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This upgrade document gives detailed step by step procedure for the In-place upgrade from TFS ing and SharePoint.

Environment Details:

TFS Environment

Windows server R2, TFS update 5, SQL SP1, SharePoint SP1

TFS Environment

Windows server R2, TFS RTM, SQL SP1, SharePoint SP1

Permission Requirements:

The account running the upgrade needs to the following permissions.

–local Administrator on the application Tier.
–sysadmin on SQL Data Tier. Local Administrator on Reporting Tier as well.
–sharepoint Farm Administrator.

Upgrade Process:

As this would be a in-place upgrade to TFS-from TFS 2013. The requirement for operating system, SQL Server and SharePoint remains same for both the versions of TFS. You can find the MSDN documentation here for requirement and compatibility.

Back up all of the databases from TFS, it's recommended to take database backup before proceeding with the upgrade.

Following is the screens of the installation process,

Step 1:installing binaries.

As we can see in Programs and Features, TFS Update 5 is installed.

When you click on the Tfs_server.exe file, it'll start installing binaries required on to the server and in the same pro Cess It'll also uninstall previous version from server (in our Case TFS 2013).

In this process TFS binaries would be removed but the databases is untouched.

As we can see now, TFS are uninstalled and TFS is installed.

The TFS Installation Wizard would complete and automatically point it to the TFS Upgrade Wizard.

Step 2:specifying TFS configuration database.

We existing SQL Server which host TFS databases (this should get populated automatically) need

Note: It would only lists the configuration database and not the collection databases. Configuration database holds the information for other collection databases.

Note: Check the box by confirming and you have taken backup.

Step 3:selecting TFS Service Account

Provide the service account. The Service account can be the system account or the user account.

(It should already show our TFS service account which is in use before the upgrade process, if you want you can Chan GE the Service account also)

Step 4:file Cache Folder

Set the file cache folder path. By default, path would be set and you can change the same.

Step 5:selecting Build Service Account

If build is configured, provide the service account and click Next.

Step 7:configuring Reporting

Select the checkbox to configure Reporting Services.

Step 8:providing settings for Reporting services

Populate the URL for reporting service configuration and validate the URL is browsing to the URL on a browser.

Step 9:specifying Warehouse Database:

Click on the List Available Databases hyperlink. Select the valid Warehouse database and click Next.

Step 10:setting Analysis instance.

Enter Analysis Instance name and proceed.

Step 11:setting account for reports.

You can provide separate reader account for reports or ignore the screen and proceed. (Ignoring it would use the same account for TFS Reports as TFS Services which we have set earlier) If you had the used Network service as TFS service account and we have to specify a different account here as we cannot use N Etwork Service as TFS Reports Reader account.

Step 12:setting for SharePoint.

Select the checkbox to integrate with SharePoint. Select default setting and proceed.

Step 13:confirming Settings

Confirm the setting before proceeding to next step.

Step 14:readiness check.

The verification process identifies errors and warnings. These errors should be fixed before proceeding further.

(The warning in this scenario can be ignored as it's complaining to use different account for reports)

Step 15:configuring the update.

This step would configure the application Tier and start the upgrade of Project Collection (s) in the background. Proceed with next to monitor the collection upgrade.

Step 16:finishing Upgrade

Once The upgrade succeeds, click Next and Close. This would automatically open Team Foundation administration Console.

Note: In the case you didn't have a Reports or SharePoint configured earlier, then those options would is disabled for you And we cannot enable it during this upgrade. But your can opt out of reports/sharepoint during upgrade. That is means if you had Reports enabled in TFS environment and you wish not to use Reports in TFS so you can Che CK Reports option out, same goes for SharePoint.

That's it, you've a brand new TFS setup from exciting new features!

Content Created By:ramandeep Singh
Content reviewed By:romit Gulati

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