Page Comparison

1. Read the page below: How-to migrate Backlog Items from TFS to DevOps

2. Go to TFS and find your project.

3. Click on Work > Queries > New > New Query

   

4. On Editor, add a filter:

   1. Work Item Type

      Code Block
      User Story, Bug

   2. State

      Code Block
      To Do,In Progress,Active,New,Pre-Acceptance,User-Acceptance

   Image Removed
   Image Added

5. Save query as

   

6. Open a new Excel file, go to Team > New List

   Image RemovedImage Added

7. Click on Servers and add 2 servers, one for TFS connection and the other for DevOps connection

   

8. After that, select your TFS Connection > your project > Connect

   

9. In a query list, select your query created before and click on OK

   

10. Now, you can see a list of backlog items in TFS.

    Image Added

11. Go to DevOps > Boards > Queries > New query

    Image Added

12. Editor, add a filter:

    1. Iteration Path

       Code Block
       DSD-CIVAV Support

    2. Area Path (Use the name of the project being migrated)

       Code Block
       DSD-CIVAV Support\NASIMS

       Image Added

13. Save as

14. Image Added

    Open a new Excel file, go to Team > New List and select your connection with DevOps

    Image Added

15. Select your query and click OK

    Image Added

16. Now you can see the list of your backlog items in DevOps

    Image Added

17. So, go in your first Excel file with the list of backlog items in TFS and copy all lines

    Image Added

18. Copy all lines in your second Excel file, with the list of backlog items in DevOps

    1. Change User Story to Product Backlog Item

       Image Added

    2. Change the User in Assigned To (if the user doesn’t exist in the list, you can remove the name)

       Image Added

    3. Change Pre-Acceptance or User-Acceptance in State to New

       Image Added

19. Go to TEAM > Publish

    Image Added

20. After this step, each items will have a new ID

    Image Added

21. Return to DevOps and go to Backlog > select DSD-CivAv Support Team and select all new backlog items imported

    Image Added

22. Droit button and Edit

    Image Added

23. Add the Area Path and Save

    Image Added

24. Each new backlog item was like Pre-Acceptance or User-Acceptance in TFS, we need to change the status: New to Commited and Save.

    Image Added

25. If you return in your query in DevOps, you can see all backlog items migrated and with the Area Path correctly.

    Image Added

NOTE: You don’t need to create a new query for each project, just change the Area Path in your actual query to the project that will be migrated and Save it.

...