A day in the life - installing Orcas Beta 2
Removed (in this order)
Started approx 10:10AM (multitasking between 2 machines)
Microsoft ASP.NET Futures (May 07)
Silverlight Tools Alpha for Orcas
Silverlight
Expression Blend 3 May Preview
MSDN Library for Orcas (did a full uninstall)
Orcas TFS Build
Orcas TFS (received note that the databases are not removed)
Orcas Team Explorer
Orcas Team Suite (full uninstall)
Deleted all databases in SQLServer starting with TFS (did this while Team Suite was uninstalling)
had to restart after removing Team Suite
Removed Orcas Premier Partner Edition?
In Program Files removed following directories
Visual Studio 9.0
VS 9.0 TFS
In windows framework, removed v3.5 directory
Completed around 11am
Started the installation process
VSTS Team Suite (started around 11:04, finished around 12:00) - had to reboot
Installed the full MSDN Docs (2GB over the network). I expected this to take time and it did. Completed around 13:00
No problems at this stage.
Downloaded all the Silverlight and ASP.NET Futures bits while the MSDN Installation was busy (best site was http://silverlight.net/GetStarted)
Started to install TFS (the install screen shows the different things to install. Many people got confused about the Build Server install process in TFS05).
At some point it wanted to configure WSS (as I already had WSS on my machine). If you do have WSS installed it can configure for you as part of the install.
First Hiccup - At this stage, I went to Sharepoint Config (v3) and had some strange errors like "the website declined to show this webpage". This appeared to be due to some security settings in Sharepoint and IIS, as well some Sharepoint sites that were not created properly. After removing some of these bad Sharepoint Websites and checking the security I was able to create a new WSS v3 site. I needed this for the TFS install (I need to tell TFS which WSS v3 to use to host documents, reports etc)
Second Hiccup - Continued to install TFS and then got some errors on Reporting Services. Aborted the installation. Similar error to above when browsing the RS Website. Also got an error about " No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it".
2pm. Off to a meeting
3:20pm - back from a meeting
After messing with some of Reporting Services config I was able to get past these RS errors. This was frustrating.
Reporting Services appears to be working. Also went in and deleted reports etc from previous Orcas TFS install.
3:35pm Started TFS Install again. Third minor hiccup. Had an issue due to previous aborted installation. Removed the databases from SQL Management Studio, removed the TFS Website from IIS and removed the TFS directories from Program Files.
3:45pm Ran again, Only complaint from the check was my machine speed - but I could continue.
3:50pm TFS is installed (will need to create a project later to make sure)
3:54 TFS Build installed
Installed WSS Extensions (was not sure if I needed this). The note mentioned something about needing it if you configured WSS manually.
3:56 WSS Extensions installed. Did not seem to need it - I think?
3:57 Install Team Explorer - took some time to "extract files".
4:35pm Team Explorer installed (that was long). Checked with some internal guys and this is a known issue in Beta 2. Will be resolved in RTM apparently.
4:37pm - ASP.NET Futures July Ed, Silverlight 1.1 Alpha and Tools for VS Installed. Nice quick installs.
4:41 Run VS08 - does it "configuring environment for first use" thing
4:43. Creating TFS08 Team Project.
4:45 Success.
I am sure I will find some other bits to install in the next few days.
In summary - The VS uninstall/install was smooth. VSTS had some issues due to issues with WSS and Reporting Services. I did not check WSS/RS before I started, so I have no idea if there were issues before. My personal view is that that these issues were present before I started. In the last month I have been using this machine for some other stuff and have messed around with IIS settings (security, app pools etc) and could have had an effect. But I guess I will not know for sure.
I still need to test all the different project types etc. If I hit an issue I will blog it.