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Update for TFS 2010 (RTM version) including all hot fixes

Microsoft released an update ( KB 983578 ) for: Team Foundation Server 2010 All Team Foundation Server 2010 clients (aka Team Explorer) It's the same update package that will update the client and server components. What's in that upgrade? According to Brian Harry and the KB article: Enables...

Posted to TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje by neno on Mon, Aug 23 2010
Filed under: Filed under: TFS Administration, Downloads, TFS Clients, Issues and Hotfixes, TFS Installation and Configuration, Microsoft Test Manager (MTM)
TF30207: Can't create team project on TFS itself / red X on documents and reports / insufficient SSRS or WSS permissions

Problem description Team Project creation fails on the Team Foundation Server itself due to insufficient permissions although the user has all neccessary permissions in SQL Server Reporting Services (Content Manager role) as well as Windows SharePoint Services. or A red X is shown next to the Reports...

Posted to TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje by neno on Wed, Oct 28 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Administration, Issues and Hotfixes
Unable to publish test results from Visual Studio to TFS

Error message similar to: username@servername (mailto:username@servername) 2008-10-13 2:21:50 0.28 MB 10/13/2008 3:19:14 PM Failed Access to the...

Posted to TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje by neno on Sat, May 30 2009
Filed under: Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Administration, VS Test Tools, Team Foundation Build (TFS Build), Issues and Hotfixes
Hotfix for Team Build 2008 SP1: Reducing project-to-project references in build log (KB958845)

From Aaron Hallberg blog : […] change in TFS Build SP1 which reduced build log noise by cutting out the build steps for project-to-project references […] the fix in SP1 didn't actually fix the problem , at least not completely. […] As such, if a project was referenced by 10 other projects the fix...

Posted to TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje by neno on Sat, Jan 31 2009
Filed under: Filed under: TFS Administration, Team Foundation Build (TFS Build), Issues and Hotfixes, TFS Installation and Configuration, TFS 2008 SP1
Users can see all team projects after upgrading from TFS 2005 to 2008

Make sure all team project members are added to the appropriate groups ( Project Administrators , Contributors and Readers ). For every team project remove the "[Server]\Team Foundation Valid Users " group from the team project settings ( Team Project Settings » Securty ). Done. Regular members...

Posted to TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje by neno on Wed, Aug 6 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Administration, TFS Tips and Tricks, TFS 2008, Issues and Hotfixes, TFS Installation and Configuration, VSTS
FIX: TFS 2008: Delete lost when you merge from delete-branch to trunk

> KB article > Hotfix download

Posted to TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje by neno on Thu, Jul 10 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Administration, Team Foundation Version Control, TFS 2008, Issues and Hotfixes
Beware of configuration changes - TFS might not like them

If one of the following action are planned you should ready the appropriate documentation: Change the name of your TFS server Join a domain with your TFS or change the domain to which the TFS belongs Change the accounts used for running the TFS services Change the account passwords for the involved services...

Posted to TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje by neno on Wed, Jul 9 2008
Filed under: Filed under: TFS Administration, Troubleshooting TFS, Issues and Hotfixes, TFS Installation and Configuration, VSTS
Documentation on how to troubleshoot TFS issues

Check the Windows Event Log . Run TFS Best Practices Analyzer . (part of the Power Tools , requires PowerShell to be installed first) TFS-Team Explorer 2008 Troubleshooting Guide (@ MSDN Forums) Have a look at the available troubleshooting documentation on MSDN : For connection trouble have a look at...

Posted to TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje by neno on Wed, Jul 9 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Administration, Troubleshooting TFS, Issues and Hotfixes, TFS Installation and Configuration
Uninstalling TFS 2005 (services) on the app tier removes reporting services virtual directories

After uninstalling TFS 2005 (services) from a standby TFS application tier the SQL Server Reporting Services were not available, i.e. browsing http://server/reports and http://server/reportserver/ resulted in a 404 error. Workaround: Run the Reporting Services Configuration Tool and recreate both virtual...

Posted to TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje by neno on Tue, May 6 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Administration, TFS 2005, TFS Reporting, Issues and Hotfixes
FIX: An unexpected error occurred while trying to add a web part to a project portal in TFS 2005

Due to a lot of requests about this pretty common problem. Steps you did: You browsed for a web part: You selected one and hit "Add": You got the error message: "An unexpected error occurred." This is a know issue with WSS 2.0 and a hot fix [1] can be requested at Microsoft which...

Posted to TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje by neno on Tue, Feb 19 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Administration, Downloads, TFS 2005, Project Management with TFS, TFS Project Portal and Team Communication, Issues and Hotfixes
TFS 2008 Trials: How to extend the trial?

Since Team Foundation Server 2008 was released end of November 2007 the early adopters which for some reasons have not obtained a product key yet are facing the problem of expiring trial licenses on their TFS servers. I definitely recommend to find out when your TFS trial expires. You can use the Version...

Posted to TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje by neno on Tue, Feb 12 2008
Filed under: Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), Unreleased, TFS Administration, Team Foundation Version Control, TFS 2008, Issues and Hotfixes
Method not found: 'Void Microsoft.Reporting.PreviewItemContext.SetPath()' when using Report View in TSWA

If you get the following error message above when using the Report View in Team System Web Access… … you need to install the Microsoft Report Viewer Redistributable 2005 on your TFS App Tier (as described here ) to make it work again. How it looks when it works Open a work item or a execute...

Posted to TFS & Visual Studio ALM - by Neno Loje by neno on Thu, Sep 6 2007
Filed under: Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Administration, TFS Tips and Tricks, TFS 2005, Team System Web Access (TSWA), Issues and Hotfixes

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