Team Foundation Server Switchover
So at work we started with a Team Foundation Server with 30gigs of space. Figured that would be decent, but over a year of using it I found I had to constantly try to prune it to retrieve space, highly aggravating for a server that is supposed to keep every version of every file we ever work on ever. :/ So about 3 months ago we finally got a new server, beefier with 450 gigs of space all for our development work.
Unfortunately the first time I fussed with it, nothing worked, so I gave up and went back to the old server. Over the past two weeks I've been prepping it, imaged it so if anything went wrong I could start over, and finally over the weekend I got everything ready up to the point of actually migrating the data.
Yesterday I did the file migration. I followed the instructions in this doc precisely: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms404869.aspx but I encountered problem after problem.
First the new server I had updated to SP3 of 2005, but the old one was sp1. gah, ok, simple enough, updated the old server to sp3.
Next I discovered that I had used sql enterprise on the old one, but I wanted to conserve licenses so I had gone with standard on the new one, thinking I didn't need some of the features from enterprise. Well I didn't, but it created additional complications.
As I was going through the doc, I kept veering further and further away from the instructions because things just weren't working. Anyways, long story short, I got it all working.
After it was all said and done, I then wanted to figure out a way how to point our workspaces to the new teamdev, since we didn't use the same name. I couldn't find anything online, and I didn't want to connect and recheck out everything, but this command line worked!
tf workspaces /s:http://NewTeamDevServerName:8080
Its working smoothly now. :)