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Installing & Configuring Team Foundation Client (aka Team Explorer)
Caution: Make sure to carefully read the Installation Guide before installing this software. What do I need it for? Access to TFS Note: A plain Visual Studio still needs Team Explorer to be able to talk to TFS. It installs: a tiny Visual Studio with only...
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 ...
Hardware Recommendations for Team Foundation Server 2008
What hardware do I need to run TFS? Well, it depends on how much load you are going to generate. But what is a solid hardware configuration to start? Microsoft recommends for the Single-Server installation of TFS: Additionally they recommend switching...
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...
TFS Tip: Enabling Work Item meta data filtering
Beginning with TFS 2008 SP1 you can specify that only the necessary part of the Work Item meta data will be transferred to the client caches, e.g. not the meta data for project you have no permission on. This is not done by default. You can read all the...
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...
Your TFS user base is growing? Scale up or out!
Are you concerned about performance? You can scale out by... installing a TFS proxy which will cache all version control downloads and therefore reduce the load on your TFS app tier. splitting your single-server TFS installation in an separate application...
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...
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...
Team Foundation Proxy - Your friend for distributed development teams
Since you can only deploy one master TFS server and replication mechanisms are not supported you might consider using a TFS Proxy server, which caches the downloads from the Team Foudation Version Control. Functionality / What it does: Cache downloads...
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