Wednesday, December 1, 2010

Team Project Collections, the theory and the Best Practices


A. How to use a Team Project Collection
1. Here is the official MSDN theory : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd236915.aspx

2. Here are some explanations :
  a. From the MSDN :
      http://blogs.msdn.com/b/slange/archive/2010/06/04/thoughts-on-tfs-project-collections.aspx

  b. From Brian Harry
      http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2009/04/19/team-foundation-server-2010-key-concepts.aspx

3. Here are some Lesson Learned and Best Practices,
 a. A Great !! Webcast that tells us not to create many Team Project Collections, issued from the TechEd Europ 2010, 2 weeks ago, by Neno Loje (MVP Visual Studio ALM)
      http://www.msteched.com/2010/Europe/DPR203 and the Slides (or I backed it up here)

b. ALM Ranger Best practices guides : http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/vstudio/ee358786.aspx
(including Visual Studio TFS Branching Guide 2010 on CodePlex : http://tfsbranchingguideiii.codeplex.com/)

c. An "old" White Paper from Mario Rodriguez (2009.11.05) : http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tfsao/archive/2009/11/05/scaling-tfs-2010-beta-2.aspx

B. How to migrate them from TFS 2008 to TFS 2010 ??



C. More info, and free training courseshttp://vs2010.learndevnow.com/default.aspx?src=SN1001D

1 comment:

  1. Four years later, I've just found this. Still relevant, still useful! I'm setting up TFS Express and I was wondering how to make best use of Team Project Collections. This tells me what I need, so a big thank you for a useful blog post.

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