I'm trying to migrate our existing TFS 2008/SharePoint installation to TFS 2012/SharePoint 2010. If I do it without SharePoint it all works OK, but if I try and include SharePoint it fails.
At the moment I'm starting from scratch and including SharePoint.
I've run the Configure Extensions for SharePoint Products Wizard, restored the TFS 2008 databases, run STSADM from the command line, and now I'm attempting to run the TFS 2012 Upgrade Wizard: it fails at the, Configure the Server Running SharePoint step with the error "TF250004: The SharePoint Products installation is either corrupt or is not valid. Verify that SharePoint Products is a supported version and is functioning properly, and then try again."
Can someone please advise me what I've done wrong?
It seems that your TFS server can't detect you SharePoint .
Where is your Sharepoint server, is it running on the same computer with TFS server or on another machine?
With your upgrade ,did you change your hardware or use the same hardware as before.
Accroding to your description, you didn't mention whether you need to upgrade your SharePoint. You should finish SharePoint upgrade before your TFS server upgrade.And match TFS upgrade requirements https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/dd631912(v=vs.120).aspx
You should also pay attention to your sharepoint permission.I suggest you use a "Full Permission" Account in sharepoint which interact with TFS .For your reference:http://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/sr/tfsadmin/thread/ea2ef379-dd14-4e23-86e6-fbc156e430d8
I eventually unchecked the "Configure SharePoint Products for Use with Team Foundation Server" option to exclude SharePoint during the upgrade and then manually configured SharePoint after the upgrade, overcoming a host of problems along the way.
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I have a client who has TFS 2010 and I need to setup my own installation on an Azure VM in order to do some testing, and help them migrate off of TFS 2010 to TFS 2015. However, I cant for the life of me seem to locate a setup .exe online for Team Foundation Server 2010. Is this still possible? Do I need a physical DVD?
The instructions here
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=24337
ask to use the physical DVD, but I dont have one.
According to this link https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/56343ed9-6c0c-4c17-89d1-62b4bb3cf645/visual-studio-team-foundation-server-2010-setup-downloadable-link?forum=tfsbuild
Its available for MSDN subscribers, but I dont see any TFS versions below 2015 on MSDN download page.
I have found the service pack 1 install, but not the setup for the full product. can anyone help me locate a setup exe online so that I can get this running? Thank you in advance.
Seems you are installing TFS 2010 to simulate some existing environment and test configuration changes. However, there is not any setup.exe for TFS 2010 in official site for now.
It's unsupported and 8 years old. There have been five major releases since then. We encourage users move to newly version of TFS server. Either back up the TFS2010 database and do the move directly or use some other machine with DVD to install the TFS2010 ISO image for a test.
We’re running TFS 2013 Update 1 and I’m planning an upgrade to TFS 2015 Update 1.
We have both SharePoint and Reporting Services installed and configured for TFS that I like to remove, because nobody ever uses them.
So, do I simply uncheck both Reporting and SharePoint during the TFS 2015 upgrade wizard. Is this the best way to do it?
Or, do I un-configure Sharepoint and Reporting Services first from our TFS 2013 installation? If so, what are the steps to do so?
Environment:
Server computer A:
Application tier for TFS 2013 Update 1
Data tier: SQL Server 2012 SP 1 for the TFS databases, and Reporting Services databases
Sharepoint services (only for TFS)
Server computer B:
SQL Server 2008 R2 hosting the SharePoint databases.
You can do either.
I'd probably uninstall/disable first if you're really sure you don't want them in the future (check with all the teams that they're not storing docs in SharePoint as they will lose them). That way the backup will be smaller/faster when you backup before you upgrade (Make sure you take a backup!!).
It's simple enough to do, just fire up the TFS Administration Console.
Select Reporting, Edit (this will stop the jobs) and uncheck "Use Reporting". Click OK.
For SharePoint, click SharePoint Web Applications and under the top section, click Modify against your server connection and choose Remove.
Make sure you take a new backup at this stage and then you can start the upgrade.
Some things to consider:
Are you sure you want to do this in-place? You could clone the server to new hardware and test the upgrade first or perform a migration upgrade. It means less downtime in the event of something going pear shaped.
If your collection(s) are large, this is likely going to take a long time. The 2015 upgrade seems to be slower than previous upgrades due to all the schema changes.
Are you sticking with a single server? That's fine, but you won't need server B for SharePoint so you could move to a dual server TFS install if capacity is a problem (You'd need to upgrade the SQL version on server B to act as a data tier though)
I'm a couple years late, but this still popped up in a search result so worth mentioning - use cmd prompt to do this:
Navigate to %programfiles%\Microsoft Team Foundation Server %#%\Tools\, and type TfsConfig.exe setup /uninstall:SharePointExtensions . This will "unconfigure" the feature in your App Tier.
I've been looking around TFS 2013 screenshots and I notice how it look like it's implemented over Sharepoint 2013...
So, when i install TFS 2013, do I get a full blown sharepoint (with central admin and everything), just a site collection (a "light" version of it) or none (meaning if, i want a web interface, i have point to my sharepoint and say "use that one")???
PS: Since i'm in a corporate environment i don't have a spare machine to just install it and check it for myself, and other documentation don't make this clear...
TFS has its own web-based interface (TFS Web Access) that isn't based on SharePoint. It also has the ability to integrate with SharePoint which will cause SP-based Project Portals to be created with every Team Project (this is in addition to TFS Web Access).
When you install TFS you can choose to have the TFS Install install/configure SharePoint Foundation, or you can point it to a pre-existing SP Foundation or Enterprise environment.
SharePoint Foundation 2013 can be installed with TFS, if you specify that in the installation.
Reference
SharePoint Products requirements for Team Foundation Server
We are currently using TFS 2010 and have a Team site of SharePoint 2007. We are currently not using the Team site (we tried out a few things but at the moment its no problem to just remove it).
But we want to use the Team site and thought that we might as well upgrade it to 2010 before starting to use it. Its probably easier to upgrade from a pretty clean install than doing it later.
So.. Is it best to upgrade our site.. or should we maybe install a new SharePoint 2010 on the side and then switch over to that?
Any suggestions on which approach i should take. What is easiest (I don't know if I need to install anything special for Team site than other SharePoint sites)
PS. I am a newbie when it comes to SharePoint but can get some more experienced help if needed.
Easiest way would be to install a new Sharepoint 2010 instance somewhere and point TFS to that. To set it up you need to install SP 2010, then install the SP TFS Extensions off the TFS Install DVD, then fire up TFS Admin console and use it to configure the SP site. More detailed instructions can be found here: http://blog.hinshelwood.com/integrate-sharepoint-2010-with-team-foundation-server-2010/
Once you've got it configured it will auto-create Team Portals for any new Team Projects. If you wish to create Portals for pre-existing Team Projects there is a manual step you need to take that is described here: http://blogs.msdn.com/b/greggboer/archive/2010/02/24/creating-sharepoint-portals-reports-and-upgrading-reports-for-an-existing-team-project.aspx
I've just tried out TFS 2010 today, along with Project 2010 and VS 2010. Only Later realized that without Sharepoint, TFS is only configured as Basic. This reduces it's functionality as oppose to what I've seen during VS2010 product launch. Sadly I can't find any alternative but to get a trial copy of Sharepoint to see if it serve my purpose. Well, apparently Sharepoint only comes with x64 edition. I'm not formatting any machine to x64 just to give this a try. So, after some reading up, I found that Project Server is actually based on Sharepoint. Now I wonder is whether TFS can be configure to connect to Project Server?
If it's possible, would the setting be much different that Sharepoint's?
And what am I missing from this setup as oppose to Sharepoint's?
Based on Sharepoint != Sharepoint. I think that Project Server is just a subset of Sharepoint functionality. Also, basing Project on Sharepoint allows for some really tight integration into your portal. To answer your question, I don't think you still will get your fully featured TFS without Sharepoint Proper.
FYI - Sharepoint 2007 (or 3.0 or whatever it is) is not x64 only, but will run on x86. TFS 2010 will go full feature on 2007
Sharepoint 2007 Trial
To answer what you are missing:
Reports
Project Portal
TFS Web Access
That's about it. You still get 90% of the features with your current deployment without SharePoint. Tommy is right about MOSS 2007, it comes in 32-bit and will give you all features. Project Server runs on top of SharePoint as a shared service provider. Traditionally MS releases a power toy to integrate TFS with Project Server. They said they would go over this at TechEd, which just happened about a week ago.
Also, I suspect the integration with Project Server 2010 will be better, but then you will have to run SharePoint 2010 :(
In my opinion, TFS has enough to run most projects by itself and you can use the client version of MS Project for critical path anaylsis, etc.
Use Windows Sharepoint Services for Windows 2003 & Windows 2008:
http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windowsserver/sharepoint/bb400747.aspx
For Windows Server 2008 sp2 and Windows Server R2, use SharePoint Foundation 2010:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=49c79a8a-4612-4e7d-a0b4-3bb429b46595&displaylang=en
Both are free.
I'm not formatting any machine to x64
just to give this a try.
Why not use VMWare Server, Hyper-V, Virtual Box or some other virtualization software to run the pre-made demo/trial/lab VHD's - no formatting, no installation, no setup, more hair.
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