TFS 2012 to TFS 2018 Migration/Upgrade Path

Question

Currently I have lots of projects that are in TFS 2012 and would like to migrate them to TFS 2018, maintaining source code history as well as WIT status if possible. I reali

Answer 1

One can now upgrade from 2012 to TFS 2018 since the release Update 2 earlier this year. See the documentation for the updated upgrade paths.

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/tfs-server/upgrade/get-started

A key challenge was migrating from older XAML builds to the new builds, but with the release of Update 2 and later you can utilize the XAML build controllers as they are now supported. See the compatibility guide for details.

Plan for downtime - this upgrade is certain to take longer than one from a more recent version!