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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...

Published Wed, May 05 2008 12:19 AM by neno

Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, For Infrastructure Architects, Version 2005, TFS Reporting, Bugs/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...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2008 12:42 AM by neno

Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, Downloads, Version 2005, Project Management with TFS, TFS Administration, Project Portal and Team Communication, Bugs/Issues and Hotfixes, Issues and Hotfixes

Known Work Item History Limitations for Links & Attachments

They are two major problems when looking into the history with regard to links. 1. No clue what has changed : If you remove an attachment and add a completely different one the history will indicate that there was a change (revision gets in incremented...

Published Wed, Feb 02 2008 12:30 AM by neno

Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Change Management, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005, Version 2008, Project Management with TFS, For Business Analysts, Troubleshooting, Quality Assurance (QA) with VSTS, Bugs/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...

Published Tue, Feb 02 2008 7:01 PM by neno

Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), Unreleased, TFS Server Administration, Team Foundation Version Control, Version 2008, TFS Administration, Bugs/Issues and Hotfixes, Issues and Hotfixes

Some Code Analysis Rules gone in Visual Studio 2008

I was very sad to hear that a few beloved rules were removed from code analysis (aka FxCop) in Visual Studio 2008. Here’s a list of the removed rules: Removed due to removal of data flow engine: CA1062 ValidateArgumentsOfPublicMethods CA1303 DoNotPassLiteralsAsLocalizedParameters...

Published Sun, Jan 01 2008 9:15 PM by neno

Filed under: For Software Developers, Version 2008, VSTS Developer Edition, Software Quality, For Release Managers, Quality Assurance (QA) with VSTS, Bugs/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...

Published Fri, Sep 09 2007 12:46 PM by neno

Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005, Team System Web Access (TSWA), Bugs/Issues and Hotfixes, Issues and Hotfixes

Check-In is slow when using exclusive check-out?

It’s still hot: Microsoft released a fix for slow check-in’s if you’re using exclusive check-out feature yesterday: FIX: The check-in process may be very slow when you use the Source Control feature in Visual Studio 2005 Team System Read more here .

Published Thu, Sep 09 2007 9:53 PM by neno

Filed under: For Software Developers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), Tips and Tricks, Team Foundation Version Control, Version 2005, Bugs/Issues and Hotfixes, Issues and Hotfixes

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