Hi Everyone,
Plan A :We were planning to Upgrade from TFS 2008 to 2012 (Migration based upgrade) in next few weeks. The actual plan was to do a Production Upgrade but since we are having challenges with the management and other dev teams to get the approval as we wanted to introduce Branching and Merging and build automation along with the Upgrade.
Since there is a delay in doing the actual Production Upgrade , we are thinking of Plan B(as below).
Question : Plan B--Can we do the cloning of the actual Production TFS 2008 server(both App tier and DB tier are on same box) and then consider the cloned one as our test server and do the Test Upgrade. Our primary goal is to find out the roadblocks/issues we come across during the Upgrade process and then convince the upper management.
Please let me know the issues( with regards to services/port issues) I may encounter if I do the Cloning of Prod TFS 2008 server or Is there a better approach to perform the same. Thanks
Regards,
Rahman.