Does Team Foundation Server support remote repositories?
Posted: Friday, February 17, 2006 10:04 AM
by
vstsfaq
Filed under: SCM
The underlying repository, SQL Server 2005, does support remote sites and two-way replication; this is not a tested or supported scenario for Team Foundation Server usage. Remote development shops are supported through a remote proxy server that caches file downloads (which is a high bandwidth activity). The intention of the Team Foundation Server Proxy is to boost network performance by caching copies of source code files in a remote location. Remote users will still access the central server for exchange of SOAP messages and check-ins/uploads through HTTP, traversing firewalls. All downloads (i.e. Get Latest) will be cached through the remote proxy. (http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms253156(VS.80).aspx)