TFS Migration from On-Premise to Visual Studio Online

Having a server at home that hosts a TFS is nice. But really necessary? Not really. So I decided to move all my sources to Visual Studio Online.

Visual Studio Online Basic is free for the first 5 users. That’s enough for me.

The migration process is straight forward easy with a tool that is installed on my computer. The process is described here. Another post can be found here.

During the pre migration steps a user mapping is performed, connections verified and a few other things. The process itself takes some time. I have 32MB in 4680 files and it took about half an hour. Another service on my server that isn’t needed anymore 🙂

Conclusion: Migration from On-Premise TFS (in my case 2012) to Visual Studio Online is very easy.