How can I rename a team project and area paths in TFS?

Question

How can I rename my Team Project that is hosted in Microsoft\'s Team Foundation Service? And how can I rename the area paths?

Answer 1

The idea status changed to STARTED

Visual Studio Team (Product Team, Microsoft) responded On Feb 27, 2015:

Im am excited to announce that today we are planning to enable project rename for TFS 2015. We don’t have an ETA yet for Visual Studio Online.

If you want to see our progress, visit the Future Feature Development page at http://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/release-archive-vso.

Ewald Hofman TFS Program Manager

Answer 2

Unfortunately it is not possible in TFS 2005, 2008, 2010, 2012, or 2013. However the work to complete this has been done and it is now available on VSO and will ship in TFS 2015.

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/bharry/archive/2015/04/24/team-project-rename-available-on-vs-online.aspx

Answer 3

You can now rename team projects in Visual Studio Online and the upcoming TFS 2015 release: https://www.visualstudio.com/en-us/news/2015-apr-24-vso