Greg? Where are you? This is your cue.
On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 1:11 PM, David Kean <[email protected]>wrote: > (We code a lot J) > > > > As a matter of interest, by "old" stuff what are we referring to? > Stephen/Grant what technologies/versions are you working with? > > > > *From:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *On Behalf Of *Stephen Price > *Sent:* Tuesday, February 11, 2014 8:50 PM > > *To:* ozDotNet > *Subject:* Re: Migrating TFS > > > > Unfortunately, I agree. > > > > I do see some work done on things like ASP.Net (in an MVC focused world). > It would be nice if they did focus on the old stuff as much as the new but > I guess they have to balance things. No point in supporting old things that > no one uses any more. > > Software moves so fast, they invent things faster than anyone can learn > it. The bleeding edge hurts, always having to solve problems no one has hit > before. The old stuff is boring and has been done to death. > > That said its the boring stuff that makes up 80% of the code so you can't > ignore it. > > > > Microsoft, if you are listening, you have some damaged reputation that > needs repairing. Do you even code? (hehe. I was going to write do you even > lift?) > > > > They need to speak with Greg K, I'm sure he has a few things to say about > the matter. ;) > > > > > > On Wed, Feb 12, 2014 at 12:42 PM, Grant Maw <[email protected]> wrote: > > Update : the TFS Integration tool has proven to be completely useless. > It just doesn't do what it says on the tin, not in this case anyway. Even > when I could get it "sort of" working it kept throwing inexplicable > exceptions. > > I'm migrating the current cut of the source code manually and recreating > my branches. We'll lose our history, but better that than wasting days on > end fighting with these 2nd rate tools. > > If Visual Studio itself wasn't the best IDE out there, we would migrate > away to other platforms I think. Developer support in general just isn't > good enough within Microsoft any longer, and unless you are working with > the latest shiny new thing they don't seem to care. > > > > On 12 February 2014 09:18, Grant Maw <[email protected]> wrote: > > Thanks all for the responses. Ran a test yesterday and it failed due to > a one file in our project which it kept getting stuck on, trying over and > over again to process this file but it kept on failing. > > I removed this file from the project (it was non-essential and we can > re-add it again later if we need to), and tried again. This time it ran > through without errors and told me that it had finished, after about 10 > seconds! Needless to say that nothing was transferred. > > It seems I have more reading to do on this. But yes, I am also a bit > mystified at why they don't make it easier to migrate to the cloud > environment. Surely that would have to have been one of these first things > they considered. Wouldn't it? > > > > > > On 12 February 2014 05:31, Paul Glavich <[email protected]> > wrote: > > 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:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *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 <[email protected]> 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 <[email protected]> > 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:* [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] *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 > > > > > > > > > > >
