title: TFS 2018: How to share deployment group
body: <p>I am using TFS 2018. I successfully created a "Hello World" MVC and SQL Server project. I was able to build and release the project to the target server.</p>
  
  <p>To make sure I had the method down correctly, I created a second "Hello World" MVC project. I was able to build it successfully. The only problem was that when I went to the "Deployment Groups", I didn't see anything there, even though the target server already has a Deployment Machine running.</p>
  
  <p>I figured the problem is that I need to share the Deployment Machine. So I read the instructions for Deployment Groups <a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/build-release/concepts/definitions/release/deployment-groups/#monitor-releases-for-deployment-groups" rel="nofollow noreferrer">here</a>: </p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p><strong>Add a deployment pool and group to another project</strong></p>
    
    <p>To manage a deployment pool, or to add an existing deployment pool and
    the groups it contains to another project, choose the Manage link in
    the Agent Pool section of the Deployment Group page. In the Deployment
    Pools page, select the projects for which you want the deployment
    group to be available, then save the changes.</p>
    
    <p>When you navigate to the Deployment Groups page in the target
    project(s), you will see the deployment group you added and you can
    assign project-specific machine tags as required.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
  <p>The problem is that while I have a "Deployment Group" page, I do not see any "Agent Pool", "Manage", or Deployment Group".  (See screenshots immediately below).</p>
  
  <p>Am I missing something obvious? Is this a case of the instructions really being meant for VSTS and/or Azure, but not TFS?</p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>I selected the deployment group and see the machine that I registered on my target server.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/IOJpl.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/IOJpl.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <ul>
  <li>Even when expanding the machine, I don't see any options to share.</li>
  </ul>
  
  <p><a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/tTJTe.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/tTJTe.png" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>
  
  <p>In summary, what I do have to do in order to share this Deployment Machine, so that I can release different projects to the same server?</p>