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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

Creating a TFS database back up schedule


 

"If you fail to plan, you are planning to fail!"

 
 --Benjamin Franklin

No one wants to be the administrator of a server that goes down without a complete set of backups in place. TFS Database sits at the core of the product; the database is the repository of the data you interact with using Web Portal, Visual Studio, and Microsoft Test Manager. In this recipe, you'll learn about the database backup capability available with in TFS.

Getting ready

To configure the backup schedule, you will need to be a member of the TFS Administrator Group, a member of SQL Server Administrator Group, and (if your deployment uses SharePoint Products) a member of the Farm Administrators Group.

The TFS Service Account must have a SQL Server perform backup and create maintenance plan permissions set to allow on each instance of the SQL Server that hosts the databases that you want to back up. You need a network share to store the database backup. The service account needs full...