After a week of downloading the new beta version of Visual Studio 2008 and Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2008 as part of Visual Studio Team System 2008, finally I have a chance to try these new babies. On this post, I will show what's new on installation in this new version of TFS rather than step by step guide on how to install. The installation documentation that comes with the installation image or DVD is doing a really great job for that. You can also download the installation guide from here.
In TFS 2005, we need three user account (can be AD or local account, depending on your environment) to install it. They are for installation, web service and report. In TFS 2008 however, the amount of user account that we need is only two. One for installation and the other one for service and reports.
There's an option in TFS 2008 to run the TFS web service under System account instead of dedicated user account.
On the reporting services account, if we use dedicated user account instead of system account to run the TFS web services, we can use this web service account on reporting service. However, if we choose to use system account to run TFS web service then we will need to specify dedicated user account to run the reporting service.
In TFS 2008, we can specify which account to run the Windows Sharepoint Services account since there an option to have the installation of Windows Sharepoint Services integrated with TFS Installation rather than having to install it separately. However, we can also have the Windows Sharepoint Services installed separately or using the existing Windows Sharepoint Services in TFS 2008.
Once we have finished specifying all the account needed, we can sit back and relax waiting for the installation to finish.
