{"id":7987,"date":"2017-04-11T17:59:00","date_gmt":"2017-04-11T17:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/premier_developer\/?p=7987"},"modified":"2019-03-05T15:18:55","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T22:18:55","slug":"thinking-about-moving-to-tfs-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/premier-developer\/thinking-about-moving-to-tfs-2017\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinking about moving to TFS 2017?"},"content":{"rendered":"

In this post, Application Development Managers,\u00a0 Sheldon Ledbetter<\/a> and DeWayla White<\/a>, share a few of their favorite things about TFS 2017.<\/p>\n

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Thinking about moving to Team Foundation Server 2017?<\/h3>\n

Here are just a few highlights regarding improvements to the latest release:<\/h3>\n

\"\"One of the first things you\u2019ll notice is the collection page has been improved with a more personalized experience displaying all of your favorites, projects, work and pull item requests.\u00a0 You will find this has immediate individual benefits for each developer based on his\/her approach.<\/p>\n

Next, you\u2019ll find the version control has been improved with more granular permissions.\u00a0 This allows the separation of task, for example, create, delete or rename of a repo.<\/p>\n

Work item tracking improvements now see the picker MRU list and search results only for returned members of the configured group of the collection.<\/p>\n

Build improvements now allow for a build definition <\/i>to roll back to a previous version by clicking on the History tab.\u00a0 You may also disable the source sync and GIT checkout while the build agent will support <\/i><\/b>GIT shallow clone.\u00a0 You will also have control over the major version of a task during build\/release.<\/p>\n

Package management has a new feature called release views. This feature will allow for greater integration within a continuous release cycle, providing the flexibility for supporting each published version.<\/p>\n

Cross platform support now includes xcpretty formatting for xcodebuild output.\u00a0 Before you had to use xctool for test results.<\/p>\n

The ability to run tests built with VS 2017 using the Deploy Test Agent and Run Functional Tests tasks has been added.<\/p>\n

Release management has been improved with the support for variable groups. <\/i><\/b>With this update you can group your variables and their values for use across multiple release definitions.<\/p>\n

The new update also includes Elasticsearch 2.4.1.\u00a0 This provides for greater speed of search\/scaling across different languages.<\/p>\n

Code Insights has been improved to include SonarQube integration for MSBuild tasks.\u00a0 <\/i><\/b>An additional feature involves notifications activity in your Team Services projects and users will also have their own account-level access.<\/p>\n

Updates to notifications will make it easier to manage what notifications you and your teams receive.<\/p>\n

And last, for users of the Process Template Editor you\u2019ll be happy to see support included in TFS <\/i><\/b>2017.\u00a0 With this extension, you can view and update your process templates as well as work on global lists\/item types.<\/p>\n

Resources<\/h4>\n