Operational Guidance for Team Foundation Server (Think Service Accounts, Permissions, Backup, Monitoring, etc)

Visual Studio Developer Center  - Operations Guidance for Team Foundation Server

"...You can use this guide to help you understand your deployment of Team Foundation Server and keep it running throughout the software-development life cycle. Team Foundation Server depends on an alignment of permissions, configuration information, and service accounts across the components to operate correctly. These components include not only Team Foundation Server itself, but also the technologies on which it depends, such as Microsoft Windows SharePoint Services and Microsoft SQL Server Reporting Services. If you understand how these components interoperate, you can more effectively perform routine tasks, such as managing user permissions, backing up your deployment, and monitoring its overall health. In addition, you can avoid causing problems when you alter your deployment to meet the changing needs of your organization.

This guide is not designed to help you plan or troubleshoot a deployment. However, you will be better able to troubleshoot an existing deployment or plan a new one if you understand how Team Foundation Server operates. ...

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Help in getting your head around how TFS works operationally.

What I really liked was the permission topic (Managing Groups, Users, and Permissions), in that it provides a little information an links to the Team Foundation Server Administration Tool and Team Foundation Server Permission Manager tools (I need those rarely and always seem forget where to find/update them...)

If you're an IT guy and your developers are hounding you about TFS or your a Dev but sometimes play an IT role, or are just interested in what to do with TFS operationally once it's installed (i.e. setting permissions, backing it up, monitoring it, etc) this article is worth a quick read...

(via Tales from the Doghouse - TFS Operations Guidance)