Wednesday 12 March 2008

Tips for upgrading TFS 2005 to TFS 2008

I found this site to be very useful. I followed the instructions and they were pretty much on the money. I had a couple of minor issues - mostly to do with domain changes so beyond the scope of Grant's instructions.

So success in upgrading to TFS 2008 and WSS 3.0 - and was relatively painless aswell.

The main things I would recommend when doing this are :

1. Test the disaster recover - an upgrade is as good an excuse as any (use a standby server).
2. Trial run the upgrade on a copy standby server.
3. Take a disk image of your server before you start - that way if it all goes v.bad you can recover easily.
4. Be prepared for things to go wrong - the pre scans and best practices are fairly strict.
5. Change the Share Point Administration shortcut in admin tools to point to the new port.

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