Microsoft Team Foundation Server Integration Set Up

Microsoft Team Foundation Server requires additional steps for successful connection.  ScrumDesk TFS connector is able to write changes directly to TFS or read the changes made in TFS using TFS web services.

The problem is to catch a notification about the changes which occurred in TFS databases. For successfully listening to TFS changes, some TFS Event Handler service must be installed.

Scrum for Team System

ScrumDesk Hub requires Scrum for Team System (by Conchango) to be installed on TFS machine.

Scrum for Team System is the template that adds Scrum support into Microsoft TFS.

Architecture

TFS connector set up overview

Microsoft Visual Team Foundation Server notify our TFS Event Handler WebService about the project's artifact changes. The change description is written into Windows MessageQueue. We are using MessageQueue because TFS changes will be reliably processed by ScrumDesk Hub even the Hub is not running.

User mappings

Hub supports mapping of ScrumDesk user accounts to TFS accounts. This way you can use different login names in ScrumDesk and different login name in Microsoft TFS.

Detailed steps to set up TFS connector is available in How To Set Up TFS Synchronization.