03 | Manage Team Foundation Server Steven Borg | Co-founder & Strategist, Northwest Cadence Anthony Borton | ALM Consultant, Enhance ALM

Manage Team Project Collections Configure for backup and recovery Monitor server health and performance Operate Lab Management Manage security Manage reporting for Team Foundation Server Module Overview

Microsoft Virtual Academy Operate Lab Management

What the Study Guide says… Operate Lab Management. –operating and modifying lab environments –repairing lab environments –using snapshots –storing System Center Virtual Machine Manager environments

MSDN Resources TopicLink operating and modifying lab environmentshttp://examcr.am/ZEIi1u repairing lab environmentshttp://examcr.am/Z78O8Y using snapshotshttp://examcr.am/12tJoCg storing System Center Virtual Machine Manager environments

Introduction to Lab Management Overview: Benefits of Lab Management: –Use a test plan to run automated tests –Use a build-deploy-test workflow –Collect diagnostic data from all machines, even during manual testing –Automatic test agent installation Additional Benefits with SCVMM: –Quickly reproduce machine configurations –Reproduce the exact conditions of a bug –Run multiple copies of a lab environment at the same time

Changing Properties of an SCVMM environment 1.Open Microsoft Test Manager and connect to the team project. 2.Open Lab Center. 3.Choose the Lab tab. 4.Choose the Environments sub-tab. 5.A list of environments is displayed. 6.Choose the environment that you want to view or change. 7.Choose Open, and then follow the steps in the wizard to view or change the properties. 8.If you have opened the wizard just to view the properties of the SCVMM environment, choose Cancel to close the wizard. If you have made changes and want to save the changes, choose Finish.

Repairing Lab Environments When you view your lab environment in the Environments tab in Lab Center, the status might be in the Not Ready state and display the error message, “The environment has one or more errors.” –The installation or configuration of a test agent on one or more of the machines in your environment failed. –There is a communication problem between one of the test agents in your environment, and your test controller. –The test controller or the test agent process has shut down or is not functioning. –The user account of the test agent or the lab service account cannot be authenticated by the test controller. To repair, choose Repair Environment from shortcut menu

Using Snapshots Read You can do the following with environment snapshots: –Creating Snapshots of an Environment –Restoring an Environment From a Snapshot –Sharing a Snapshot of an Environment –Storing an Environment With Snapshots in the Library –Deleting a Snapshot of an Environment

Storing SCVMM environments Read Can use stored environment in the following situations: –Archiving deployed environments –Creating stored environments from stored virtual machines and templates –Creating a stored network isolated environment –Createing a stored environment from a deployed environment

DEMO Microsoft Virtual Academy Operate Lab Management

Microsoft Virtual Academy Manage security

What the Study Guide says… Manage security. –configuring limited users –managing roles in Team Foundation Server using Active Directory groups –managing permissions in Team Foundation Server in SharePoint, SSRS, builds, source control, and Work Item Management –creating and managing teams –configuring security for users who do not have a Client Access License (CAL)

MSDN Resources TopicLink configuring limited usershttp://examcr.am/14DcvGK managing roles in TFS using Active Directory groups managing permissions in TFS in SharePointhttp://examcr.am/11NHKKt managing permissions in TFS in SSRShttp://examcr.am/12tL8vq managing permissions in TFS in buildshttp://examcr.am/1799vQ9 managing permissions in TFS in source controlhttp://examcr.am/17MvmOp managing permissions in TFS in Work Item Managementhttp://examcr.am/118wgQ8 creating and managing teamshttp://examcr.am/17yhogj configuring security for users who do not have a Client Access License (CAL)

Limited Users (formerly Work Item Only View) Limits the user to only creating new work items and viewing / editing work items that they have created.

Configuring Limited Users (AKA “No CAL users) From web access, click the “gear” to get to the Admin site Click the “Control Panel” link on the breadcrumb Click the “access levels” tab Add Windows users, Active Directory groups, or TFS groups to the Limited access level

DEMO Microsoft Virtual Academy Manage security

Microsoft Virtual Academy Manage reporting for Team Foundation Server

What the Study Guide says… Manage reporting for Team Foundation Server. –managing basic reporting using Microsoft Office Excel Services –customizing the SharePoint team project portal –uploading a new SSRS Team Foundation Server report –configuring Team Foundation Server to enable a report to appear in a SharePoint project portal –rebuilding the Team Foundation Server data warehouse

MSDN Resources TopicLink managing basic reporting using Microsoft Office Excel Services customizing the SharePoint team project portalhttp://examcr.am/119LEhD uploading a new SSRS Team Foundation Server reporthttp://examcr.am/111VI8f configuring Team Foundation Server to enable a report to appear in a SharePoint project portal rebuilding the Team Foundation Server data warehouse

Manually Rebuilding the Warehouse and Cube Manual approach –Go to –Process the warehouse: click ProcessWarehouse, and then click Invoke –Process the cube: click ProcessAnalysisDatabase. in processingType, type either Incremental or Full, and then click Invoke

Rebuilding the Warehouse and Cube in the UI Using the TFS Administration Console –Open the administration console for Team Foundation. –Under Team Foundation, expand the name of the server, expand Application Tier, and then click Reporting. –Under Reporting, click Start Rebuild. –The Take Offline dialog box opens. –Click OK to take the data warehouse and Analysis Services cube offline. –The Rebuild the Warehouse and Analysis Services Databases dialog box opens. –Click OK to initiate the rebuild process.

Rebuilding the Warehouse and Cube via Cmd Using the TfsConfig.exe RebuildWarehouse command –Log in with an elevated command prompt –Type TFSConfig RebuildWarehouse /analysisServices to only process the cube –Type TFSConfig RebuildWarehouse /all to process both the warehouse and the cube –Note: This command has NO option that will allow you to ONLY process the warehouse, without the cube

DEMO Microsoft Virtual Academy Manage reporting for Team Foundation Server

Focus on what’s possible rather than the deep technical details –Learn the basics of Lab Management as opposed to the steps necessary to snapshot an environment Clearly understand how security around Teams works, both for version control and work items Know how to rebuild the data warehouse in multiple ways

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