Video: How Do I: Use the Team Foundation Server Best Practices Analyzer?

Presented:Richard Hundhausen

Scan and analyze your Team Foundation Server using the Team Foundation Server Best Practices Analyzer, found in the Team Foundation Power Tools. Richard Hundhausen introduces you to this tool.

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Of monitors should have as I m the president of excess in a Microsoft regional Director of Visual Studio team system MVP and this how to video will take a look in best practices around team foundation server and run watching the standard from a 1 quart explaining to do these best practices and you re taking notes on a visual tool to all horse of September 2000 sudden release of team foundation power tools includes the first release of team foundation server best practices analyzer or CPA for sure that team foundation server joins the ranks of SQL Server sure going to stock exchange and other Microsoft products and join the same automated in all schools such as this initiated by tool you can use either preinstallation or production fieldbus environment to perform the following functions gather configuration information from its defense deployment perform specific tasks and its effects on analyze the collected information records is a

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Rules and reports the findings informational warning or error messages or provide links to articles for you to mitigate these ones there s no number you can even locate and download for team foundation power tools at www team system which is thoughtful soul to analyze my team foundation server for best practices CRM in my virtual environment that got us practice analyzer installed we can see this underscores programs team foundation server power tools and best practices analyzers executable and bring us up in a nice interface and you can start the stands here you can import previous stance and look at the reports of those reviews bring up the help file and read through what some of the best practices are correctly that is a prerequisite to run this application you have Windows power show 1 0 installed as well as net 2 0 team Explorer also you must have administrator permissions and

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And were you install and run the BPA is little sufficient access to the computers and steps now to team foundation server BPA gathers data from Windows management instrumentation classes Microsoft SQL Server databases I estimate this registry entries or partial replication or use the data and determine what is serving fall to a firm stand here with your new skin will simply call this can them are health check and see if bantustans let s hear you can see we have health checks and preinstalled check the health checks and scans analyzes the team foundation server deployment determines whether best practices recommend it required configurations are met and preinstalled check scams and was pure for TFS is to be installed or maybe already installed to determine what role system requirements and software requirements you go into a culture or existing a

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Soldier with a conjecture for the client and team foundation server of server side pieces were computed independently in mid August or just about five is this a port 8080 is the default here is where it starts getting okay to scanning is completed and took a few moments are so noted in falsely because you completed the priest in processing the server health check in the server install check out our application and data tier of the same instance you re a good interview report of the best practices can in his first XML data file into a reporter would have look at it as different types are critical issues all issues informational items would also look at true reports over Portugal s reach one of these hospitals from inherent to go look at so this critical issues that a lot of directory

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Found messages of some users are the necessary permissions regarding team federation server QS and update as obstacles women and people of Islam which was highlighted and jump in here and all the hyperlink tells more opposition is opens up to help document takes us to this particular best practice or maybe worse practice in this case it is tells us that the IQ essence GDR patch version 2 is not installed and it would be required for a service pack install this figure instance of teen bondage server is running 2005 RTM service 1 so of course this message would be on your minimize how we can come back here because the machine future entries and wonderful permissions in a couple of messages will is if you want to categorically just remove the whole series of these typical issues you can extend this essay do not shown as I began for a list

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Have been in my directory found as well as he always used to if you will do more information in addition to the critical issues in White House s warnings done here like at the very bottom here telling us that auto debug is disabled on this shows you errors warnings and best practice violations and should review this list often to be sure your system is following best practices and again you can ever tell you more about the setting what is auto debug and how you turn on or off wise and good a good reason for it to be on an informational items is just that information on specific information messages collected during a scan and I feel little bit like you re reading my diary here because all the stuff you when you conceal my dirty laundry or fruit tree reports come different view here after

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Show all information and team foundation server best practice analyzer is collected in its review has two options of detail view summary view the detailed new displays all configuration settings a hierarchical representation of the collected by the EPA and you can quickly see where the problems are because they re is bright red exes are possibly an informational message you re saying that the logical disinformation about submitting the low water sizes of the hard drive here or perhaps a one processor in a letter urging an end megabytes of memory installed or maybe we ve got some problems here with directory permissions the directory here for reference by a half dozen on default permissions so did you control down and help guidance on these things and lots or you can ignore them in the summary view gives you all have interesting list of a

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Tree and gives you all the sites that were processed by the EPA should use this report is due to begin results in a big old guidance to help about issues by using a analyzer and the help documentation finally there s other reports which have a couple to a hidden or hidden items report which just shows us anything that we might have a selected to hide from view on the other views and it ll show up here to allow you to actually come back in her change her mind and say you know maybe I do care about this error message was going to show this again for all instances as for own eyes and see it again went wrong is also a runtime log which gives you a lot of until information about running a big game engine you can use this report with CFS analyzers about what is expected to rule in messages about permission problems of the runtime issues is a prerequisite to

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Should know it is reportedly printed a printer or you can export a report out as an actual document and you can choose also HTML if you want to have actually look nice over the current report or CSV only for the current reports will to bring up an Excel and further analyzed to choose exile option will be for the entire run up to support looking at that point for and find is also lets you define a specific no message and hear what you re looking for a something to do with our defined as those messages with the ACL in the summer so sort of her staff was actually run preinstall checks can and will change us over to preinstall check and we are told to run against the PSU to

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Five server via 2005 integers else when it s an okay this can read a little faster to end the report end of the list reports critical issues that could trigger delicious thing i have your server is not joined to a domain that is highly recommended for added security and also how there s conflicting team foundation server components installed the missile through May 1 elections in it s actually saying hey you cannot install TFS on the server because TFS or reinstall remember is preinstalled check and of course fail because TFS is already installed at the moment you re Augustus message was sent but that s essentially what must you say her own shoes is also the warning inheritance is a disgrace to a low lower than her farm in

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On the school of these hyperlinks on the site here is look for the help file directly is a lot of good sections and here you can read through getting started how to use the tool that what s really interesting is all the rule reference your hardware and system issues team foundation application tier issues data tier issues client issues notice the something is taken as read through this print this out for first letters home of a class is a class so summarizing can use this tool to specify a satellite proactively verify the TFS configuration setup organs recommended best practice will determine the configuration differs from defaults to let him what that means for procedures within it is for example in this tool catches an embarrassment for procedures as new tables since the factory is together recommended or required settings as well only you can identify the source of the problem of the TFS or

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Regina Slocum and it s the TFS BPA command exe which allows the previous script to run schedule stands you can do this before going to bed at night and since I was afforded a help file for more information of the commandments of fighters return thousands of the present of accessing a Microsoft regional Director and Visual Studio team system and he is

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