TFS 2018 Configuration and Administration

This 4-day deep dive course is designed for team members who are responsible for the installation, configuration, and administration of Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2018. This course teaches not only the technical know-how to successfully run your TFS infrastructure, but also best practices based on industry experience.

This course combines both technical presentations as well as hands-on lab exercises designed to ensure attendees gain a solid, practical understanding of how to administer TFS 2018 in modern work environments.

Key topics covered in this course include product installation, configuring security & permissions, reporting, customisation, and installing extensions from the Visual Studio marketplace. The course also covers both build and release management and how to configure environments to support modern DevOps best practices.

If you’re responsible for looking after your organisation’s TFS server, then this is the course for you.

At the completion of this course, attendees will be able to:

• Plan your TFS deployment and install TFS 2018 in a variety of topologies
• Determine appropriate service accounts
• Plan a migration and/or upgrade to TFS 2018
• Understand the value of quarterly updates and how to install them
• Install, configure, and optimize the Code Search feature
• Troubleshoot issues with Code Search
• Configure SMTP support and customise email alerts
• Install extensions from the Visual Studio Marketplace
• Keep your TFS data safe using backup and restore
• Monitor the health and performance of your TFS server
• Plan your project hierarchies using Team Projects and Team Project Collections
• Create, modify, rename, and delete Team Projects and Team Project Collections
• Configure standard role-based security for team projects
• Use advanced security to manage fine-grained security
• Configure version control settings, including backward compatibility
• Customise the process template to better suit your teams’ requirements
• Understand the reporting infrastructure and create custom Excel reports
• Configure Data warehouse and OLAP cube refresh and rebuilds
• Plan, install, and manage the new build environments
• Optimise build infrastructure to provide fast feedback to teams
• Configure a release management environment
• Manage configuration values in release management

Audience
This course is designed for administrators and software development professionals responsible for the day-to-day administration and operation of a Team Foundation Server. Every organisation using TFS should have at least one or two “TFS champions” who are skilled in the topics and areas covered in this course.

Pre-requisites
Attendees should have some familiarity with installations of server products such as operating systems, SQL server, etc. Some experience using Visual Studio would also be beneficial.

Note:
This class is only available as a remote experience in the virtual classroom. The instructor will be teaching live, but there are no in-person seats available for this event.