Team Foundation Server Administration
Team Foundation Server Administration
Part II: TFS Build Administration
About the Book
Team Foundation Server (TFS) is one of the widely used ALM suites from Microsoft. TFS suite includes different components to address the ALM features like Application tier, data store, build services, and so on. TFS Administration requires knowledge in all these components and how it can be configured and integrated together. Administration topics are divided into four small books. This will be the second book in this series.
Part I: TFS Installation & Configuration and TFS Administration Console
Chapter 1: Introduction, discusses about the TFS architecture and how the various components are bound together.
Chapter 2: TFS Installation and Configuration, discusses step by step installation and configuration of TFS server.
Chapter 3: TFS Admin Console explains the TFS Admin Console component and its features like project collection management, database management, build components, and integrations.
Part I available in
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LeanPub at
Part II: Build Administration
Chapter 1: Introduction, discusses about the TFS architecture and how the various components are bound together.
Chapter 2: Build Administration, provides the end to end build administration. This chapter covers XAML based build setup for TFS 2013 and older versions and new web based build setup for TFS 2015. This chapter also covers major build automation scenarios.
Part II available in
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Amazon at
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LeanPub at
Part III: Access Management and Security
Chapter 1: Access Management, explains more about the end to end access management starting from TFS server level till the work item field level. This chapter provides details on how to control the permissions at each component level.
Part IV: Warehouse services & Reporting and Command line tools
Chapter 1: Warehouse Services & Reporting, discusses about different warehouse services and the reporting.
Chapter 2: TFS Command line Tools, explains different command line tools used by administrators along with the scenarios.
Appendix: Discuss miscellaneous items like configuration of external integrations, common challenges and solutions, and so on.
Topics are explained using appropriate scenarios and screen shots.
Table of Contents
- ©Copyright 2015
- About the Author
- Preface
- What this book covers
- Target Audience
- Environment
- Feedback
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Team Foundation Server Overview
- TFS Terminologies & Key Elements
- Components of Team Foundation Server
- Logical Components
- Deployment Architecture
- TFS Project Structure
- TFS Clients
- Summary
- Team Foundation Server Overview
- Build Administration
- Build Server Setup for TFS 2013 and older versions
- Build Server Deployment Topologies
- Build Controller Configuration
- Build Agent Configuration
- XAML Build Configuration – TFS 2015
- XMAL Build Process Parameters
- TF Version Control
- Build
- Test
- Publish Symbols
- Advanced
- Web based Build - TFS 2015
- Features
- Agent Configuration
- Create Build Definition
- Queue New Build
- Build Definition Parameters
- Build Server Setup for TFS 2013 and older versions
- Scenarios
- Scenario 1: Continuous Integration from TFS
- Build Definition
- Queue New Build
- Build Completion Report
- Continuous Integration Verification
- Build Explorer
- Team Web Access (TWA) – Build Features
- Scenario 2: Continuous Integration to VSO
- Build Definition
- New Build and Report
- Scenario 3: Continuous Integration using Web based Build (yet to complete)
- Scenario 4: Continuous Delivery to Azure using Web based Build (yet to complete)
- Summary (yet to complete)
- Scenario 1: Continuous Integration from TFS
- Appendix (yet to complete)
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