Installing the Spruce alpha

The installation of (the current version of Spruce when this post was written) is very straightforward:

• You need TFS 2010, it won’t work with 2008. Install .NET 4 and register it for IIS.
• Create a new Application Pool on your TFS IIS server, give it Network Service as the owner
• Create a new application in your TFS website under /TFS/. It must be under this path for the windows authentication to work
• Assign the application pool to this application
• Point it to the place you’ve put your spruce directory
• Edit the web.config in spruce to change the DefaultProjectName to the project you want to appear by default for every user.

Future versions will have a proper per-user configuration for projects, currently it’s session based only.

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