Specify the maximum number of concurrent builds on TFS 2015

Question

As per TFS documentation ( Documentation ), when the "Batch changes" option is selected, the maximum number of concurrent builds can also be specified, but I can not find any documentation on how to limit the maximum number of concurrent builds. Any help, please?

Answer 1

First just as the doc said, the batch changes is used for reducing the number of builds you are running.

If you select this option, when a build is running, the system waits until the build is completed and then queues another build of all changes that have not yet been built.

However you can't run multiple solution builds in parallel in TFS 2015, it's only able to run multiple configurations and platforms in parallel. Some related topic:

• Parallel build in TFS 2015?
• TFS 2015 v.Next build: Parallel solution builds?

So the concurrent builds should be running builds on multiple build agents the same time. You can't run concurrent builds on a single agent. It looks like a lack of content, I will submit this through internal channels, once updated will let you know. You could also submit a feedback on MS connect page or GITHub Issues page. Through this you may get a faster response.