Procedure for Installing Team Foundation Server
The first time I Installed Team System, it took about a day. I had to learn all this stuff, and the docs were just too darn "wordy". So I made a small log file of what I had to do before I could install Team System, and what I went through while I was installing it.Turns out, if you know what's going to happen, it ain't so bad. It could be worse. It could be an Oracle installer.
First,
You need Windows Server 2003 SP1 Or later!
Install First
Note: Already on the system we had VS 2005 Team Suite
So .NET 2.0 was already present. (we still needed to install the .NET 2.0 hotfix written here.
- IIS (Without Frontpage Extensions!)
- SQL Server 2005 (no previous version)
- Collation is OK to be Hebrew
- Install everything in the install options including
- Reporting Services
- Analysis Services
- Integration Services
- Browser Service
- SQL Server Agent
- Install the KB Update for SQL Server
- Found in the TFS Installation CD under the SQLServerKB folder (I used AS2005-KB914595-x86-ENU.exe)
- Install the .NET 2.0 Hotfix
- Found under the TFC CD in folder KB913393
- Install SharePoint Services 2.0
- This is a file that can be downloaded from MS Website freely
Named stsv2.exe 40.8 MB in size.
- In the install dialog, choose Server Farm configuration!
- or install of VSTS will fail.
- IF you get an error during installation
- If there is an error about a folder called "LAYOUTS" then;
- Go to that folder, rename it or remove it and recreate it
- Press "retry" in the install dialog.
I installed it all – Now what?
You can run the TFS Installation now.
- Choose "Install Team Foundation Server" from the first Dialog.
- Choose "Single Server Installation" on the 2nd dialog if you plan to host SQL Server and TFS on the same machine.
Somewhere down the line, you will be asked to provide two users – one to be used for the Team Foundation Services, and the other for the Reporting Services. They have to be different from each other. Use a Domain user name for them or you will have access Issues in TFS for outside users (you can't add domain users in that case..)