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What is Azure DevOps Server?
AzureDevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server, or TFS) is a test management and application lifecycle management tool, from Microsoft's Visual Studio offerings. To license Azure DevOps Server an Azure DevOps license and a Windows operating system license (e.g. Windows Server)…
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What is Azure DevOps Server?
AzureDevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server, or TFS) is a test management and application lifecycle management tool, from Microsoft's Visual Studio offerings. To license Azure DevOps Server an Azure DevOps license and a Windows operating system license (e.g. Windows Server) for each machine…
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What is Azure DevOps Server?
AzureDevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server, or TFS) is a test management and application lifecycle management tool, from Microsoft's Visual Studio offerings. To license Azure DevOps Server an Azure DevOps license and a Windows operating system license (e.g. Windows Server) for each machine running Azure DevOps Server.
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AzureDevOps Server (formerly Team Foundation Server, or TFS) is a test management and application lifecycle management tool, from Microsoft's Visual Studio offerings. To license Azure DevOps Server an Azure DevOps license and a Windows operating system license (e.g. Windows Server) for each machine running Azure DevOps Server.
Reviewers rate Usability highest, with a score of 8.7.
The most common users of Azure DevOps Server are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Azure DevOps server is being utilized as a centralized tool for our organization's code & release management. All departments in the organization have their own repositories where they check-in their codes. Azure DevOps server along with GIT integration is serving as a central code repository for our organization. Also its widget integration and inbuilt templates to automate code build and release from almost any tech stack is worthy to have it as a DevOps tool.
- Vast range of Template for Automated Build and Release Pipeline with option to have conditional triggers
- Code repository mechanism is aligned with GIT which is a well known public repository system
- Bug Management is also an integral feature of this tool
- Dashboard creation option of Build and Release pipeline is also available
- Can add more build templates for specific technology requirements
- Can have more features in dashboards which can help dev teams stream line their tasks and priorities
- Can have raise alarm feature in case of any sort of failure in devops pipeline execution
- Helped to achieve better code management
- Helped to get rid of a separate bug management tool
- Helped to build the devops pipeline within it hence removing need for separate devops tool
Azure DevOps server has quite an upper hand while we compare it with other tools in the market. Its not just a tool in fact its been a complete suit. If we look out at other products available as alternative options to Azure DevOps Server, they are meant for a specific purpose and hence always need to be integrated with some other tool for achieving the target. While Azure DevOps integrates within itself all features and utilities required to deliver the code from developer machine to the production environment.
June 05, 2019
Take an advantage of Microsoft TFS for easy integration with other Microsoft family products
Dell Technologies uses Team Foundation Server for managing multiple projects across the North America region and rolling out in all other regions. If you use Visual Studio for development, TFS, or its online equivalent VSTS, you can have a fairly seamless end-to-end integration. Out of the box, it provides code management, testing, work hierarchy in agile formats, automated build, and deployment.
Dell manages source code, project reporting, engineering progress tracking and release management for agile software development. Microsoft TFS is also leveraged by the Product Management group to define and manage product requirements and managing the technical backlog. TFS really makes it easier to perform an end-to-end integration, reporting, tracking, code management, automated build, and deployment, etc.
- TFS makes it easier to build technical features and acceptance criteria that different team members of Product Manager, Engineering, Quality Assurance, and Release Management.
- It enables the product managers to review technical backlog, prioritize features and go to market that helps improve key performance indicators.
- It provides seamless integration with Microsoft products like SharePoint, IIS, Visual Studio that helps integrate and exchange data.
- TFS UI could improve like some of its major competitors with fewer options on the same UI page. TFS tries to offer too many options on the same UI.
- Development in branches is hard to achieve and TFS has a room for improvement.
- Integration with non-Microsoft is difficult. TFS could provide easier integration with other product lines to improve acceptability.
- Positive ROI for Microsoft Product Suits since TFS easily integrates with other Microsoft Product lines.
- ROI is negative where you find it difficult and spent more time to integrate with Non-Microsoft product lines.
- TFS server could have negative ROI if the number of users is really limited. However, for larger organizations, it is worth investing in TFS.
TFS gives and edge over JIRA for inbuilt version controlling that TFS has. TFS provides a GIT version control repository that offers centralized TFVC and distributed GIT Version control. Version controlling is a key feature that promoted TFS over JIRA in the implementation of a decision making process.
December 01, 2015
Team Foundation Server for R&D teams
Team Foundation Server is used by the entire company across the globe. Development uses it for obvious reasons in developing new software and fixing bugs that are found and logged into Team Foundation Server by our quality assurance analysts. Support uses Team Foundation Server to log issues from clients and professional services uses it to make minor changes while in the field with clients. Sales uses it to demonstrate new features to clients and to set up environments when holding trade shows.
- Allows a great deal of history detail on every issue found or new feature added. It keeps a detailed history of any code changes by developers so you can always see who changed what portion or code.
- You can adjust users permissions down to a group of users (i.e. testers vs. developers vs. managers) and can get very technical with permissions for each group. The permissions can also be set based on certain portions of the code base not just on the entire thing.
- The information that is tracked is great. When you find an issue and you log it in Team Foundation Server you have many options for fields to utilize and edit to make sure you get the correct team of developers to look at it. You can also have different requirements for each issue or when checking in code such as changes made, priority level, area and iteration (these are used for internal development purposes usually).
- Simplify the permissions interface and navigation. Permissions are great but sometimes finding the correct screen is difficult.
- Make the interaction between different versions easier. Sometimes you can run into issues when trying to use an older Team Foundation Server server with a new Team Foundation Server Build server. This occurs when you don't have the resources to upgrade all servers at once.
- Team Foundation Server significantly improved efficiency by allowing everything to be integrated which allows the global teams to work together on items.
- We can provide better support to our clients because our support teams can use Team Foundation Server to log problems and to check on existing issues.
- Fixing issues in development is easier to overcome since the history tracking is so thorough and detailed.
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I have not used any other source control software.
Research and Development, Support, Professional Services, Legal, Sales, and Marketing.
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Experience with Team Foundation Server is a plus but any source control software is preferred. Experience with SQL Server and other Microsoft products. Knowledge of source control practices and software configuration management ideas are required. Also use with virtualization and Hyper-V is useful along with knowledge of general IT infrastructure such as servers, virtual machines, networks, etc.
- Test Cases and test plans
- Development of new software
- Change tracking
- Creating client specific branches or patches.
- Change tracking allowing for the rollback of specific changesets without having to rollback changes that were done afterwards. Can also do partial rollbacks.
- Utilize some of the new features of the newer versions of TFS and have all TFS servers on the latest versions.
- Integrate newly acquired software into existing Team Foundation Server servers and databases.
- Implement a more concise permissions plan.
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- Existing Relationship with the Vendor
- Positive Sales Experience with the Vendor
My company is a Gold Certified Microsoft Partner and as such we utilize most Microsoft products and they are typically the go-to for any of our software needs. Having this existing relationship helps whenever a new need arises as Microsoft develops most of their software with larger corporations in mind.
I doubt it would be changed as we utilize many other Microsoft products and the integration between all products is fairly seamless when using software from the same vendor.
- Implemented in-house
- Connectivity to all network servers
- Correct configuration of servers
No
I have used Microsoft's Technet website to find a few answers to the Team Foundation Server issues I have come across. It is very easy to do a search on Google, Bing, etc. and find Technet results that typically answer the question.
- Code check ins
- Connecting to TFS servers
- Editing projects
- Editing user permissions
- Setting up initial build definitions and configuring Build servers with correct software
- Upgrading TFS server to new hardware using newer version of software.
Yes
It works rather well. The biggest issue with it is with the overly complex permissions. Instead of having permissions for each area of TFS in their own spot it would be nice to just have them on one 'page' and then divide them into tabs or something of that sort rather than entirely different sections of TFS (i.e. for test permissions you must go into test cases then security, for build permissions you must go into builds then security, etc)