Thursday, March 17, 2011

Installing TFS 2010 on a SQL Instance

When installing Team Foundation Server 2010 on a SQL Instance today, I ran into a couple of issues that are related to the SQL Browser service.  If the SQL browser service is running, you only need to specify the server and instance name, as “sqlservername\instancename”.  If the browser service is not running, you should specify the server name and port number, as “sqlservername, portnumber”.  The value in the screenshot below did NOT work until I removed the “\tfs” value.

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