Configuring a build server against your shiny new hosted TFS account
Now that you have a Team Foundation Service account, some of you are going to be interested in setting up a build machine to work with it. Richard Hundhausen did a very nice video to walk you through this process but I’m going to recap it because there’s a few additional things I want to explain. If you watch his video, it’s higher fidelity than this post but you might get some additional understanding here. First let’s talk about options. You can install and configure a build machine to run against your Team Foundation Service account. You will have to use a TFS 11 build agent. The TFS build agent is part of the TFS install and is available to MSDN subscribers on the download site and will be available to everyone tomorrow (Friday 9/16) at this url: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=225714 You can install the build server on any machine you use – a workgroup machine at home, a domain machine at work, an Azure VM Role, an Amazon VM, whatever you like. TFS doesn’t really care. The machine just has to have connectivity to the internet to get to tfspreview.com. Run the TFS installer on the machine you want to install the build controller/agent on and you’ll accept the license, copy the bits on to the machine, etc and then get an install screen like this. Since you are just installing a build server, you don’t want to choose any of the Team Foundation Application Server wizard. You just want the Configure Team Foundation Build Service. Click on “Configure Team Foundation Build Service” and then click the Start Wizard button at the bottom
Read the original here:
Configuring a build server against your shiny new hosted TFS account
