Visual Studio Team Services: Migrating from TFS
At first glance, migrating to Visual Studio Team Services seems like a daunting task. This course walks through all required migration steps in detail and gives substantial best practices, resources, and cleanup recommendations along the way.
What you'll learn
Team Foundation Server is getting better than it has ever been. The cloud offering of TFS, Visual Studio Team Services, is now mature enough that just about any organization out there can take advantage of the many benefits of the cloud infrastructure. It is apparent that a great majority of TFS users have already migrated to VSTS. Unfortunately, the end-to-end walkthrough resources out there tend to fall flat in this area. In this course, Visual Studio Team Services: Migrating from TFS, you will learn the many facets of every migration step, as well as the pitfalls that can be realized by non-optimal decisions. You'll also explore migrating to GIT source control. Finally, you'll learn and understanding the important responsibilities about being a user of cloud technologies. This course can be used as a guide for specific parts of a migration or the entire system. After finishing this course, you will have the skills needed to perform a best-practice migration to VSTS from any level of TFS on-premises implementation.
Table of contents
- Module Overview 1m
- Usage Hierarchy and Using Collections 5m
- Using Team Projects 3m
- Using Team Projects Demo 2m
- Using Teams 3m
- Using Teams Demo 6m
- Recommendation 2m
- Applying Best Practice Security Taxonomies 1m
- Best Practice Security Models 10m
- Creating AD Groups Demo 2m
- Applying Security Groups Demo 8m
- Module Summary 2m
- Module Overview 3m
- Migration Strategy 5m
- Demo - Pick a Migration Date 3m
- Migration Steps 4m
- Demo - Generating Source Queries 6m
- Demo - Generating Target Queries 1m
- Demo - Connecting Excel to Queries 2m
- Demo - Migrating Data 8m
- Don't Migrate Tasks 1m
- Demo - Migrate Epic Data 4m
- Remap Epic Data 2m
- Demo - Remap Epic Data 2m
- Migrate Bug Data 1m
- Demo - Migrate Bug Data 2m
- Module Summary 1m
About the author
Scott Tate is the founder and Chief Information Officer for Blndspt.com, a Colorado-based development and cloud organization where he assists companies as they solve challenges with their cloud endeavors. Scott has over 20 years of experience with software development, ALM consulting, and cloud computing.