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TFS to Visual Studio Team Services Migration Guide

Included with Visual Studio Subscriptions – For many of our developer customers, they already have Visual Studio Team Services included as a benefit of their Visual Studio (formerly known as MSDN) subscriptions! Having an ability to migrate your TFS database allows many subscribers now to take advantage of that important benefit.

Accessible anywhere – Your team members will have the flexibility they need to securely access Team Services from work, home, remote offices, or their mobile devices.

Significantly reduced administration – imagine not needing to continually monitor and administer your TFS infrastructure.

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No more manual upgrades and get updates quicker – with Team Services, upgrades are deployed nearly every three weeks and your development teams can immediately take advantage of them months before they are available in TFS updates or major releases.

Some of the main reasons that they tell us they want to migrate from Team Foundation Server to Visual Studio Team Services are: We have even noticed a transition in our customer discussions in the past year where many including large enterprises are asking about the best method for migrating to Visual Studio Team Services. You may have even heard of some stories about some of our more notable enterprise customers who have migrated and adopted Team Services.

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We have been running a Private Preview for many months now and have learned along the way how to make the Import Service even better. Our engineering teams have put a lot of work into building this service over the past year and has touched every part of our engineering organization. Our goal for your final production import is that your team will be working in TFS on a Friday and then be continuing their work in Visual Studio Team Services when they come back to work on Monday. and keeps the same ID numbers, traceability, settings, permissions personalizations, and much more.

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The difference today is that the TFS Database Import Service is a high-fidelity migration that brings over your source code history, work items, builds, etc. In the past, we have had various different options that offered a low-fidelity method for migrating your data.

I am joined by so many on the team who have been waiting on this moment! We are very excited to announce the Preview of the TFS Database Import Service for Visual Studio Team Services. It has been by far one of our more popular feature requests on User Voice as well. Since I have started in role on the Visual Studio Team Services & Team Foundation Server teams, I have been looking forward to the day that we could help TFS customers successfully migrate all of their data to our SaaS-based hosted TFS service: Visual Studio Team Services.