Can I setup a symbol server outside the TFS build machine?

Question

Hello,

I would like to setup a symbol / source server at our company but I have not access to the TFS build machine because this is managed from another department (I'm a developer and this is managed by the Release Engineering).

Can I setup the symbol / source server in another machine that takes the results of the TFS build machine to populate its database of symbol / source?

AFAIK the information available talks always about installing the server at the same location as the TFS build machine.

Thanks in advance mates.

Answer 1

A "Symbol Server" is really just a shared folder accessible via a UNC path. You can set one up anywhere that's accessible by your build server. You'll need to grant "Full Control" privileges to the user account the Build Service is running as. I have a blog post with more details here:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/jimlamb/archive/2009/06/15/symbol-and-source-server-in-tfs-2010.aspx