We moved from a 3rd party hosted full TFS instance to TFS Online however we only use the work items, not source control(I prefer mercurial/git).
It was a little painfull as we had used some customisation to fields/templates. However, it was *mostly* ok (if a little time consuming). I just got the entire backlog into Excel. Did the same the TFS online, copy common fields from one excel sheet to another, publish to TFS online. This got us an easy 80-85% there. Other stuff was customised or had some other weirdness we had to look into but not too bad. We kept the old instance going while we did some sanity checks and ensured all was ok. BTW, TFSOnline is great. Love the web interface and use it instead of the VS integration. - Glav From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com] On Behalf Of Stephen Price Sent: 11 February 2014 6:57 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Re: Migrating TFS Grant, I did a migration from a one TFS server to another and it was a horrible experience. I don't recall the tool I used but I had the added complication of using a different Template on the destination server and it was trying to migrate loads of mismatching fields. The source control was ok and history seemed to work. The work items were sketchy with lots not migrated. We ended up keeping the old TFS server about in read only for reference. Good job going to the cloud, I use Visual Studio online for my own stuff and its brilliant. Shame they don't make it easier to migrate into. cheers, Stephen p.s. if you need help with it let me know ;) On Tue, Feb 11, 2014 at 1:48 PM, Grant Maw <grant....@gmail.com <mailto:grant....@gmail.com> > wrote: Thanks Anthony. We're not worried about work items, just source code and history at this point, including branches. The TFS Integration Platform is beavering away as I write this (trying it out on a test copy of the project), telling me that 176 of 335 change groups have been migrated. I guess I'll just let it run and see where it lands me. On 11 February 2014 15:40, Anthony Borton <antho...@enhancealm.com.au <mailto:antho...@enhancealm.com.au> > wrote: Hi Grant, I moved a client with around 35 team projects from an on-premises TFS up to Visual Studio Online using the TFS Integration Platform. I was pretty lucky in that they only needed the source to go up and didn't have work items to work about. The process was quite a bit more time consuming than I had planned and it was a seemingly never-ending exercise in massaging settings to get the source (with history) from each TP up to the cloud. A future TFS 2013 update should include a feature to help move data from VSO down to TFS but I haven't heard if there is anything there to help go the other way. Cheers Anthony Borton Senior ALM Trainer/Consultant Visual Studio ALM MVP Enhance ALM Pty Ltd From: ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com <mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> [mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com <mailto:ozdotnet-boun...@ozdotnet.com> ] On Behalf Of Grant Maw Sent: Tuesday, 11 February 2014 3:07 PM To: ozDotNet Subject: Migrating TFS Hi All Has anyone moved from on-premises TFS to visual studio online? We have a large solution, including branches, that needs to be pushed into the cloud as soon as possible and I'd love to hear any war stories before I start. I'm thinking about using the tool at http://tfsintegration.codeplex.com/. Cheers Grant
