1. Read and follow each and every step mentioned in Microsoft Visual Studio® 2005 Team Foundation Server Installation Guide. This guide is available in Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 Refresh DVD in the following location
<DVDDrive> \docs\default.htm
Following are the pre-requisite for installing foundation server. Details about each pre-requisite are explained in the Installation Guide.
· The prerequisites for the database tier computer:
a. Install Windows Server 2003 Enterprise or Standard Edition.
b. Install Internet Information Services.
c. Install SQL Server 2005 Beta 2.
· The prerequisites for the application tier computer:
a. Install Windows Server 2003 Enterprise or Standard Edition.
b. Create a user account for the Team Foundation Server application pool identity.
c. Install Internet Information Services and enable ASP.NET.
d. Install Windows SharePoint Services.
e. Install Active Directory Application Mode (ADAM).
f. Install .NET Framework 2.0 Beta
- Don’t have Database tier and Application tier in same machine. Due to incompatibilities between the builds of .NET 2.0 used by Microsoft SQL Server 2005 Beta 2 and this particular CTP release of Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation, these products must be installed on separate computers. For more details refer this link, http://blogs.msdn.com/askburton/archive/2004/09/01/224397.aspx
- You can have Database server and Application server in Virtual Machines. VSTS Foundation Server will work in Virtual Machines. But this is not support by Microsoft. For more details refer this link,
http://blogs.msdn.com/askburton/archive/2004/09/01/224474.aspx
- Don’t Install Visual Studio foundation server on top of VS.NET 2005 Beta1. For more details refer this link, http://blogs.msdn.com/askburton/archive/2004/09/01/224392.aspx
If you face any problems in uninstalling VS.NET 2005 Beta 1 in your application tier, then refer this link.
http://samgentile.com/blog/archive/2004/09/03/12187.aspx
- Don’t run Application tier and Database tier under Local Machine Administrator account. Before you start the foundation server installation, verify both database tier and Application tier runs under domain account which is the administrator of both the machines.
- If the installation fails and you want to install it again in the same setup. You need to remove the databases added by previous installation setup and delete the VSTS folder (c:\VSTS) created by setup in database tier. Though the installation rollbacks after any problem, it won’t clean up the database tier. Database added during Foundation Server Installation are BISDB, BISDWDB, CurrituckDB, ELEadDB, pssshared, VSSTeamSCC and VSSTEAMSCCAdmin.
- If Installation rollbacks, it will give you the error number and description. Sometimes you might not get any error message, but the setup will rollback. To find out exactly what is the error, you need to check the log file of VSTS Installation. The log file is created in the following location,
C:\Documents and Settings\<username>\Local Settings\Temp\dtEntServer***.txt
- If you get any one of the following error message during installation,
Then check out this link for solution.
http://blogs.msdn.com/askburton/archive/2004/09/03/225386.aspx
- For Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System Readme, verify this link
http://lab.msdn.microsoft.com/vs2005/teamsystem/readme.aspx
- After installation to configure Visual Studio to use Team Foundation Server functionality, you must connect to a Team Foundation Server
Note: At a minimum, Visual Studio users should be a member
of the Power Users local security group.
To connect to a Team Foundation Server
· On the Tools menu in VS.NET 2005 Beta 1 Refresh, click Connect to Team Foundation Server. The Team Foundation Server dialog box appears.
Note: Connect to Team Foundation Server menu option is there only in VS.NET
2005 Beta 1 refresh and not VS.NET 2005 Beta1
· Click Add. The Add Team Foundation Server dialog box appears.
· In the TFS Name box, type the name of the application tier server hosting Team Foundation Server.
· In the TFS URL box, type the following URL (replacing ServerName with the name of the application tier server hosting Team Foundation Server):
http://ServerName:8080/BIS/registration.asmx
· Click OK to return to the Team Foundation Server dialog box.