I spent like a whole day installing Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server (MOSS) as a prerequisite for installing TFS, never mind all the other configurations I had to do.
I finally and while installing TFS, find out, suprise!!!! TFS cannot be installed on a Domain Controller. That is so nice, this new feature that Microsoft added to TFS is just awesome. How often do you get to waste your time configuring and preparing and finally you get an elegant message saying "Oh and one more thing, please note that you cannot install our product, good luck". They could have made it clearer in the documentation (it is there but for some reason I missed it). I mean I read the documentation before installing, but I think it would be nice to read the "don't proceed because you cannot install" before reading the whole thing. And what a smart decision by Microsoft to make it impossible to install their product before buying a new Server that hosts their product (windows server) which you also have to buy. So in short, if you want to do it you'll have to pay. I say scr*w them, I am switching to Subversion.
I finally and while installing TFS, find out, suprise!!!! TFS cannot be installed on a Domain Controller. That is so nice, this new feature that Microsoft added to TFS is just awesome. How often do you get to waste your time configuring and preparing and finally you get an elegant message saying "Oh and one more thing, please note that you cannot install our product, good luck". They could have made it clearer in the documentation (it is there but for some reason I missed it). I mean I read the documentation before installing, but I think it would be nice to read the "don't proceed because you cannot install" before reading the whole thing. And what a smart decision by Microsoft to make it impossible to install their product before buying a new Server that hosts their product (windows server) which you also have to buy. So in short, if you want to do it you'll have to pay. I say scr*w them, I am switching to Subversion.
5 comments:
You don't need to install the team foundation server to get source control.
You can install Microsoft SourceSafe as a standalone product and really the last version of VSS is more reliable than the previous ones but the problem that it has accumulated bad reputation.
Come on, VSS is cr*p compared to real source control products. Forget the fact that it keeps crashing, forget it's shortcomings when it comes to excluding certain files from source control, just look at the features it does NOT have: Branching, Tagging, Properties, etc... Compared to the real deal like Subversion, it is nothing. My opinion is reinforced by how Microsoft compares VSS to TFS.
Why don't You just install some real CSM like Subversion? Not only it's free, dead easy to install and set up, but also better then TFS... Do You really need all that bloat that comes with TFS?
I have been using subversion for a while now, ever since I dumped TFS ;)
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