Disclaimer The opinions expressed herein are my own personal opinions and do not represent my employer's view in anyway.
Upgrading from Beta 3 refresh of TFS to RTM, was as painful as I expected (but probably my own fault). With great hopes, I downloaded the Team Foundation Server Upgrade Package and faithfully followed the steps within the document.
The first thing I learned when applying the update was the Beta 3 Refresh of TFS was incorrectly installed. I purchased a server off of ebay to have a dedicated machine running this software, however when I installed SharePoint services, I missed the step to install it with the "Server Farm" option. This created a named instances of SQL Server independent of the SQL install hosting TFS. When the TFSUpgrade utility attempted to apply the updates to the SharePoint databases, it failed since the upgrade was looking in the default instances. I moved the databases from the SharePoint instance to the default instance, and I think that was the cause of most of the problems.
To make a long painful story short here are the next steps I did to complete the effort...
Anyway - things are all well, I have a couple of legacy TFS projects that are limping along but useable non-the-less.
Has any one else had similar experiences?
*Note - Although my experience documented here wasn't too "pleasant" it is probably due to my lack of my prior knowledge on TFS configuration and architecture and learning on the fly. This was an excellent learning experience and the more I learn about the capabilities of this product, the more I like it!
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