Using Team Foundation Server for a own server

Question

My team works on SQL database and asp.net in MS Visual Studio 2008. We have own server where our current repository is stored. We use Visual SourceSafe (VSS) 6.0 as the source control. Recently we decided the switch to the latest source control technologies such as Team Foundation Server or GIT.

I was able to create the GIT repository in our server and all team members were able to commit changes in the repository through Visual Studio 2013. But we like the nice GUI of Team foundation server and all of it features like source control explorer, check-out files for edit, managing users group and permission through TFS control panel, etc. It would be convenient for us if we have access to those features.

My question is can we use Visual Studio Team Services by maintaining our central repository in our own server? Or we have to host our source code in Visual Studio Team Services or any other third party repository? We do not want to store our code to any other places other than our own server and still want to use the TFS features.

Thank you for your help in advance.

Answer 1

YES, TFS allows you to store your repository on your own private server. Just install TFS on the server, then Visual Studio will connect to it for each client machine and you can use source control etc.