TFS 2018 — Lesson 3: Security, Backup, Restore, Upgrade, and Troubleshooting

Learning Objectives

• Manage groups, permissions, service accounts, auditing, and access governance
• Plan backup, restore, disaster recovery, maintenance, and upgrade procedures
• Troubleshoot installation, connectivity, permissions, jobs, builds, repositories, and performance

Detailed Topics

• Manage groups: Manage groups, permissions, service accounts, auditing, and access governance
• Plan backup: Plan backup, restore, disaster recovery, maintenance, and upgrade procedures
• Troubleshoot installation: Troubleshoot installation, connectivity, permissions, jobs, builds, repositories, and performance

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

Resolve a simulated TFS incident and document recovery and corrective actions.

• 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 Security, Backup, Restore, Upgrade, and Troubleshooting in a realistic scenario and validate the result with documented evidence.