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Configuring TFS – Advanced wizard

Perhaps this was asked before but I can’t find a whole lot on this, so I would appreciate some help.

Our architecture is as follows: Win 7 desktop on a domain with VS 2010. MS Sql server R2 on Win Server 2008 R2 Ent; SharePoint 2007 on Win 2003; SharePoint 2010 on Win 2008 R2 Ent; Visual Sourcesafe on yet another separate Win Server 2008 R2 Ent server. On this server I have just installed TFS and was running Advanced Config Wizard.

As I’m new to TFS all my selected options are based on intuition and perhaps common sense but Reporting Services and SharePoint aren’t working. With reporting services after I add my sql server name (and I’ve tried IP address and dns name) neither the Report Server URL nor Report Manager URL is populated. (Note: What do I need reporting services for anyway?)

So I’ve opted not to use reporting services, which as I said, I don’t know what is the benefit of it.

Next, in the SharePoint configuration, I wanted to use the existing SharePoint farm which is installed on a separate servers. Testing the Site and Administration URLs would throw an error: “The following site could not be accessed. … Either … not installed the Team Foundation Server Extensions, or Firewall… “

I suspect it is not the firewall so then the TFS Extensions. Having search that topic as well seems to point back to the TFS’s configuration, so I’m a completely at a loss.

Any ideas?

Thanks,

Risho /posted from a smartphone since employer blocks this site/

Edited: I was looking at this article http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/dd631915.aspx but I don’t have the options listed in the step-by-step solution. TFS Admin Console has this: Top tear – server name, below is Application Tear then Proxy Server, build Configuration and Logs. Expanding Application Tear shows Team Project Collections, SharePoint Web Applications, Reporting, and Lab Management.

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Answer

You have to configure the SharePoint extensions on each SharePoint machine you wish to connect to TFS. Install TFS on whichever SharePoint machine (or both, if you plan to use both). In the configuration wizard, you should have the option to configure SharePoint Extensions. Once done, you should be able to re-run the readiness checks in the Advanced Wizard on your Application Tier machine.

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