Course Description
This course is designed for those who are responsible for the installation, configuration, and administration of Microsoft TFS 2017. This course teaches not only the technical know-how to successfully run your TFS infrastructure, but also best practices.
Agenda
At the completion of this course, attendees will be able to: Plan your TFS deployment and install TFS 2017 in a variety of topologies install, configure, and optimize the new Code, Search feature troubleshoot issues with Code Search, determine appropriate service accounts, plan a migration and/or upgrade to TFS 2017, understand the value of quarterly updates and how to install them, configure SMTP support and customize email alerts, install extensions from the Visual Studio Marketplace, keep your TFS data safe using backup and restore, monitor the health and performance of your TFS server, plan your 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 your teams’ 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, optimize build infrastructure to provide fast feedback to teams, configure a release management environment, manage configuration values in release management
Introducing the Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 family
- What’s new in Visual Studio 2017
Overview of the Visual Studio 2017 family
Overview of product features
A lap around Visual Studio Team Services
Project workflow across the Visual Studio 2017 suite of products
Planning a TFS 2017 Deployment
- Overview of TFS architecture
Planning a TFS deployment
Optimizing your Code Search deployment
An overview of product licensing
Installing TFS
- Installing and configuring TFS prerequisites
TFS 2017 installation
Integration with SharePoint
Upgrading to TFS 2017
- Overview of upgrade options
In-place vs migration-based upgrades
Performing your upgrade
Migration options from other version control providers
Managing TFS Instances
- Using the TFS Administration Console
Configuring SMTP support for TFS
TFS server health monitoring
Changing service accounts
Viewing installed updates
Managing and installing extensions from the Visual Studio Marketplace
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
Creating and Managing Team Projects
- Creating Team Projects
Understanding Team Project Collections
Creating Project Welcome pages
Renaming and deleting Team Projects
Configuring Team Project Level Security
- Overview of TFS security
Configuring security using standard groups
Understanding and configuring Teams
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
Source Control Configuration
- Setting project-wide source control settings
Understanding workspaces
Using the TFS command line utility
Using the TFS Rollback command
Using the TFS Proxy to improve performance
Backward compatibility using the MSSCCI provider
Work Items
- Overview of work items
Creating custom queries
Work item charting and pinning charts
Work item tagging
Configuring project alerts and notifications
Managing Process Templates
- Understanding process templates
Understanding inherited templates
Basics of template customization
Adding new fields to Work Item Types
Updating an upgraded Team Project
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
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
Release Management
- Overview of release management
Creating a release definition
Configuring environments
Managing configuration variables
Setting release retention policies
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.