At the completion of this course, attendees will be able to:
- Plan your TFS deployment and install TFS 2018 in a variety of topologies
- Determine appropriate service accounts
- Plan a migration and/or upgrade to TFS 2018
- Understand the value of quarterly updates and how to install them
- Install, configure, and optimize the Code Search feature
- Troubleshoot issues with Code Search
- Configure SMTP support and customise email alerts
- Install extensions from the Visual Studio Marketplace
- Keep your TFS data safe using backup and restore
- Monitor the health and performance of your TFS server
- 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
- Optimise build infrastructure to provide fast feedback to teams
- Configure a release management environment
- Manage configuration values in release management
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.
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.
Modules
Module 1 – Introducing the Microsoft Visual Studio family
- What’s new in Visual Studio
- Overview of the Visual Studio family
- Overview of product features
- A lap around Visual Studio Team Services
- Project workflow across the Visual Studio suite of products
Module 2 – Planning a TFS 2018 Deployment
- Overview of TFS architecture
- Planning a TFS deployment
- An overview of product licensing
- SharePoint and Project Server integration
Module 3 – Installing TFS
- Installing and configuring TFS prerequisites
- TFS installation
- Installing Code Search
- Optimising your Code Search deployment
Module 4 – Upgrading to TFS 2018
- Understanding upgrades and updates
- In-place vs migration-based upgrades
- Performing your upgrade
Module 5 – Managing TFS Instances
- Using the TFS Administration Console
- Configuring SMTP support for TFS
- 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
- Planning your projects and collections
- Creating Team Project Collections
- Creating Team Projects
- 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
- Setting user access levels for your server
- 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
- 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 TFS command line utility
- Using the TFS Rollback command
- Using the TFS Proxy to improve performance
- Backward compatibility using the MSSCCI provider
Module 11 – Installing and managing extensions
- Introducing the Visual Studio Marketplace
- Installing extensions from the Marketplace
- Managing extension requests
- Paid extensions and understanding billing
Module 12 – Work Items
- Overview of work items
- Creating custom queries
- Work item charting and pinning charts
- Work item tagging
- Configuring and managing notifications
Module 13 – Managing Process Templates
- Understanding process templates
- Basics of template customisation
- Adding new fields to Work Item Types
- Updating forms for new and legacy clients
- Updating an upgraded Team Project
Module 14 – 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 15 – Configuring build and release infrastructure
- Overview of build and release infrastructure
- Creating agent pools and queues
- Installing and configuring agents
- Scaling your agent pool infrastructure
- Overview of non-Windows agents
