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Move Team Foundation Server to a new domain

Since we want to simplify administration by minimizing our server farm the subdomain that currently hosts our Team Foundation Server is going to be removed. This means that we will have to move the entire installation to the parent domain. Luckily we only have one server as application-tier and data-tier, and we are very few users, which makes the process a whole lot less dramatic.

First of all we have to make sure that the new domain is ready to incorporate the server. It is not possible to perform any kind of user mapping, so all user accounts must have the same login name on the new domain as on the current domain. This also applies to the service accounts used by Team Foundation Server.

The documentation around this procedure is well documented on MSDN. The article describes the scenario to move from a workgroup to a domain, but the scenario from one domain to another works exactly the same. The entire process can be summarized in 5 steps:
  1. Ensure that all users have accounts on the new domain and that the login names are the same as on the current domain.
  2. Stop all services and application pools that concerns Team Foundation Server.
  3. Move the servers to the new domain.
  4. Use TFSAdminUtil to change service accounts and update user accounts.
  5. Start all services and application pools again.
The move went absolutely perfect and I could connect with he server on the new domain on the first try. There were some small issues with the SharePoint configuration since the SharePoint service account was not changed. Luckily there is a tool for that:

stsadm.exe -o updatefarmcredentials -userlogin DOMAIN\user -password ******
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