Creating a new Team Project using Visual Studio 2012 on TFS 2012

In this blog post i will discuss about following things.

1. Creating a new Team Project using Visual Studio 2012 on TFS 2012 (Team Foundation Server 2012)
2. Once installed - Explore the New Look of 
• Team Project in TFS 2012
• Web Access view of  Team Project in  TFS 2012

Launch Visual Studio 2012 RC and View Team Explorer

Team Explorer closer look

Click on Create a New Team Project

Enter the name of Team Project

Select the Process template that should be used to create the team project

In my case i selected Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 2.0 template. Click Next

Type of process template that you can pick to be used for creating Team Project.
1. MS Visual Studio Scrum 2.0
2. MSF Agile Software Development 6.0
3. MSF for CMMI Process Improvement 6.0

I faced some issue with SharePoint site creation, so i picked Do not configure SharePoint site for the team project. Click Next

 


First time team project creation defaults you to Create an empty source control folder. Click Next.

Review the Team Project Settings that you have done during Team Project creation process steps. 
Click Finish.

Team Project creation process starts...



Continues....

Continues....

Team Project Created.... Successfully.... Click Close

In Team Explorer window, now you can see we are connected to the Team Foundation Server 2012 and the newly created Team Project "TFS-PROJECT-1"

Let' s see the Source Control Explorer... this is where finally Developers go for :)

Preview of Source Control Explorer 
[ Empty right now... will add more of my R&D projects as i explore more of microsoft technologies ... :) ]

Preview of Team Project Settings screen in Team Explorer window



Let's see preview of Web Access view of the newly created Team Project.




Preview of Web Access view of the newly created Team Project.

Preview of Web Access view of the newly created Team Project.

Long way to go... 
- Add new projects, CheckIn Checkout, Alerts, Automated Build, Continuous Integration setup, etc...

Thanks to Microsoft for sharing the Preview version of TFS 2012 RC freely to Developer/IT community to peek and explore... :)

Install and Configure Team Foundation Server 2012 RC on Windows Server 2012 RC

In this blog post i will discuss about following things.

1. Installing Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2012 RC on Windows Server 2012 RC.
2. Configuring TFS 2012 RC in Advanced mode with SQL Server 2012 RC.
3. Configuring Integration with SharePoint Server 2013 by creating Team Projects Site Collection.
4. Once installed - Explore the New Look of 
• TFS 2012 RC and its integration with SharePoint Server 2013 preview
• Team Foundation Server 2012 - Administration Console.
• Team Foundation Server 2012 - Web Control Panel screen views.

Download Link for Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2012 RC

http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=29918

Note: I already have Windows Server 2012 RC installed with Visual Studio 2012 RC, SQL Server 2012 RC and SharePoint Server 2013 preview.

Click tfs_server.exe file included as part of ISO

Pick the location where TFS 2012 needs to be installed and click Install Now

Once installation is completed (it is quick) and Team Foundation Server Configuration Center wizard will be launched.

Team Foundation Server Configuration Center wizard

Lets now look at the different Configuration options available in  Team Foundation Server Configuration Center wizard


Basic

Standard Single Server

Advanced

Application-Tier Only

Upgrade your previous version of TFS installations.

Configure Team Foundation Server Proxy

Configure Team Foundation Server Build Service

Configure Extensions for SharePoint Products. In my case i already have SharePoint 2013 preview installation and i am going to integrate existing SharePoint installation with TFS 2012.

I have picked Advanced option so that i have control over what i need to configure.

Provide the SQL Server Instance to be used by TFS. In my case i already have SQL Server 2012 installed and i have picked that SQL Server instance and requesting to create new Databases.

Pick Service Account and Authentication Method

Provide the port against which the TFS Application Tier Web Services to be running and the Virtual Directory name.

Configure Reporting Services integration with TFS

Provide Reporting Services settings for TFS

Provide Analysis Services Settings for TFS

Provide the Account that Reports will Run as

Configure SharePoint Products to use with TFS

Choose integration option for SharePoint with TFS. In my case i already installed SharePoint 2013 and hence i picked use the local SharePoint farm found on this machine.

Create new Team Project Collection.

Review the Configuration settings (all above steps we did before) and click Next

Review the Configuration settings (all above steps we did before) and click Next

Readiness checks validation process happens

Readiness Checks validation passed. Click Configure button.

Configuration process starts

Configuration Process completed successfully. Click Next button.

Configuration Process completed successfully and after click Finish button. Review the results page is shown and you can see Team Foundation Server link is provided. Lets click on the link.

Yes. There comes the Team Foundation Server 2012 Web Console view.





Lets check if Team Project Site Collection is created through SharePoint Central Administration --> Application Management --> Site Collection List. 

Lets check the databases list created for TFS 2012 as part of configuration process. In my case i have site collection database, TFSWareHouse database created as part of SQL Server Analytics services integration and TFS configuration database.

You can see we have now configured successfully Team Foundation Application Server and Integration with SharePoint Server 2013.

Team Foundation Server Administration Console view.

Team Foundation Server Administration Console - Application Tier view.

You can see Team Foundation Server 2012  integrated with SharePoint Server 2013 sample Team Projects Site Collection that i created.

Team Foundation Server 2012 - Control Panel web view.

Team Projects Site Collection - Control Panel - Projects list Overview screen

Team Foundation Server 2012 - Control Panel - Web Access - Permissions settings screen

Team Foundation Server 2012 - Control Panel - Security settings screen

Thanks to Microsoft again for providing the TFS 2012 preview setups to evaluate by Dev communities... :)