Team Foundation Server 2008 Install

With the up coming future place in IT for TFS 2008, you might run into an issue installing this on Virtual PC 2007. I have not had the chance to test this on Virtual Server 2005 R2. I kept getting error 28002. an unknown error has occurred. Install log is pretty clean from what I could find.

















Make sure you follow the install guide from microsoft. http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=ff12844f-398c-4fe9-8b0d-9e84181d9923&displaylang=en
Here is a summarized list for an install.





Single Server Install

1. Create TFSSERVICE, TFSSETUP, TFSREPORTS domain users


2. Install Windows 2003 /2008 and join to domain


3. Grant TFSSERVICE and TFSSETUP users to the administrators group


4. Login in as TFSSETUP


5. Install SQL Server 2005 Standard or Enterprise


6. I would install all the services but notifications services (Select do not configure reporting services)


7. Install SQL Server SP2


8. Reboot


9. Install TFS 2008 with Sharepoint 3

I didn't get error 28002 installing on a server. It might be that Virtual PC 2007 does act differently then Virtual Server 2005 R2.

I found this nice MSI logging registry key to enable verbose logging.
Thanks to this blog: http://weblogs.asp.net/aaronschnieder/archive/2008/02/14/tfs-2008-installation-escapades-amp-errors.aspx

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Policies\Microsoft\Windows\Installer]
"EnableAdminTSRemote"=dword:00000001
"Logging"="voicewarmup"