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Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

By : Tarun Arora
Book Image

Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook

By: Tarun Arora

Overview of this book

Team Foundation Server (TFS) allows you to manage code repositories, build processes, test infrastructure, and deploy labs. TFS supports your team, enabling you to connect, collaborate, and deliver on time. Microsoft's approach to Application Lifecycle Management (ALM) provides a flexible and agile environment that adapts to the needs of your team, removes barriers between roles, and streamlines processes. The book introduces you to creating and setting up team projects for scrum teams. You'll explore various source control repositories, branching, and merging activities, along with a demonstration of how to embed quality into every code check-in. Then, you'll discover agile project planning and management tools. Later, emphasis is given to the testing and release management features of TFS which facilitate the automation of the release pipeline in order to create potentially shippable increments. By the end of the book, you'll have learned to extend and customize TFS plugins to incorporate them into other platforms and enable teams to manage the software lifecycle effectively.
Table of Contents (16 chapters)
Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2015 Cookbook
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Configuring TFS Cache settings


The TFS application tier maintains a file cache in order to speed up the file download process to the end user by serving the files from the cache, rather than getting them afresh from the database each time. The cache grows over time and can start to dent the available storage space on the application tier. The cache uses a good percentage of the available space; in case your main drive does not have a lot of available space, you will ignorantly not benefit from the caching facility. Moving the TFS Cache to a separate directory enables you to free up the storage on the main drive and plan a more relaxed backup or recovery procedure for the new drive. It is possible that you may see some performance gains by changing the cache directory to its own directory. In this recipe, you'll learn how to change the TFS Cache directory to a different directory.

Getting ready

You need permission to log into the TFS application tier.

How to do it...

  1. Log into the TFS application...