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Baskar Lingam Ramachandran
Baskar Lingam Ramachandran

Reputation: 677

Changing TFS Release Retention Policy settings

We are TFS 2017 Update 3.

The default TFS Release 'Retention Policy Settings' are as below after a Team Project is created.

Project level Release Retention Settings

Collection level Build Retention Settings

While there is a way to specify the retention policy settings for Builds at the TFS Project Collection level, I am wondering if there is a way to do this for Releases as well. For Releases the retention settings are the project level. I am interested to change this setting for each new project.

I don't see a setting at the process templates.

Is this not provided to the users? Or Am I missing something?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1367

Answers (1)

PatrickLu-MSFT
PatrickLu-MSFT

Reputation: 51083

Sorry, the Global release retention policy is just project level. There is no project collection level setting.

If you are using an on-premises Team Foundation Server, you can specify release retention policy defaults and maximums for a team project.

Global release retention policy settings can be managed from the Release settings of your team project:

On-premises:

https://{your_server}/tfs/{collection_name}/{team_project}/_admin/_apps/hub/ms.vss-releaseManagement-web.release-project-admin-hub

For Build retention policies:

  • Global build retention policy--project collection level

    -- Builds of your definition on the Retention tab

For Release retention policies:

  • Global release retention policy--project level

    -- Releases of your definition on the Retention tab

    ---Environment-specific retention

More details please take a look at this tutorial: Global release retention policy

Upvotes: 1

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