Team System Beta 1 Install
Here are my notes on installing the Team System bits that are delivered with Visual Studio 2005 Beta 1 Refresh - but first a big thanks to Joel Semeniuk for all his help in getting this working.
For the most part the install directions that come with Team System are good, but they are lacking in many respects. The key one that I struggled with was the Active Directory setup. The installation guide just notes that you need a domain, but provides little guidance after that. Considering that many people are trying to set this up in Virtual PC, that makes it even more difficult. Here are the steps I followed:
- I created the base Windows 2003 image from scratch, and used Windows Update to get it current. I then copied the image and used NEWSID to create a new SID and rename one of the computers (images).
- I used the VPC networking option that binds to the network card, rather than shared or local.
- I created static addresses for all VPCs.
- I had problems when that card was a wireless card.
- I set one of the images up as a Domain Controller, make sure the DNS for the DC points to itself.
- I set up Yukon on the domain controller, I had problems with I tried putting TFS on the DC.
- After putting Yukon on the DC and adding the TFSIdentity account (and adding it to the Domain admins group) I backed up the image so I wouldn't have to start over if something failed.
- I added the 2nd server VPC to the domain and made sure that the DNS points to DC (and no secondary DNS - had problems with that too).
- I added the domain\administrator account directly into the administrator group on the TFS machine.
- I set up TFS on this second machine following the installation guide.
- Note: When installing, if I couldn't access the the DC to look up the TFSIdentity account without difficulty, I found that restarting the VPCs (DC first) seemed to help (I think this may have been because I had my DNS setup up poorly - I had a secondary).
- The client can either be a VPC or a native install. Be sure you follow the directions and get office/project installed with the .NET support first. The key for me was to be have the client as a member of the domain and the DNS configured to point to the DC (this caused me a lot of grief).
I'm still struggling with the Project/VS integration and there seem to be some serious bugs in this area.