SourceSafe Installation
and Configuration
Ted Roche
Ted Roche & Associates, LLC
http://www.tedroche.com

Who is Ted Roche?
President of TR&A, LLC Consulting
Microsoft Certified Solution Developer,
Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer
Co-Author of Hacker’s Guide to VFP 6
Author of Essential SourceSafe
Microsoft Support MVP

Outline
Installation
Configuration
Limitations of Integrated SCC
Maintenance
Preventative
Repair

Installation
Run Server Install once
Place on Network Share
Run Client Install on each PC
Then, run SP on each PC

Configuration
For Integrated SCC, multiple checkouts
Project Security
For each language, Tools/Options

Limitations of Integrated SCC
Project must be in tree structure
All PCs must be configured
PJM files get “confused”
Low-bandwidth connections slow

How many developers?
Integrated SCC for 1 to n users
Some people say n<=2
Network configuration
Try out SourceOffSite

Maintenance
Structure of PJM file
Physical File List
Regular ANALYZE testing

Disaster Recovery
Make backups!
Run analyze and repair database regularly. Then analyze again.
Most recent source is always in .A or .B files
With Physical Files Lists, all can be recovered.

Summary
Configure carefully
Maintain regularly
Have backups ready

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