Migrating to Team Foundation Server with Matthew Mitrik

Posted By: Rory | Feb 15th, 2007 @ 6:43 PM

[Note: This interview, although posted by me (Rory), was actually conducted by Brian Keller - our technical evangelist for Team System.]

So you want to use Team Foundation Server… but how do you get all of your existing data from your current source code control or bug tracking system over to your shiny new TFS server? That’s what the Team Foundation Server Migration Toolkit is designed for. Matthew Mitrik, Program Manager for TFS Migration, talks about the tool his team is building which will help make it easier to migrate to Team Foundation Server.

For more information, check out the following blogs:
Migration Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/tfs_migration/
Robert Horvick’s Blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/roberthorvick/
Component Software (mentioned by Matt during the interview): http://www.componentsoftware.com/Products/Converter/index.htm

Update: The original title + description for this interview was accidentally swapped with that of another upcoming interview. This has now been corrected.

Tags: Team Foundation Server, Visual Studio, VSTS

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PerfectPhase
"This is not war, this is pest control!" - Dalek to Cyberman

Higher resolution please!!

rschrieken
Constantly in doubt

Are there any plans for migration from TFS to TFS? Comes in handy if you need to consolidate to a central infrastructure

briankel

PerfectPhase wrote:

Higher resolution please!!

Did you try the "Download" link instead of the in-page player? For this series of videos we were playing with a 16:9 format. I agree that it probably looks worse in the in-page player but please check out the Download link and let us know if it's any better. We're still tweaking...

Thanks -
Brian Keller

briankel

rschrieken wrote:

Are there any plans for migration from TFS to TFS? Comes in handy if you need to consolidate to a central infrastructure

That's a popular request. Big Smile

This is definitely something you could build as a provider for the TFS Migration Toolkit that Matthew described in the interview. We expect that this will be one of the first providers that gets built by the community once the Toolkit is released.

Brian Keller

briankel

Update: The pre-release for this toolkit has been made available on CodePlex here: http://www.codeplex.com/MigrationSyncToolkit

This will also be the location for the final release once it's made available. Be sure to log your feedback at the CodePlex site if you have any suggestions or bugs to log.

Brian

briankel

The official release is now posted. (Same location: http://www.codeplex.com/MigrationSyncToolkit)

Brian