Migrate Workitems from local TFS into VSTS

Question

I\'m migrating our local TFS to VSTS (Cloud TFS). Everything worked fine so far, but now I want to migrate all the existing workitems to the VSTS. I have searched the inter

Answer 1

TFS has three options for scoping and scaling data - deployments, team project collections, and team projects. Team projects are used to encapsulate the assets of individual software projects, including source code, work items, and so on.

• If you don't mind losing work item history, you could just pull over work items, using Excel. Details steps please refer this blog- -Migrating TFS Work Items to a new Team Project using Excel (TFS/VSO/VSTS) or this thread- -Migrating Work Items from TFS 2017 to VSTS

• If you have no work item customisation, then OpsHub is also an option.

• If you have work item customisation and need keeping histroy , then you are going to have to use TFS Integration Platform.

You could also use some customize powershell script or 3-party tool such as VSTS Sync Migration Tools for migrating WI with attachments.

More ways and detail explanation please have a look at jessehouwing's answer in this question: How to migrate work items from TFS to VS Team Services (VS Online)