What is a TFS build server?

Team Foundation Server (TFS) is an ALM product from Microsoft which provides the capabilities for an end-to-end development and testing using Work Item Management, Project Planning (Waterfall or Scrum), Version Control, Build/Release (Deploy) and Testing capabilities.

What is Team Foundation Server used for?

Team Foundation Server (Microsoft TFS) helps manage teams and their code. It’s because TFS offers a combo of version control, issue tracking, and application lifecycle management.

What is the difference between TFS and Jira?

TFS is an application life-cycle management tool whereas Jira is a simple issue tracking tool, and many features of TFS such as source control, automatic builds are not supported in Jira where we need to use Bamboo, BitBucket for source control repository.

What do you need to know about Team Foundation Server?

Team Foundation Server (commonly abbreviated to TFS) is a collaboration platform. You Collaborate different phases of Microsoft’s application life cycle such as source control, team build , project tracking ,testing ,data collection and reporting, team project portal and shared service.

How to configure a TFS build server?

Install and Configure the TFS Build Service. When you configure a build server, your first task is to install and configure the TFS build service. As part of this process, you’ll need to: Install the TFS build service and configure a service account. Any build tasks, including deployment, will run using the identity of the build service account.

How does Team Foundation service implement build automation?

During the initial configuration phase, the Build Service Configuration Wizard uses the Windows Live ID to gain access to TFS Preview and establish a mapping between the Project Collection and the build server. Subsequently, you need to provide the service account credentials for either a domain or a local user account.

Is the team Foundation Server 2010 build agent compatible?

The Team Foundation Server 2010 build agent and controller are not compatible with Team Foundation Service on Azure Preview. You must use the build server software that’s part of Team Foundation Server 2012. Subscribe to TFS Preview. Identify the URL to your Project Collection on TFS Preview.