In this post we will create a new team project collection step by step. let’s get review & installed the administer console if you still have not install/configure from previous post.

Team Project Collection

Team project collection is a group of project to manage multiple project from a single location. Let’s start with TFS Administration Console.

To create a team project collection

1. In Team Project Collections, choose Create Collection.
2. The Create Team Project Collection wizard opens.
3. Specify a name for your collection. Specify a brief description of your collection and its purpose. Choose Next.

FIG: 1.0.1 In Team Project Collections, choose Create Collection.

FIG: 1.1.2 The Create Team Project Collection wizard opens.

FIG: 1.2.3 In Name, specify a name for your collection. Under Description, you can optionally specify a brief description of your collection and its purpose. Choose Next.

FIG: 1.3.4 In SQL Server Instance, specify local/remote server name that host the database for the collection.

Check first option for creating a new database for the collection, if you have existing empty database that created before you can specify that by checking second option. Choose Next.

FIG: 1.4.5 in this step review the settings. Click Verify.

FIG: 1.5.6 in this step show verified status whether the TFS collection is ready to create or not. Click Create.

FIG: 1.6.7 the creation process starts.

FIG: 1.7.8 after completing all required process successfully the wizard finishes, Choose Close.

FIG: 1.8.9 as you can see, finally the collection is listed in the console window.

Hope this will help 🙂