TFS – Page 2 – ALMGuide

Order of source repository

It is possible to have both TFVC and GIT in the same TFS project, and when you create a new project you set the default repository and the afterwards you can add the second one.
An important notice about this:
If you run XAML based builds, the build definitions can only use the default repository aka the one you selected when you created the TFS project.

So if you still use XAML, make sure you select the correct repository when you create the project

It is not possible to switch over. At least not officially yet….
UPDATE: MS support has a created a tool that can fix this

Number of build definitions

If you are stuck on upgrading to TFS 2018 due to the old deprecated XAML based builds, it can be a challenge to see how far you are from the goal of zero XAML builds.

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Security updates for TFS on-premise

The TFS team has released a security update for TFS 2015 and 2017, that fixes issues with cross-site scripting.

See TFS Security updates

Shelveset Cleanup

When you have a TFS collection that has been running for a long time, as I do, you end with a lot of shelvesets.
The drawbacks of this is of course, (minor) storage, but it also affects upgrade time.
But instead of manually delete all the old obsoleted stuff manually, Powershell rescues us.

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Powershell connection to VSTS

The previous sample scripts on this blog has been about how to use Powershell through the REST API on a on-premise TFS. I’ve got some question about how to connect to Visualstudio Online (VSTS).

All the samples can be modified to connect to VSTS.

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Deploy artifacts without SMB

When doing release management one of the first step is to get the artifacts from your buildjob copied to a remote machine. TFS already have some buildin tasks like Windows machine File Copy or the Azure File Copy task

The Azure file copy task uses the Azure scripts to copy files to the Blob or to the VM itself( it actually copies the files through the Azure LOB storage)

The Windows Machine File copy is using robocopy so it is meant for copying locally through the SMB protocol. However you might be blocked by a firewall that wont allow SMB.

Then PowerShell comes to the rescue. (As always)

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Getting Latest build in PS

Sometimes you need to get the latest successful build and get the download path for the artifact, for e.g. some 3 part tools or as an input for other build jobs.

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