Team Foundation Server Installation Guide)

 

1. Description

The installation of team Foundation server (vstf) is not easy. During the installation process, I believe that many people may encounter some problems and the installation may fail, although there is a so-called installation manual provided by Microsoft at hand, I have also heard lectures from so-called experts on webcast. However, due to the detailed problems, I have not described them very clearly. According to the instructions, the installation was also difficult, and the installation was successful.

Two vstf deployment modes are available: one is single server deployment and the other is dual server deployment, this article mainly describes the installation of the single-server mode without involving the details of Dual-server deployment and other fields. It serves only as a supplement to the information provided by Microsoft, and does not involve too many details.

You can download the latest installation manual from the following URL:

Http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink? Linkid = 40042

2. Preparations before installation

1) Hardware requirements: see the hardware requirements in the Microsoft manual. The answer here is: Can 512 mb ram be installed? When running the installer, the installer performs a series of checks. If your server has less than 1 GB of memory (the minimum manual requirement), The provisioner is only listed as a warning, the installation is not affected, but from the performance point of view, if your team has more than 10 people, we recommend that you use 1 GB or more.

2) operating system requirements: It must be Windows Server 2003 SP1 Enterprise Edition or Windows Server 2003 SP1 Standard Edition. There is no room for discussion.

3) create a required user for installing vstf. These users are the installer, service, and report users. You can use Names recommended by Microsoft, such as tfssetup, tfsservice, and tfsreports. Generally, tfssetup must be added to the Administrators group. For tfsservice, it is not recommended that tfsreports be added to the Administrators group because of potential security risks. However, if your group is not very large, it is not acceptable to do so.

(4). Net Framework 2.0 must be installed.

5) IIS 6.0 must be installed.

6) You must install SQL Server 2005 and SP1. Note that vstf does not support SQL Server 2005 express edition. Vstf requires the installation of Reporting Service and Analysis Service. Integration Service is not required. Before installation, set the services related to SQL Server 2005 to Automatic startup, and all services must be in the enabled status. Otherwise, subsequent installation may fail and you have to start from the beginning.

7) the installation sequence must be summarized in the following order: Windows2003-> windows2003sp1-> iis6.0->. Net framework2.0-> SQL Server 2005-> SQL Server 2005 SP1.

3. Install Windows SharePoint service2.0

1) wss2.0 must be installed with SP2, download the address of Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services 2.0 with Service Pack 2 is http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink? Linkid = 55087. The downloaded file is named stsv2.exe.

2) in the Microsoft manual, The WSS installation prompt is to install WSS for users who use vstf. To be lazy, you can still use administrator to install WSS. In fact, there is no big difference.

3) Note that in the installation prompt, You must select "server farm" instead of "typical installation ". After WSS is installed, you can see the "SharePoint Management Center" site in IIS. If you do not see the site, it indicates that your installation has encountered a problem. Microsoft entered http: // servername/for the test. If "under construction" is displayed on the page, the installation is successful. In fact, this does not represent anything. It has also appeared in the author's installation, however, the site "SharePoint Management Center" is not displayed in IIS, and an error occurs in subsequent installation.

4) install team Foundation server.

 

4. Problems and countermeasures during vstf Installation

Start vstf installation. After a long detection process, you may think it will be smooth sailing, but the problem always occurs when you accidentally.

Error 1: The installer has encountered an unexpected error installing this package. This may indicate a problem with this package. The error code is 26403.

The installer encountered an unexpected error in this installation package. This may be because the file in the package is damaged. The error code is 26403.

Cause analysis: the installer needs to add the user named tfsidentity to the iis_wpg Workgroup, but the error is caused by the absence of this user in the operating system.

Countermeasure: Create a tfsidentity user and add it to the iis_wpg workgroup. To be safe, you can restart your computer once.

 

Error 2: the CommandLine '"C: \ Program Files \ common files \ microsoft shared \ Web Server Extensions \ 60 \ bin \ stsadm.exe "... 'returned non-zero value:-2130242250

Command Line "C: \ Program Files \ common files \ microsoft shared \ Web Server Extensions \ 60 \ bin \ stsadm.exe"... return a non-zero value:-2130242250.

Cause Analysis: this is a typical cause of wss2.0 installation problems.

Countermeasure: uninstall wss2.0, restart the computer, and reinstall wss2.0 with SP2.

 

Error 3: insufficient permissions to access reportserver

Countermeasure: Modify the access permission of the Report Server virtual directory of SQL Server 2005 in IIS manager. Do not log on anonymously. You can set it to use the tfsservice account or tfsreports account for access.

5. Conclusion

The installation of vstf is not easy. because too many software or systems are involved, you need to carefully plan the installation. We hope this guide will help you. If any omission exists, please correct it.

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