TFS 2012 Installation - TFS Sharepoint Extension (Part-3)

This is a continuation of the following posts:

• TFS 2012 Installation - Build out initial farm (Part-1).  
• TFS 2012 Installation - Adding Additional App Tier (Part-2)

The steps here illustrates the installation and configuration of TFS Extension for SharePoint (2010).  This assume you have an existing SharePoint farm you want to integrate TFS with.

1. For DOMAIN\_TFSService account, grant the following rights:
   - Add this account to the Farm Administrators group in Sharepoint- Add this to the  "Policy for Web Application" for that web app
2. Launch the tfs_sharePointExtensions.exe file from the SharePoint Extensions folder to install only the Team Foundation Server Extensions for Sharepoint Products.  NOTE:  If your SharePoint consist of multiple servers, you will need to perform the first SharePoint extension install on the server that hosts the Central Admin.

Provide the TFS server url and the SharePoint Web App URL

When you are done with the initial server, continue to install TFS SharePoint Extension on the remain SharePoint WFE server(s).

 Once you are done with the above, you will need to configure the TFS server to talk to SharePoint:

1. Launch the TFS Admin Console from the TFS Server

2. Under Application Tier, select  SharePoint Web Applications

3. Click Add under the SharePoint Web Applications category and provide the info as shown below: