Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 1 Configuration
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:author: Aaron Ball
:email: nullspoon@iohq.net



After finishing my last post on the installation of Team Foundation Server 2010
Beta 1, I closed down for the day and went home (now now, no judging...that was
a long post). Today I'm back to go over the configuration of TFS 2010 Beta.

If you're coming to this blog post from my last one on the installation of TFS
2010 Beta, you will have just restarted your server and the Team Foundation
Server configuration screen should be up. That's where we'll be starting here.

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At the first configuration page, you must decide which confiruation path you
want to take. The descriptions that the page gives are quite helpful in
deciding which path to take since they give "You want to use this if..." and
"You don't want to use this if..." sections for each option.  For my purposes
(Single-server installation with Sharepoint not installed yet and using the
default instance of SQL Server), the *Default Configuration* will suffice.
Click **Next**.

The next page of the configuration wizard (if Default Configuration was
selected) simply indicates that some tests will be performed on the server to
determine if certain pre-requisites are met for a proper configuration. Click
**Next**.

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Here you are prompted for a service account. This account will be used as the
service account to run Windows Sharepoint Services (WSS) and SQL Reporting
Services. For my instance, I created a domain user account called TFSWSSService
(creative, yeah?). If you want, you can click *Test* to confirm that the
username and password work. After typing in the requested username and
password, click **Next**.

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Here the configuration wizard runs tests on your server to confirm everything
is installed properly. The first time through, I received a warning on the
first test because my firewall was disabled (I talked about that in the last
post regarding installing TFS). Since we're all learning here, I elected to
re-enable my firewall so I could have the problems that accompany closed
firewall ports (the more problems you have, the better you get at
troubleshooting the given system, right?).  Click **Next**.

image:files/05_Applying_Configuration_Settings.jpg[height=300]

Here's where the real fun begins...if you can classify sitting around for about
20 minutes watching a looping progress bar as fun.

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Once the configuration is complete and assuming you had no errors or warnings
on previous screens, you should seen a screen that says what we all love to
exclaim at the end of a long project...SUCCESS. The great thing is that if you
click **Next**, it continues to say Success as well as telling you where you
can find the configuration log. How considerate. Click **Close**.

That's it for now. If you followed my last post on the installation of TFS, you
probably noticed that I installed Team Build as well as TFS. My next post will
be on the configuration of Team Build.

Thanks for reading.

Dirk


Category:Microsoft

Category:Team_Foundation_Server

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