I am considering upgrading my TFS 2012 Update 2, SQL Server 2008 R2 & Windows 2008 R2 environment to a new server running TFS 2013 Update 3, SQL Server 2014 and Windows 2012 R2.
I'd like to know which databases I need to restore onto the new 2012R2 SQL Server from the existing environment. The problem is that my current TFS 2012 environment was previously upgraded from a TFS 2010 system and has a long list of databases that are not included in the list of databases to restore as recommended by the migration guide.
The migration guide indicates that you only need to migrate databases:
Tfs_Configuration
Tfs_Collection
Tfs_Warehouse
Tfs_Analysis
ReportServer
ReportServer_TempDB
WSS_Config
WSS_Content
WSS_AdminContent
However, my TFS database also includes the following databses:
Application_Registry_Service_DB_cd4cbde7f4ec4019853c4dbb48c44c1f
Bdc_Service_DB_ea1b6d9bd90440ea801cf3503289f93d
Managed Metadata Service_49677baee5a840d7a24b6d836a07b256
PerformancePoint Service Application_f62780bb5d8f493bab602bc4388bc553
ProjectServer_Archive
ProjectServer_Draft
ProjectServer_Published
ProjectServer_Reporting
ReportServer
ReportServerTempDB
Search_Service_Application_CrawlStoreDB_756080f89fc74ba58a9788c4a5a6eec3
Search_Service_Application_DB_42e59afa56c640a4bce8a5f225aba9df
Search_Service_Application_PropertyStoreDB_6e20776873e445238b6a1f692514d294
Secure_Store_Service_DB_bf0800cf677548148eb3c547df67fd1e
SessionStateService_e2a9b8146984416cb9af47d031345c45
SharePoint_AdminContent_4406a0b2-b63b-4b3d-bb4b-cc4a30296b3c
SharePoint_Config
StateService_5da9f2ecff0342c9b0839971c93e3266
Tfs_Collection
Tfs_Configuration
Tfs_Warehouse
WebAnalyticsServiceApplication_ReportingDB_a998229e-46c8-45e2-8de9-4b249853f9ae
WebAnalyticsServiceApplication_StagingDB_5f22c6f4-b14b-4e4e-98be-6546cb054970
WordAutomationServices_a15e24c86d00461b8237aba297ba13fd
WSS_Content
WSS_Logging
WSS_Search_Server01
Does anyone know what these additional database are, what they do and, most importantly, if they are required or not? I'd like to keep the new environment as clean as possible and if the additional databases are not required, I'd prefer to not restore them into the new database server.
Any advice will be very appreciated.
Thanks,
Cossy