Deploying Windows Services from TFS

As part of our initiative to automate code deployments, we needed to move windows services from TFS to our test servers. The way we did this before was to have a build stage all the files and then either stop the services on the destination machine manually, copy files, and restart the services, or use …

Deploying to Multiple Locations in TFS 2010

This is just a forewarning, I am not an expert in the ways of TFS. I’ve only been working with TFS in general for about a year, and TFS 2010 for about 2 months or so. That being said, if anyone has recommendations on a better way to do this, please point me in the …

Dependency Replication in TFS 2010

I’m not sure exactly how many people do this, but it seems like there isn’t much documentation out there on how to do this exactly. So after lots of trial and error I’ve finally gotten dll replication to work for our TFS environment. So, first i’ll go over the general overview of what needs to …