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Team Foundation Server

byMicrosoft
in Application Development Life Cycle Management (Transitioning to DevOps Platforms)
4.4

Overview

Product Information on Team Foundation Server

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Team Foundation Server?

Team Foundation Server is a software designed to facilitate collaborative software development and project management. It provides version control, reporting, requirements management, project tracking, automated builds, and testing support for software teams. The software integrates with several development environments and offers capabilities for source code management, work item tracking, and continuous integration. Team Foundation Server addresses the need for centralized project coordination, helping teams manage code changes, track work progress, and streamline the application lifecycle from planning to deployment. This software is suited for organizations seeking to enhance team collaboration and improve the visibility and control over development projects.

Team Foundation Server Pricing

Team Foundation Server software uses a client access license and server license model, where organizations purchase server licenses and client access licenses for each user or device accessing the software. Pricing may vary based on user count and available features, and the software is often offered as a perpetual license with optional annual maintenance or support fees.

Overall experience with Team Foundation Server

IT MANAGER
500M - 1B USD, IT Services
FAVORABLE

“Effective Deployment Tool Streamlining Product Development”

5.0
Dec 4, 2024
This has been one of the top used tool for the department and organization. It has become the one stop solution to all the projects, releases. The ability to design and expedite the overall application development from the start to till deployment has helped develop the products in an efficient and effective manner. With the company transition in the AI/ML it has become an important platform that has all the teams connected and review the work that is being done by several users. Inclusion of this has helped built the the first major deployment effectively on the operations with minimal errors. Teams are able to use the added SharePoint that has been able to provide the extra space for information sharing and seeing feedback/review on the work progress. Been a good tool and looking forward to using this on larger scale and integrating new features with the evolving technoliges across the globe.
Senior Software Development Engineer
50M - 250M USD, Services (non-Government)
CRITICAL

“Exploring Team Foundation Server's Impact on Large Scale Development”

3.0
Dec 9, 2024
Team Foundation Server is the perfect tool for small projects requiring strict version control. The performance limitations become the major issue for large applications and projects. If scalability is a problem, it may be necessary to look for other options.

About Company

Company Description

Updated 11th August 2023

Microsoft enables digital transformation for the era of an intelligent cloud and an intelligent edge. Its mission is to empower every person and every organization on the planet to achieve more. Microsoft is dedicated to advancing human and organizational achievement. Microsoft Security helps protect people and data against cyberthreats to give peace of mind.

Company Details

Updated 25th March 2024
Company type
Public
Year Founded
1975
Head office location
Redmond, Washington, United States
Number of employees
10000+
Annual Revenue
30B+ USD
Website
https://microsoft.com

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Team Foundation Server Likes & Dislikes

Like

Easy GUI, quick communication, user friendly and accurate.

Like

With the use of Team Foundation Server, tracking of code changes, rollbacks and branching has been made very easy. We use it in our development team and it helps to keep all the information in order and to work together on large tasks.

Like

TFS has the following advantages: Easy Integration with Microsoft tools It has customizable Workflows Collaboration Features Robust Reporting

Dislike

None so far

Dislike

Large code bases are a problem for Team Foundation Server. With the growth of our projects, the performance was greatly hindered. Merge and build processes began to get very slow which created a bottleneck and impacted the developers.

Dislike

Sometimes it performs a bit slow especially with larger projects or repositories.

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Team Foundation Server Reviews and Ratings

4.4

(379 Ratings)

Rating Distribution

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1%
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  • Senior Software Development Engineer
    50M-1B USD
    Services (non-Government)
    Review Source

    Exploring Team Foundation Server's Impact on Large Scale Development

    3.0
    Dec 9, 2024
    Team Foundation Server is the perfect tool for small projects requiring strict version control. The performance limitations become the major issue for large applications and projects. If scalability is a problem, it may be necessary to look for other options.
  • IT MANAGER
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Effective Deployment Tool Streamlining Product Development

    5.0
    Dec 4, 2024
    This has been one of the top used tool for the department and organization. It has become the one stop solution to all the projects, releases. The ability to design and expedite the overall application development from the start to till deployment has helped develop the products in an efficient and effective manner. With the company transition in the AI/ML it has become an important platform that has all the teams connected and review the work that is being done by several users. Inclusion of this has helped built the the first major deployment effectively on the operations with minimal errors. Teams are able to use the added SharePoint that has been able to provide the extra space for information sharing and seeing feedback/review on the work progress. Been a good tool and looking forward to using this on larger scale and integrating new features with the evolving technoliges across the globe.
  • IT SERVICES ASSOCIATE
    50M-1B USD
    IT Services
    Review Source

    Exploring TFS: Tailored Workflows and Microsoft Integration

    5.0
    Oct 29, 2024
    TFS is valued for its comprehensive suite of tools for version control, project management and continuous integration. Its integration with Microsoft products is a significant advantage, and the customizable workflows help tailor the experience to specific team needs.
  • SR QUALITY MANAGER
    <50M USD
    Healthcare and Biotech
    Review Source

    Digitalizing Product Development with TFS

    5.0
    Jun 10, 2024
    This tool helps in centralized source control, project management, continuous integration and deployment, testing and integration with other tools during product development. We have been using TFS from last 5+ years. we are using this for multiple work item management like requirements, risk, software items, etc. Customization of this software has helped in building our organization's needs and benefit product development activities.
  • SOFTWARE QA
    <50M USD
    Software
    Review Source

    One of the best ADLM softwares

    4.0
    May 28, 2024
    Has been rebranded to Azure. Have used TFS in the past and I highly recommend it to be used, along with other Microsoft products due to simple integration. Perfect for source code management. Not many flaws that I have experienced.
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