This newly expanded 4-day course is designed for team members who are responsible for the installation, configuration and administration of Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015. This course teaches not only the technical know-how to successfully run your TFS infrastructure but also best practises based on industry experience.
This course combines both technical presentations as well as hands-on lab exercises designed to ensure attendees gain a solid, practical understanding of how to administer TFS 2015 in modern work environments.
Key topics covered in this course include product installation, configuring security & permissions, reporting, customisation and build automation. We cover both the new Team Build as well as using legacy XAML build infrastructure.
Course Objectives:At the completion of this course, attendees will be able to:
- Plan a 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 customize email alerts
- Keep TFS data safe using backup and restore
- Monitor the health and performance of a TFS instance
- Plan 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
- Customize the process template to better suit the team’s 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
- Optimize 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 organization 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.
Modules:
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
