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Recommendations for Virus Scanning on TFS computers
Anti-virus software can badly impact the performance of your Team Foundation Server. Therefore make sure the following folders are excluded from scanning for viruses: TFS Version Control Cache Folder Team System Web Access Cache Folder SQL database folders...
TSWA: Report view not showing all work items
If you have more than 100 work items in a query and you use Tools » Report View to prepare the list for printing you might notice that not all work items are shown on the report. Here’s what Hakan Eskici , the father of Web Access, has to say about this...
Hotfix available: The Create Unit Test dialog opens up empty
Did you ever experience one of the following behaviours: The Create Unit Test dialog opens up empty, and no interfaces are shown in the list Clicking on the Code Coverage Tab in the .testrunconfig file makes the dialog box disappear. A hotfix was made...
Discover users without Visual Studio SP1 installed
Far too often people install Visual Studio SP1 before Team Explorer 2008 and therefore TE remains unpatched in the RTM state. Luckily the ambitious TFS Admin can use the TFS Server Manager from the Power Tools package ( TfsServerManager.exe in the Power...
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...
Security Update for TSWA 2008 SP1
From Hakan Eskici's blog : A security issue has been identified with Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 and we have recently published an update that fixes it. Installation Notice Please note that this is a full release, so you will need to uninstall...
How many users can Team System Web Access support?
A: Microsoft posted a white paper on this. From the whitepaper: "Test results indicate that Web Access starts to hit the upper limits once the total number of work item objects in the memory is around 180. This translates to approximately 100 concurrent...
How TFSDeleteProject Works
There are some areas where data may remain behind after you use TFSDeleteProject . The TFS Warehouse is untouched. In order to remove the data from the warehouse, it must be rebuilt. (It is important to notice that, when the warehouse is rebuilt all the...
Changing TFS emails to link to Team System Web Access – Part 2
If you click on a hyperlink in an TFS notification mail the following (read-only) web page comes up instead of a nice looking Team System Web Access dialog. Let's change that! Objective Make sure all links in the notification mails sent by TFS point...
Q: How do I switch Team System Web Access back to English?
Team System Web Access 2008 SP1 comes equipped with 10 languages for its UI that will be displayed depending on your Internet browsers regional settings. You can set a language - independently what your browser settings by opening the Options dialog from...
Turn off label deletion when deleting builds
By default a build label is deleted when the corresponding build gets deleted. In TFS 2008 SP1 you can change that behavior by modifying the web.config file (on the TFS AT in folder %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server\Web...
Workaround for TF30207 when creating a new team project and red X on Reports in Team Explorer
Problem description : You can't create new team projects. You see a red X on Report in Team Explorer, which you are sure is not related to permission issues (as described here ). Using tfsadminutil.exe configureconnections /view you discover that...
How to fix TF53010: Create OLAP failed
Problem description : After a clean install of TFS 2008 SP1 I was wondering about this message in the event log telling me there was a problem with the cube: TF53010: The following error has occurred in a Team Foundation component or extension: Date ...
Q: Can I install SP3 for SQL Server 2005 on my TFS?
Answer : Yes, you are free to do so. Microsoft has done "functional, perf and stress testing" on TFS 2008 SP1 on SQL Server 2005 SP3 to ensure it works properly. Additionally we installed and tested it on our TFS instances without any issues...
VS & TFS SP1 - What to apply on which machine
Often the questions is raised which service pack applies to which VSTS/TFS component: Machine TFS SP1 VS SP1 TFS single server / TFS Application Tier Yes Yes, if Visual Studio is installed. Install this prior to TFS SP1. TFS Data Tier No No Team System...