03 | Manage Team Foundation Server

Steven Borg | Co-founder & Strategist, Northwest CadenceAnthony Borton | ALM Consultant, Enhance ALM

• Manage Team Project Collections

• Configure for backup and recovery

• Monitor server health and performance

• Operate Lab Management

• Manage security

• Manage reporting for Team Foundation Server

Module Overview

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Operate Lab Management

What the Study Guide says…

• Operate Lab Management.– operating and modifying lab environments– repairing lab environments– using snapshots– storing System Center Virtual Machine Manager

environments

MSDN Resources

Topic Linkoperating and modifying lab environments http://examcr.am/ZEIi1u

repairing lab environments http://examcr.am/Z78O8Y

using snapshots http://examcr.am/12tJoCg

storing System Center Virtual Machine Manager environments http://examcr.am/ZEzfgM

Introduction to Lab Management

• Overview: http://examcr.am/132j169

• Benefits of Lab Management:– Use a test plan to run automated tests – Use a build-deploy-test workflow – Collect diagnostic data from all machines, even

during manual testing – Automatic test agent installation 

• Additional Benefits with SCVMM:–Quickly reproduce machine configurations– Reproduce the exact conditions of a bug – Run multiple copies of a lab environment at the

same time

Changing Properties of an SCVMM environment1. Open Microsoft Test Manager and connect to the team project.

2. Open Lab Center.

3. Choose the Lab tab.

4. Choose the Environments sub-tab.

5. A list of environments is displayed.

6. Choose the environment that you want to view or change.

7. Choose Open, and then follow the steps in the wizard to view or change the properties.

8. If you have opened the wizard just to view the properties of the SCVMM environment, choose Cancel to close the wizard. If you have made changes and want to save the changes, choose Finish.

Repairing Lab Environments

• When you view your lab environment in the Environments tab in Lab Center, the status might be in the Not Ready state and display the error message, “The environment has one or more errors.”– The installation or configuration of a test agent on one or more of

the machines in your environment failed.– There is a communication problem between one of the test agents in

your environment, and your test controller.– The test controller or the test agent process has shut down or is not

functioning.– The user account of the test agent or the lab service account cannot

be authenticated by the test controller.

• To repair, choose Repair Environment from shortcut menu

Using Snapshots

• Read http://examcr.am/12tJoCg

• You can do the following with environment snapshots:– Creating Snapshots of an Environment– Restoring an Environment From a Snapshot– Sharing a Snapshot of an Environment– Storing an Environment With Snapshots in the Library– Deleting a Snapshot of an Environment

Storing SCVMM environments

• Read http://examcr.am/ZEzfgM

• Can use stored environment in the following situations:– Archiving deployed environments– Creating stored environments from stored virtual machines

and templates– Creating a stored network isolated environment– Createing a stored environment from a deployed

environment

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Operate Lab Management

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Manage security

What the Study Guide says…

• Manage security.– configuring limited users–managing roles in Team Foundation Server using Active

Directory groups–managing permissions in Team Foundation Server in

SharePoint, SSRS, builds, source control, and Work Item Management

– creating and managing teams– configuring security for users who do not have a Client

Access License (CAL)

MSDN Resources

Topic Linkconfiguring limited users http://examcr.am/14DcvGK

managing roles in TFS using Active Directory groups

managing permissions in TFS in SharePoint http://examcr.am/11NHKKt

managing permissions in TFS in SSRS http://examcr.am/12tL8vq

managing permissions in TFS in builds http://examcr.am/1799vQ9

managing permissions in TFS in source control http://examcr.am/17MvmOp

managing permissions in TFS in Work Item Management http://examcr.am/118wgQ8creating and managing teams http://examcr.am/17yhogjconfiguring security for users who do not have a Client Access License (CAL) http://examcr.am/1799Jqo

Limited Users (formerly Work Item Only View)• Limits the user to

only creating new work items and viewing / editing work items that they have created.

Configuring Limited Users (AKA “No CAL users)• From web access, click the “gear” to get to the

Admin site

• Click the “Control Panel” link on the breadcrumb

• Click the “access levels” tab

• Add Windows users, Active Directory groups, or TFS groups to the Limited access level

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Manage security

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Foundation Server

What the Study Guide says…

• Manage reporting for Team Foundation Server.–managing basic reporting using Microsoft Office Excel

Services– customizing the SharePoint team project portal– uploading a new SSRS Team Foundation Server report– configuring Team Foundation Server to enable a report to

appear in a SharePoint project portal– rebuilding the Team Foundation Server data warehouse

MSDN Resources

Topic Linkmanaging basic reporting using Microsoft Office Excel Services http://examcr.am/12NITkA

customizing the SharePoint team project portal http://examcr.am/119LEhD

uploading a new SSRS Team Foundation Server report http://examcr.am/111VI8f

configuring Team Foundation Server to enable a report to appear in a SharePoint project portal http://examcr.am/119LEhD

rebuilding the Team Foundation Server data warehousehttp://examcr.am/18ta22u http://examcr.am/12hIrA4 http://examcr.am/13hPO5U

Manually Rebuilding the Warehouse and Cube• Manual approach– Go to

http://localhost:8080/tfs/TeamFoundation/Administration/v3.0/WarehouseControlService.asmx

– Process the warehouse: • click ProcessWarehouse, and then click Invoke

– Process the cube: • click ProcessAnalysisDatabase.• in processingType, type either Incremental or Full, and then

click Invoke

Rebuilding the Warehouse and Cube in the UI• Using the TFS Administration Console– Open the administration console for Team Foundation.– Under Team Foundation, expand the name of the server,

expand Application Tier, and then click Reporting.– Under Reporting, click Start Rebuild.– The Take Offline dialog box opens.– Click OK to take the data warehouse and Analysis Services

cube offline.– The Rebuild the Warehouse and Analysis Services

Databases dialog box opens.– Click OK to initiate the rebuild process.

Rebuilding the Warehouse and Cube via Cmd• Using the TfsConfig.exe RebuildWarehouse

command– Log in with an elevated command prompt– Type TFSConfig RebuildWarehouse /analysisServices

to only process the cube– Type TFSConfig RebuildWarehouse /all to process both

the warehouse and the cube– Note: This command has NO option that will allow you to

ONLY process the warehouse, without the cube

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Manage reporting for Team Foundation Server

• Focus on what’s possible rather than the deep technical details– Learn the basics of Lab Management as opposed to the

steps necessary to snapshot an environment

• Clearly understand how security around Teams works, both for version control and work items

• Know how to rebuild the data warehouse in multiple ways

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