Upgrade your TFS administration skills to TFS 2017 today

With the release of Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2017 announced at the Connect(); // 2016 conference in mid-November, organisations are now looking at upgrading to the latest version.

The new version of TFS brings many major benefits to teams including:

  • Package Management

    Create and manage private NuGet feeds.

  • Code Search

    Search all the code across your project collection easily.

  • Agile planning improvements

    new form, following work items, live updates, better notifications, …

  • Git improvements

    Hugely upgraded pull request experience, iterative reviews, squash merge, …

  • Build improvements

    Java build templates, Xamarin build tasks, Docker support, …

  • Release management improvement

    Support for ARM templates, task groups, manual approval task, scheduled releases, …

  • Test improvements

    10X more compact test results storage, lots of manual testing improvements, test reporting and traceability improvements, …

To help TFS administrators upskill their knowledge to help plan, upgrade and configure TFS 2017, we’ve created a brand new course specifically for existing administrators.

Introducing Updating Your TFS Administration Skills for TFS 2017, a 2-day training course for experienced TFS administrators.

At the completion of this course, attendees will be able to:

  • enable new features in TFS 2017 as required
  • plan their migration to the latest version of TFS
  • configure Package Management and set security on feeds
  • install, configure, and optimise the new Code Search feature
  • troubleshoot issues with Code Search
  • understand the latest improvements to Build and Release from an admin perspective
  • install extensions from the Visual Studio Marketplace
  • understand how to install internally developed TFS extensions
  • understand the new process template model
  • implement work item customisations
  • understand and configure new permissions

Find out more about this course and review the course outline now. (PDF)

If you’re new to TFS administration, we also have a 4-day “TFS 2017 Configuration and Administration” course featuring comprehensive coverage of all administration tasks.