COOKBOOK for TFS server installation - please

Hi

I've been trying to install TFS server beta 3 refresh for more than a week - it feels more like a month...

Has anyone written down the complete cookbook for a successful installation

If so pls. forward that, because this seems very difficult to do correctly.

The very best would be a cookbook that starts off with a 'clean' virtual server, and leads me by the hand through this labyrint of strange options and issues.

Thanx

jcjj

pls. MS do supply some diagnostic tool to pinpoint faults in the setup....


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COOKBOOK for TFS server installation - please

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    JCJJ I'm sorry to hear that you're having trouble getting things set up. There are indeed a lot of options to get configured correctly - we're trying to improve the experience all the time, but it's certainly something we still need to work on.

    Firstly, I can point you at Rob Caron's installation guide - it's a great place to start.

    http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx familyid=e54bf6ff-026b-43a4-ade4-a690388f310e&displaylang=en

    This page also contains a .ini file that you can use to automatically configure SQL Server 2005 for you.

    It might be good to read the most recent readme documents - follow the links in this post: http://blogs.msdn.com/robcaron/archive/2005/09/23/473482.aspx 

    Our setup program does run through a couple of different diagnostic tools to help check that pre-requisites are installed correctly and that the server is basically running successfully. If you see any warnings or errors at setup time then it would be very helpful to us if you could post them here - it will help us understand the problems better, and hopefully we can walk you through getting your environment running. Your feedback will help us make the final RTM installation much better.





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