Server and Notification URL
Generally, the Server URL and the Notification URL should not be modified. Both these values are TFS-system-wide. So, if multiple application-tiers exist, modifying either one of these values will impact them on all application-tiers
The Notification URL is the URL used in e-mail alerts. This should only change if
- The name of the computer changes
- TFS is installed behind a network load balancer. (In which case, the Notification URL should be the front end of the load balancer.)
- TFS is only accessible via SSL. (In which case, the Notification URL should be the fully-qualified-domain name)
- People external to the Notification URL's default value, https://computername:8080, in which case the Notification URL should be adjusted accordingly.
The Server URL is the URL TFS uses for communicating with itself. This should only be changed if
- TFS is only accessible via SSL. (In which case, the Server URL should be the fully-qualified-domain name)
- Localhost is disabled on the computer hosting TFS. (In which case, the Server URL should be https://computername:8080)
Comments
Anonymous
June 19, 2011
Is valid for both TFS2008 and TFS2010?Anonymous
March 22, 2012
The comment has been removedAnonymous
July 04, 2012
After updating bindings in IIS site, I have tried setting these up to use tfs.ourdomain.com but can only hit the tfs.ourdomain.com:8080/tfs/web sites on the actual server where tfs is installed. I updated webconfig to include new path to tfsServer also but this didn't help either. I've reversed these changes as I need a working tfs, but I need some advice as I need our tfs implementation to be available to remote workers.