Team Foundation Server best Practice Analyzer ... It has finally shipped!
The TFS BPA has finally shipped and can be downloaded from here. This has been a mamoth effort and many of the TFS BPA team undertook the project after-hours ... guys you "rock".
The Team Foundation Server Best Practices Analyzer (TFS BPA) is a diagnostic tool that performs the following functions:
- Gathers configuration information from a Team Foundation Server deployment
- Performs specific tests on the Team Foundation Server deployment
- Analyzes the collected information according to specific rules and reports the findings as information, warning, or error messages
- Provides links to articles to resolve warning and error messages
Use the Team Foundation Server BPA to perform the following tasks:
- Proactively verify that the Team Foundation Server configuration is set according to recommended best practices
- Determine configurations that differ from default, recommended, or required settings
- Identify the source of problems in an unhealthy Team Foundation Server deployment