I have an TFS server installation that through time has gone through upgrades from TFS 2005 to TFS 2008 and then to TFS 2010. During the lifetime of the installation a lot of projects have been created and different project templates have been used. MSF Agile 4.0, 4.1, 4.2 and 5.0. and a few MSF CMMI ones.

What I would like to do is "replace" the project template used for all these projects to use a new one common one: Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0.

I am aware that TFS project templates are used as templates for creating new projects and cannot modify the tfs projects definitions after creation.

Uptil now only the version control and build server part of TFS have been used and there are no existing work item types.

Additionally all projects and build scripts are depending on the source code paths stay the same.

As I see it I have the following options:

Create new TFS projects using the correct project template and then move/branch the source code to the new project.

  1. All code is moved to a temporary team project.
  2. The old project is deleted
  3. New project with the original name and correct process template is created
  4. Code is moved to the new team project

  5. Temporary team project is deleted

    • All the build definitions needs to be to recreated which is not an option.

    • The source code move/branch will "mess up" the versioning history

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By messing up the versioning history I mean that when you move source code it will behind the scenes do a delete + source rename on the original location and the history will still be located in the old project. This will make searching in the history difficult and if I actually delete the old project I will loose all the history before the source code move.

This is really not

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