Hello,

I am looking to setup Visual Studio Team System along with TFS for my remote development team.

Does anyone have any document which can be helpful to me for setting up users, page permissions, module permissions etc…

Thanks in advance.

-A

I read this the other day and found it useful for taking my first steps into TFS:

• http://blogs.msdn.com/jasonz/archive/2009/10/21/tutorial-getting-started-with-tfs-in-vs2010.aspx

It sounds like you might already be a bit further on than that though....

your links seems interesting however i need for VSTS 2008.

i wanted to know as how in big organizations where team is located in seprate geo location and work on the same project for months and months. how do they manage...

There is something called team server proxy which lets you have long distance teams. It basically syncs with the main team server and keeps a local cache. Its important to have fast access to the team server because slow source check-ins can really affect dev productivity.

I just read this stuff today when reading about tfs2010 (on bharry's blog)

The new 2010 is supposed to be loads cheaper and major improvements so if you haven't already purchased I would hold off for a bit!

Hello,

I am looking for a solution whereby my source code does not reside in the offershore place. it needs to be on my server it self.

we have got VSTS 2008 and TFS setup so it will be dificult for us to move to 2010.

ashok854:

we have got VSTS 2008 and TFS setup

Please check on the documentation that comes with the VSTS2008 Installation disk.

ashok854:

Hello,

I am looking for a solution whereby my source code does not reside in the offershore place. it needs to be on my server it self.

we have got VSTS 2008 and TFS setup so it will be dificult for us to move to 2010.

Well if you keep it all on the main server then your offshore developers will have to deal with the lag between your  server and their office. If this is fine then you just need to open up the ports in your main servers firewall so that they can connect to your tfs.

Did you understand that with tfs proxy this is just a mirror of your main server? You would setup a tfs in their office to give them local access but there would still be the master copy on your main server for your main developers to use.

do you think if i give Terminal Service Access of my main server to remote team then it will be better and it will give more security to my Code?

how does large development works where lot of team works on same projects are architectured?

ashok854:

do you think if i give Terminal Service Access of my main server to remote team then it will be better and it will give more security to my Code?

Terminal Services traffic will be more voluminous than that of remote proxy TFS server.  Please read the documentation on remote team access using TFS.