TFS Auditing

Hi, my name is Cameron, and our company is looking into your TFS hosting solution. We currently have TFS 2005 on a server that's just gone out of warranty, and we'll be either replacing it with TFS 2010 on a new server or a hosted TFS such as yours.

One of the things I can do with our current TFS system is log onto the server and audit who's got what checked out, for how long, what workspaces a user has created, etc. I occasionally will uncheck out files from systems that have crashed and can no longer use the workspace to check them back in. I was just wondering if I would have these same abilities if we went with your hosted TFS system. Let me know, thanks!

 

Thank you for the response, also to my ticket request. I've looked through everything you've provided, and I'm having trouble finding what I'm looking for. I've been able to connect to the TFS instance you have provided me for the 30-day trial, and everything there works great. Checking in, checking out, reviewing changesets, etc., all work great. I believe your service completely satisfies all my normal day-to-day work.

The problem I'm having is I don't have any easy way of performing an overall audit on all of our code. It's easy to look at a specific folder or file to see what's checked out, but if I have a lot of projects in TFS with hundreds of files, and I want to see what a specific person has checked out across everything in our team system, I don't want to have to go one-by-one looking through each folder to see it.

What I do on our current system is log onto the team server and run some command-lines. For example: "tf status /workspace:workspacex; /user:ctangen /server:serverx" will give me everything this user has checked out for a given workspace. It's very easy to see if maybe this user has a lot of stuff checked out, or nothing at all. Makes it easy if this person is, say, upgrading their machine and needs to check in everything they have checked out before the old machine is tossed out, but they don't quite remember all that they have checked out. I can also list all the workspaces a user has with this line: "tf workspaces /owner:ctangen /server:serverx". Unfortunately, I haven't been able to get either these command-lines to work with the TFS system you have provided me.

I'm assuming since yours is a shared system and access to the team server is not permitted, these command-lines won't work. That's fine, but I need some way of performing these audits, and they can't be done with the standard Web or Visual Studio TFS interfaces. If I can get a little guidance on how to perform these audits, it would be very helpful. Thank you!

 

No problem, I will do that now! I'm sure it's something simple. Thanks

 

Didn't want to reopen the ticket, but just wanted to say that everything is working great. I have to turn off the proxy auto-configuration switch in IE, but that's fine. I don't run these commands very often, and even if I did, it would be easy to fix with a whitelist as you suggested.