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How can I migrate from TFS hosted on http://tfs.visualstudio.com to an on-premises version of TFS? I want to use Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Express 2012, which is free for 5 users.
Can everything be migrated including work items, queries, and source code?
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As we all know it's very easy to move workloads from your on-premise environment but no real easy way to reverse that replication. With Carbon you simply just connect to your Azure Portal, choose the VMs you want to copy back to on-premise, choose your Hypervisor and datastore then click GO.
On September 10, 2018, Microsoft renamed Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) to Azure DevOps Services. With Azure DevOps Server 2019, Microsoft is renaming Visual Studio Team Foundation Server to Azure DevOps Server.
The TFS Integration Platform can do this, however it has its limitations. A major one is that source history is played back change by change, which means you lose the original dates that things happened.
Willy P Schaub wrote an excellent msdn magazine article on Migrating from an On-Premises Team Foundation Server to Team Foundation Service Preview Using the TFS Integration Tools which is the opposite direction than you want, but it should be a good start.
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You can now use the Data Export to move your data from VSO to TFS on-prem: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/7cb80f0d-0119-4277-82e8-719a8db1796e
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