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MGN
Occasional Contributor
6 years ago

Pull code from repository on VM startup?

Hello Everyone,   I tried doing some searching, but wasn't able to find help related to what we're trying to do with a new VM setup.    We are currently being upgraded to new windows 10 vm's ...
  • tristaanogre's avatar
    tristaanogre
    6 years ago

    We're using a commandline call in Task Scheduler.  We have ours triggered on a timer but you can trigger off of logon or startup.

    "C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\TeamExplorer\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer\tf.exe" get *.* /force /recursive

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tristaanogre
Esteemed Contributor
6 years ago

We're using a commandline call in Task Scheduler.  We have ours triggered on a timer but you can trigger off of logon or startup.

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Visual Studio\2017\TeamExplorer\Common7\IDE\CommonExtensions\Microsoft\TeamFoundation\Team Explorer\tf.exe" get *.* /force /recursive

  • Marsha_R's avatar
    Marsha_R
    Moderator
    6 years ago

    At a previous job, we did something similar to what tristaanogre describes, but we used Bamboo to launch everything.  

     

  • MGN's avatar
    MGN
    Occasional Contributor
    6 years ago

    Thanks for the quick reply.

     

    From the command line code listed there, aside from needing a version of visual studio installed on the VM, I'm guessing you need to have an account logging in to the VM that has access to the TFS repository and has mapping defined to pull to a location (in this case, defined on the master vm so it exists on runner vm creation/recreation), yes?  Or is it possible in the command line string to define permissions and the folder location to write the code to?  Our test user for our vm's currently doesn't have access to our repository since we've only manually pushed code to the vm's so far.

    • tristaanogre's avatar
      tristaanogre
      Esteemed Contributor
      6 years ago

      You are correct, you will need to set up that test user to have at least a level of access to retrieve from the repository.

      • MGN's avatar
        MGN
        Occasional Contributor
        6 years ago

        Sounds good, thanks again.  I'll pass this over to the others working on our upgrade to see if this is the solution they were hoping for.