TFS 2017 documentation

Collaborate on software development through source control, work tracking, and continuous integration and delivery.

About TFS 2017

Overview

• What is Team Foundation Server?
• Get started

Concept

• Tools and clients

Administration guide

Overview

• Administrative tasks quick reference

How-To Guide

• Open the admin console
• Manage project collections
• Manage SharePoint integration

Work tracking

Overview

• About work items
• About Backlogs & Agile project management

Concept

• Choose a process
• Agile process workflow

How-To Guide

• Project and Storyboarding

Team Foundation version control (TFVC)

Overview

• What is Azure Repos?
• Compare Git and TFVC

Quickstart

• Share your code using Visual Studio

How-To Guide

• Suspend work and manage shelvesets
• Use Source Control Explorer to manage files

Git

Quickstart

• Clone an existing Git repository
• Get started with Git & Visual Studio
• Connect to your Git repos with SSH
• Review and merge code with pull requests
• See more >

Build and Release

Concept

• What is Azure Pipelines?
• Use Azure Pipelines
• Key concepts for user new to Azure Pipelines
• Classic release pipelines

Quickstart

• Create your first pipeline
• Clone or import a pipeline
• Customize your pipeline

Test

Overview

• About Test

Quickstart

• Create test plans and suites
• Create manual test cases
• Run manual tests

Tutorial

• Test different configurations

Training

• Microsoft Test Manager

Set alerts or notifications

Concept

• About notifications

How-To Guide

• Set personal notifications
• Set team notifications

Reporting and SharePoint integration

Overview

• Team dashboards
• Reporting Services reports
• About SharePoint Integration

How-To Guide

• Create work tracking charts
• Add reports to a team project
• Create status and trend reports from a work item query
• Manage the data warehouse and analysis services cube
• SharePoint integration

Security, Permissions, & Access

Concept

• About permissions, access, and security groups

Quickstart

• View permissions

How-To Guide

• Add users to a team or project
• Request change in permissions
• Add or remove users or security groups

Customize work tracking

Overview

• On-premises XML process model
• Microsoft Project Mapping
• Configure Features Wizard

How-To Guide

• Add or modify a field
• Add or modify a work item type

Reference

• XML element reference

Extend and Integrate

Reference

• Modal dialog
• REST Clients
• REST API Overview for TFS 2015, 2017, and 2018