Planning for a Successful Integration, helps us examine what's needed to ensure that your integration is successful. It covers the prerequisites and the planning needed to begin, scenarios for various environments, and a few tips to set you up for success.

Installing Integration, looks at installing the Team Foundation Server Extensions for Project Server. We examine the steps and commands involved, a few errors that you may encounter, and how to work around them. We also look at an upgrade scenario and several considerations with it.

Configuration of Initial Permissions, looks at the minimum permissions you will need to configure for a successful installation. Permissions are, by and large, the single area in the integration where people get hung up.

Initial Integration Configuration, provides you the step-by-step instructions to initially configure the integration, including the tools needed and command options available. You'll probably need to continue this for your specific scenario.

Permissions and Security, takes a more detailed look at the permissions you'll need to configure after installation. Additionally, we cover the steps you need to perform to successfully accomplish this. If yours is an enterprise scenario, this is a good starting point but you will still need to do a detailed security assessment with your systems administrator.

Managing Project Server Integration, looks at the basic management steps and verifies that the newly installed system is working correctly. Like the Permissions and Security recipe, this is a good starting point, but some detailed planning with your project teams will be needed.

To begin with, you will need a basic understanding of Windows Server, Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio, and Project Server. This book also expects that the initial installations for these products have already been completed and they are functional.

This book is great for either a beginner of Team Foundation Server or Project Server administrator with just an idea of how the other product operates and wants to get both the Team Foundation Server and Project Server talking. It is not an exhaustive technical volume of the operation of either TFS or Project Server.

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of what they mean.

Code words in text are shown as follows: "This user will be using the command line tool TFSAdmin."

A block of code is set as follows:

function Add-SysAdmin
{
    param (
         [System.String] $localSqlInstance = 'SqlExpress',
         [System.String] $loginName = "Builtin\Administrators"
    )

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

TfsAdmin ProjectServer /RegisterPWA /pwa:http://tfspsdemo/PWA /tfs:http://tfspsdemo:8080/tfs/

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, in menus or dialog boxes for example, appear in the text like this: "In the Application Management section, click on Manage Service Applications."

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