
- Setting permissions at the Team Project Collection level
- Setting Web Access permissions
- Restricting access in TFS
- Using command line tools for managing security
Module 10: Source Control Configuration
- Setting project wide source control settings
- Understanding workspaces
- Using the TF command line utility
- Using the TFS Rollback command
- Using the TFS Proxy to improve performance
- Backward compatibility using the MSSCCI provider
Module 11: Work Items
- Overview of Work Items
- Traceability between work items
- Creating custom queries
- Work item charting and pinning charts
- Work item tagging
- Configuring project alerts and notifications
Module 12: Managing Process Templates
- Understanding process templates
- Basics of template customisation
- Adding new fields to Work Item Types
- Adding new Work Item Types
- Adding new queries and reports
- Updating an upgraded Team Project
Module 13: Reporting
- Understanding the Reporting Architecture
- Adding new reports
- Creating ad-hoc reports using Excel
- TFS Warehouse and OLAP Cube overview
- Changing the Data Warehouse and Analysis Services Cube processing frequency
- Rebuild the Data Warehouse and Analysis Services Cube
Module 14: Build Automation
- Overview of build infrastructure
- Installing and configuring Build Agents
- Scaling your build infrastructure
- Overview of hosted build services
- Overview of non-Windows Build Agents
Module 15: Supporting legacy XAML builds
- Overview of legacy build infrastructure
- Installing and configuring the Build Agents and Controllers
- How to scale your legacy build infrastructure
