TFS 2018 — Lesson 1: TFS 2018 Architecture, Planning, and Installation

Learning Objectives

• Explain TFS architecture, application tiers, data tiers, collections, projects, and dependencies
• Assess topology, identity, SQL Server, networking, capacity, availability, and upgrade requirements
• Install and validate TFS 2018 with appropriate accounts, certificates, and configuration

Detailed Topics

• Explain TFS architecture: Explain TFS architecture, application tiers, data tiers, collections, projects, and dependencies
• Assess topology: Assess topology, identity, SQL Server, networking, capacity, availability, and upgrade requirements
• Install and validate TFS 2018 with appropriate accounts: Install and validate TFS 2018 with appropriate accounts, certificates, and configuration

Guided Demonstration

1. Review the requirement, environment, dependencies, roles, risks, and expected outcome.
2. Demonstrate the relevant configuration, analysis, code, or administration workflow step by step.
3. Capture settings, outputs, logs, screenshots, calculations, or test evidence.
4. Compare the observed result with the stated acceptance criteria.

Hands-On Activity

Create a TFS deployment plan and validate prerequisites for a production-style environment.

• Document assumptions and the planned sequence before making changes.
• Complete the activity and preserve evidence of normal and exception behavior.
• Record issues, corrective actions, and reusable operational or development notes.

Troubleshooting Focus

• Separate symptoms from causes and collect evidence before applying a fix.
• Check configuration, permissions, data, dependencies, capacity, connectivity, and recent changes.
• Validate rollback, recovery, support ownership, and user or business impact.

Validation Checklist

• The requirement and expected outcome are clear.
• The selected configuration, design, query, code, or process is documented.
• Normal, boundary, failure, security, and operational conditions are reviewed.
• The result is supported by evidence and the next improvement is prioritized.

Lesson Outcome

Learners can explain and apply TFS 2018 Architecture, Planning, and Installation in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.