If you want to install Team Foundation Server with the least amount of preliminary work, use the basic configuration, which comes with SQL Server Express. This way, the installation wizard configures everything for you.
With the basic configuration of Team Foundation Server, you can track bugs, tasks, and other work items. You can put files under version control, and use Team Web Access to log and resolve bugs. However, you will not be able to configure reporting or SharePoint with the basic configuration.
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If you are installing Team Foundation Server on a server operating system, you can always add reporting or SharePoint later. If you want reporting and SharePoint right from the start, use one of the other Team Foundation Server installation options listed below. |
You can install Team Foundation Server in many different ways, but it’s all the same product. Use the scenario that most closely matches your team’s needs.
- Install Team Foundation Server
You can install Team Foundation Server and all its prerequisites on a single server. This scenario focuses on new installations of prerequisite software, but you can use existing installations as long as you install all the software on the same computer.
- How to: Install Team Foundation Server Using the Advanced Configuration
You can install Team Foundation Server and all its prerequisites across more than one server or by customizing any of the default options. For example, you might want reporting, but not a project portal. This scenario focuses on using your existing infrastructure for prerequisite software and incorporating other server products that offer high-value integration with Team Foundation Server, such as SharePoint Server 2010.
- Upgrade Team Foundation Server
You can upgrade from an earlier release of Team Foundation Server or the beta or RC release of TFS 2012. You can also use the upgrade guidance to upgrade TFS 2012 to one of its update releases.
- How to: Create a Team Foundation Server Farm (High Availability)
You can add an application-tier server to an existing deployment of Team Foundation Server to build redundancy into your deployment or to restore a failed application-tier server.
Add a build server or proxy to your ALM environment. Integrate Project Server or add an installation of SharePoint Products to your Team Foundation Server deployment.
- Install Team Foundation Build Service
Team Foundation Build Service can help you automatically build and share code.
- How to: Install Team Foundation Proxy and Set Up a Remote Site
You might save bandwidth by installing Team Foundation Server Proxy, which caches version control files so that developers working at remote locations don’t have to repeatedly download the same files.
- How to: Add Project Server to Team Foundation Server
If you have team members that use Project Server, you can use Team Foundation Server Extensions for Project Server to integrate Project Server with Team Foundation Server.
- How to: Install Remote SharePoint Products for Team Foundation Server
If you don’t want to run a portal on the same computer as Team Foundation Server, you can use Team Foundation Server Extensions for SharePoint Products to add SharePoint Products to Team Foundation Server. New for this version of the product, you can use this application to install SharePoint Foundation 2010 or add SharePoint to your already installed deployment of Team Foundation Server.
Verify that your operating system and hardware meet the requirements for Team Foundation Server. For client operating systems, you can use Windows 7 or Windows 8, 32-bit or 64-bit. For servers, you must use 64-bit.
Run the Team Foundation Sever install (tfs_server.exe) from the product DVD, and then use the basic configuration wizard to configure your installation. 
