TFS 2017 - Merge Multiple Collections into Single Collection

Question

Hi all, 

In our organization, we have a TFS 2017 server for our work items and source code.  It's currently split into several collections (13 to be exact - I inherited it like this unfortunately). 

We're wanting to eventually migrate over to VSTS, but saw that a VSTS account only supports migrating a single collection to it.  We would like to avoid multiple accounts, and only have 1 VSTS account.  Since this can't be done with migrating multiple collections to a single VSTS account, I was wondering if there was a way out there to merge collections into a single collection in our on-prem environment, so that we can get a start on the migration to VSTS (our other hurdle being licensing, but that's another topic)? 

What my plan is, is to upgrade our TFS 2017 Update 2 to TFS 2018 once it fully releases and is out of RC2; after that, I would like for us to migrate to VSTS.  

Thanks! 

Answer 1

Hi Chase.B,

There is no default way to "merge multiple collections into a single collection". But there are a few commercial solutions like OpsHub to migrate version control changesets, work items, etc. You may want to consider them.

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