{"id":8021,"date":"2008-02-06T09:22:00","date_gmt":"2008-02-06T09:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/bharry\/2008\/02\/06\/installing-tfs-2008-on-windows-2008\/"},"modified":"2018-08-14T00:27:33","modified_gmt":"2018-08-14T00:27:33","slug":"installing-tfs-2008-on-windows-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/installing-tfs-2008-on-windows-2008\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing TFS 2008 on Windows 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our dear friend Etienne has written up his <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/geekswithblogs.net\/etiennetremblay\/archive\/2008\/02\/05\/windows-2008--tfs-2008-it-works-but.aspx\">experiences installing TFS 2008 on Windows 2008<\/a>.&nbsp; It&#8217;s definitely more complex than installing it on Windows 2003.&nbsp; The issues revolve around our uncertainty of the status of WSS on Windows 2008 at the time we were shipping TFS 2008.&nbsp; Etienne&#8217;s blog post details the steps he went through to get it installed and working.&nbsp; Learning from what he has done can save you time and trouble until we get a chance to simplify the experience.\nThe thing Etienne didn&#8217;t cover, that I expect many customers will face, is upgrading a Windows 2003 server with TFS on it to Windows 2008.&nbsp; Unfortunately, this will be even trickier.&nbsp; The stumbling blocks include&#8230;&nbsp; You will have to upgrade TFS 2005 (if that&#8217;s what you have) to TFS 2008 because TFS 2005 doesn&#8217;t support Windows 2008.&nbsp; You can&#8217;t upgrade the OS and have TFS keep working.&nbsp; At best you can upgrade to OS and reinstall TFS in some series of steps.&nbsp; At worst, you will need to back everything up, flatten the box and reinstall the OS, restore the TFS databases and then reinstall TFS.&nbsp; I will make sure we have some good instructions for all of this and then point you at them.<\/p>\n<p>Brian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our dear friend Etienne has written up his experiences installing TFS 2008 on Windows 2008.&nbsp; It&#8217;s definitely more complex than installing it on Windows 2003.&nbsp; The issues revolve around our uncertainty of the status of WSS on Windows 2008 at the time we were shipping TFS 2008.&nbsp; Etienne&#8217;s blog post details the steps he went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":244,"featured_media":14617,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[5],"class_list":["post-8021","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-tfs"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Our dear friend Etienne has written up his experiences installing TFS 2008 on Windows 2008.&nbsp; It&#8217;s definitely more complex than installing it on Windows 2003.&nbsp; The issues revolve around our uncertainty of the status of WSS on Windows 2008 at the time we were shipping TFS 2008.&nbsp; Etienne&#8217;s blog post details the steps he went [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8021","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/244"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8021"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8021\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8021"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8021"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/bharry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8021"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}