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Today I have decided to deploy Team Foundation Server 2008 into my production environment, and imagine what? Yeeeees I run into a lot of problems. But presumably as I'm writing this post I've managed to solve them.

So, if you want to do straightforward installations of TFS follow these steps:

Environment

• Account <domain>\tfsadmin in as regular user
• Platform: Windows Server 2008 with SP2 x86
  • .NET 3.5 installed
  • IIS installed
  • Add <domain>\tfsadmin into local admins
• SQL 2008 Standard (without SP1 !!!!)
  • Services are running under <domain>\tfsadmin
• Log in as different user with local admin privileges

TFS SP1 slipstreaming

• Create three folders on your C:\ drive
  • TFSSP1
  • TFSSP1extract
  • TFS
  • TFSwithSP1
• Download TFS SP1 from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyID=9e40a5b6-da41-43a2-a06d-3cee196bfe3d&displaylang=en
• Copy it to C:\TFSSP1
• From TFS install media copy contents from AT folder to TFS
• To extract SP1 open command prompt ant type
  C:\TFSSP1\TFS90SP1-KB949786-ENU /extract:C:\TFSSP1Extract
• To merge installation with SP1 type:
  msiexec /a C:\TFS\vs_setup.msi /p C:\TFSSP1Extract\TFS90sp1-KB949786.msp TARGETDIR=C:\TFSwithSP1

Than simply run setup from TFSwithSP1. From there you'll find that installation is pretty much simple. Keep in mind that you have to use TFSADMIN account during installation. Happy Teaming.