VSS to TFS Migration without SQL Express

I am finishing up a new TFS implementation at my current client. They are migrating their code from VSS. VSSConverter.exe needs a SQL Server database to perform some of the intermediate steps before getting the data over to TFS, the problem is that the converter defaults to a SQL Express database, which would be great, except that I don’t have Express installed on my laptop. MSDN tells me what to do to change this behavior, but they don’t tell me when I need to add that XML element. So after messing around with it, I found that I need to add it to the “Source” section of my Settings.xml file, so it would look like this:

  1. <Source name=VSS>
  2. <VSSDatabase name=c:\VSS>VSSDatabase>
  3. <UserMap name=C:\VSS Migration\Usermap.xml>UserMap>
  4. <SQL Server=.>SQL>
  5. Source>
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