TFS4JIRA Synchronizer is a web application accompanying JIRA plugin. It is required for the data to be properly transferred between the systems and is required regardless if you are using a cloud or on-premises versions of TFS / VisualStudio Team Services and JIRA.
If you are using check-ins synchronization and you are using JIRA Cloud, you need to make the Synchronizer web interface available from the Internet. Please refer to Settings for JIRA Cloud for more details.
Please review prerequisites list before installing TFS4JIRA Synchronizer.
You can download installer from here: https://spartez.com/products/tfs4jira
TFS4JIRA Synchronizer installation process is quite straightforward. Simply run the installer (tfs4jira-synchronizer-setup-x.y.z.msi) as an administrator and follow instructions. The installer will warn you if any of the required components is missing (see this page for a list of prerequisites).
TFS4JIRA Synchronizer application will be created under site named "Default Web Site" - if this site doesn't exist then installation process will fail. If you really need to install the synchronizer on a different web site, or if your site is called differently, you will need to use the command line to invoke MS installer with some additional parameters, like this:
msiexec /i tfs4jira-synchronizer-setup-4.2.3.msi WEBSITENAME="example" WEBSITEPORT=99
where WEBSITENAME is the name of your existing web site, under which you want to install the synchronizer, and WEBSITEPORT is its port - both of these options must be specified, otherwise the result is undefined. There is more information about this at
Error rendering macro 'jira' : Unable to locate Jira server for this macro. It may be due to Application Link configuration.You should be able to access the installed application under the following URL: http://<your-iis-host-name>/tfs-jira-synchronizer. In order to log in to the application just use administrator's login and password.
TFS4JIRA Synchronizer application can be installed on any server machine that has network access to both JIRA and TFS / VisualStudio Team Services and which is always online.