Essentials of Administering Team Foundation Server 2015 Using TFS 2015 to Accelerate Your Software Development
This book covers the critical as well as the less obvious aspects of managing Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 in a variety of development and test environments. Coverage includes basic installation, initial configuration, maintenance, and common trouble shooting techniques, sizing, and perform...
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| Language: | English |
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Berkeley, CA
Apress L. P
2015
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| Edition: | 1 |
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| ISBN: | 9781484205723, 1484205723, 1484205715, 9781484205716, 148421787X, 9781484217870 |
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Table of Contents:
- Setting Up and Managing Team Project Collections -- Team Project Collections -- Manage Team Project Collections -- Creating a Collection -- Moving a Collection -- Collections with Reports -- Collections with SharePoint -- Splitting a Collection -- Summary -- Chapter 5: Managing Team Projects -- Team Projects Overview -- Team Project Boundaries -- Team Project Naming Conventions -- Setting up Team Projects -- Reporting Services Permissions to View or Create Reports -- SQL Server Database Roles for Report Authors and to Create Team Projects -- Check to Make Sure That You Are in the Project Collection Administrators Group -- SharePoint Permissions -- Team Project Security -- Pick a Process -- Source Control Choices -- Setting up a Team Project -- Summary -- Chapter 6: Managing Source Code and Work -- Working with Source Code: Workspaces -- Server or Local? -- Setting up the Workspace -- Adding a Solution/Project to a Team Project -- Checking In and Out -- Branching and Merging -- Branching -- Merging -- Managing Work -- Setting up a Team -- Summary -- Chapter 7: Maintaining Team Foundation Server -- Get Up to Date -- Disk Space -- Security! Microsoft Baseline Security Analyzer (MBSA) -- Antivirus -- IIS Process Exclusion -- SQL and SharePoint -- SQL Maintenance -- Backup -- Run DBCC CHECKDB -- Set PAGE_VERIFY=CHECKSUM -- SQL ERRORLOG Monitoring -- Backup -- Scheduled Backups Wizard -- Summary -- Chapter 8: Build Management -- Overview -- Setting up a Build Agent -- Scaling and Administering Team Foundation Build -- Starting/Restarting Build Agents -- Settings: Build Retention -- Security: Letting Others Help Manage the Builds -- Using Team Foundation Build -- Build Definitions: Creating and Queueing -- Summary -- Chapter 9: Testing with Team Foundation Server -- Do I Need Visual Studio for My Dedicated QA Team/Testers?
- Manual Test Planning, Creating, and Running -- Continuous Integration Testing -- Summary -- Chapter 10: Reporting and Other Features Worth Exploring -- SQL Reporting Services Reports -- SharePoint Dashboards -- Excel Reports -- Other TFS Features You Should Explore -- Lab Management -- Release Management -- ALM Virtual Machines -- Summary -- Index
- Intro -- Contents at a Glance -- Contents -- About the Author -- About the Technical Reviewer -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Planning for Team Foundation Server -- Before You Begin -- Team Foundation Server 2013 Editions -- TFS Architecture Overview -- Installation Considerations -- Basic Requirements -- Installation Checklist -- Accounts and Permissions -- Supported Operating System Requirements -- Performance and Planning -- Hardware -- Scaling Tips: One to Many -- SharePoint Requirements -- SQL Server Requirements -- SQL Server 2014 Performance -- TFS Express SQL Naming Requirement -- SQL Server High Availability Features Supported on Team Foundation Server -- No Touchy the TFS DB ! -- Active Directory -- Ports -- Language Requirements -- Summary -- Chapter 2: Installing Team Foundation Server -- Install Categories -- New Install -- Which Wizard to Use? -- Upgrades -- Prerequisites -- Upgrade Paths for TFS -- How About Upgrades from Older Releases? -- SQL Server -- The Trouble with SharePoint and SQL Reporting Services -- TFS Upgrade Scenarios -- Back Up! -- TFS Basic or Express Upgrades -- Standard Upgrade -- Advanced Upgrade -- Installation Experience -- SQL Reporting Services Configuration Manager -- Summary -- Chapter 3: Installation Validation and Security -- Installation Validation -- Validate Team Foundation Server URLs -- Validate TFS Services -- Installation Logs -- XAML Build Service -- System Requirements -- XAML Build Service Configuration -- Team Foundation Server Security -- Security Model -- Authentication -- Planning -- So What Do I Get by Default? -- Default Groups at the Team Project Level -- Securing Team Web Access: Access Levels -- Feature Break Down by Access Level -- Summary -- Chapter 4: Managing Collections -- Collections and Projects Overview -- What Are They? -- Collection Naming Convention