Administer Team Foundation Server

Administrators of an on-premises deployment of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) install, configure, and maintain the deployment. They are tasked with supporting teams to have access to the resources to do their work. This includes managing permissions and access to servers, backing up and restoring data, and maintaining the security of the deployment.

Get started

If you’re new to managing TFS, you can get a server up and running with these four steps.

Set up TFS on a server

Create a team project to manage code and track work

Add team members to the team project so they can start working

Configure a backup schedule and plan to protect loss of data

Administer TFS users, groups, application-tiers, and databases

	Manage users or groups in TFS Add users to team projects Change access levels Restrict access to functions and tasks Set administrator permissions for team project collections Set administrator permissions for Team Foundation Server
	Configure and manage TFS resources Configure an SMTP server to support alerts and feedback requests Change cache settings for an application-tier server Manage team project collections Stop and start services, application pools, and websites Add SharePoint products to your deployment Support rollup of work and other fields Scale your deployment Move a team project collection Split a team project collection Move or clone Team Foundation Server (hardware move) Move Team Foundation Server from one environment to another
	Manage TFS reports, data warehouse, and analysis services cube Add reports to a team project Manually process the TFS data warehouse and analysis services cube Rebuild the TFS data warehouse and cube
	Back up and restore TFS Configure a backup schedule and plan Understand backing up Team Foundation Server Manually back up Team Foundation Server Restore an application-tier server Restore data to the same location Restore a deployment to new hardware Refresh the data caches on client computers
	Technical Reference for Team Foundation Compatibility between Team Foundation clients and Team Foundation Server Architecture reference Permission reference for Team Foundation Server Command-line tools for TFS Work item field and database schema reference XML element reference Extending Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management

Administer build, test, and lab systems

	Configure and manage your build system Deploy and configure a build server Deploy and configure a build controller Deploy and configure build agents Scale out your build system Manage your build system
	Setting Up Test Machines to Run Tests or Collect Data Configure and administer Lab Management Configure Lab Management for SCVMM environments Planning Your Lab Security for test controllers and test agents

Additional Resources

• TFS installation guide

  • Install TFS

  • Upgrade TFS

  • Configure features after an upgrade

  • Upgrade from Visual SourceSafe

• TFS Administration forum

• Visual Studio ALM Rangers Solutions and Projects

• Team Foundation Server Blog

• Technical Articles for Visual Studio Application Lifecycle Management

• Agile Development Showcase

• TFS on CodePlex

See Also

Concepts

Track work with Visual Studio ALM and TFS

What's new for Application Lifecycle Management in Visual Studio 2013