Administrative tasks quick reference
TFS 2017
Use this index to quickly access information about tasks for managing Azure DevOps on-premises servers.
Install, upgrade, and general admin tasks
- Install get started
- Install SQL Server
- Upgrade get started
- Upgrade TFS Express
- Open the Administration Console
Server-level administrative tasks
Members of the Azure DevOps Server Administrators or Team Foundation Server Administrators group are tasked with server maintenance and configuring resources for all project collections. They also can perform all tasks to administer projects, collections and server instances.
Many tasks are performed from the Azure DevOps Server Administration Console. The main task they perform from the web portal is to set access levels for a user or security group.
Manage users and access
- Add administration console users
- Add server-level administrators
- Change access levels
- Set up groups for use in Azure DevOps deployments
Server configuration
- Change cache settings for an application-tier server
- Change SSH Settings
- Configure an SMTP server
- Customize email for alerts and feedback requests
- View or change the Public URL
Server maintenance
Manage databases
- Back up and restore
- Configure a backup schedule and plan
- Understand backing up Azure DevOps on-premises
SQL Server reporting
- Add reports to a project
- Manage the data warehouse and analysis services cube
- Change the service account or password for SQL Server Reporting Services
SharePoint product integration (valid for TFS 2017 and earlier versions)
Project collection administrative tasks
Members of the Project Collection Administrators group are tasked with configuring resources for all projects defined for a collection. They also can perform all tasks to add projects, manage projects, and manage permissions for the collection, a project, or an object.
Before you add a a project or project collection, review the information provided in About projects and scaling your organization.
Add and manage project collections
- Add a project
- Add a project collection
- Delete/detach a project collection
- Add collection-level administrators
- Manage collection-level notifications
- Move a project collection
- Open the Administration Console
- Split a project collection
Boards/Process and work tracking customizations
Pipelines, Build and release, Agent pools, Deployment pools
Project administrative tasks
Members of the Project Administrators group are tasked with configuring resources for a project and managing permissions at the project-level. Members of the Project Collection Administrators group can configure project and team settings as well. See also Get started as an administrator.
Manage users and permissions
- Add users to a project
- Add project administrators
- Change individual permissions, grant select access to specific functions
- Grant or restrict access to select features
- Set build and release permissions
Manage projects
- Change service visibility
- Connect to projects
- Configure a project portal
- Configure service hooks
- Delete a project
- Rename a project
- Restore a project
- Save project data
Manage teams and project configuration
Pipelines, Build and release, Agent Pools
- Manage Agent queues and agent pools
- Manage service connections
- Manage deployment pools and groups
- Set retention policies
Repos, Code, version control
- Create additional Git repos
- Manage repository permissions
- Manage branch policies
- Add TFVC Check-In Policies
- Manage TFVC file types