CHAPTER 7

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Maintaining Team Foundation Server

In the last chapter, we had some fun using TFS, so now seems a good time to talk about maintaining it. If you review the TFS architecture drawing in Figure 1-1, you will notice that TFS depends on a lot of components running properly to work. I’ll cover some of the major points that you’ll need to keep in mind while trying to keep your TFS environment healthy. You’ll look at

  • Operating system maintenance
  • SQL maintenance
  • TFS maintenance
  • Backup

This might seem obvious, but every machine in your TFS system requires maintenance. Failure to do so might not only result in a failure and downtime, but a serious ...

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