How to access VS 2010 TFS over the Internet from a remote office

Question

We have a team member in another country, and we are trying to figure out the most viable opportunity to give them access to our Team Foundation Server for Visual Studio 2010.

Answer 1

You can check this http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb668967.aspx

Answer 2

If they are part of your corporate LAN / WAN, they should be able to access just like a local user. If they are external, you have a couple of options:

• VPN: you can give them VPN access to your network, then they can access it like a local user.

• Expose: You can open TFS to the outside world by allowing the appropriate ports through your firewall.

You can also take a look at the TFS proxies, but to be honest, I haven't done anything about it yet.

Answer 3

Open port 8080 and move this port to the appropriate server. You can also configure HTTPS.

When the remote user is not in the same domain, he receives a request for credentials. A remote user can use the Windows credential cache (stored usernames and passwords for Windows XP).

Answer 4

The best solution is to enable TFS over VPN for WAN users. Thanks to port mapping, you can enable access to TFS application tiers, but Sharepoint (Documents) and Reports may not work correctly. So, the best way is to enable VPS with SSL and allow Internet users to connect to your TFS, as well as internal users.

Good luck