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Whoa - 2 Months and I have TFS Server!

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Normally I'd be ashamed at this rate of progress. Here, getting this sorted is quickly as I have is a major achievement. The main obstacles I've faced are the result of cost: IT equipment here is expensive, there is a 16% tax (even for businesses, where the equipment is essential). This means there is administrative burden getting what, in the UK, would be a low-ish spec'd server that could almost come out of petty cash. Luckily a bit of cajoling has yielded results. At least I'm getting a sense of having managed something.

Once I got the server (with a base Windows 2008 server R2) it was all set up within a 3 days. I still need to get some admin accounts set up on the domain, chiefly for Sharepoint. Doubtless there will be other problems, especially around security, but we are up and running.

The biggest problem from the software was getting the SCRUM Process template in place. There is nothing wrong with the template itself, I just found the process of getting it installed so I could actually use it a bit, erm, sub-optimal. The main fault lies in the fact that once installed, it does not appear on the templates list when creating a new TFS project. To do this you have to upload the template first, even though I ran the installer on the TFS server. It could be a case of RTFM, but a) who does that? b) the process itself could be more streamlined in the Visual Studio UI IMO, a simple list of installed but not uploaded templates would be useful. Full instructions here[^] and to keep Bob happy the team seems to be Canadian!

All [Ha!] I need do now is get our current mish-mash website into a solution that builds and upload it before starting the MVC-based re-write. I also have to figure out a migration (or in our case migrainetion) strategy for the site which has no discernible structure or rational design, this isn't helped by the fact that this is the first time I've migrated a website. Oh well, I like a challenge.

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