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• FIX: TFS 2008: Delete lost when you merge from delete-branch to trunk

  > KB article > Hotfix download Posted Jul 10 2008, 06:22 PM by neno with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, Team Foundation Version Control, Version 2008, For IT-Administrators, Bugs/Issues and Hotfixes, Issues and Hotfixes

• Your TFS user base is growing? Scale up or out!

  Are you concerned about performance? You can scale out by... splitting your single-server TFS installation in an separate application tier and data tier (dual-server-configuration) . moving the data warehouse (SQL Server Analysis Services) database to... Posted Jul 09 2008, 07:52 PM by neno with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: TFS Server Administration, For IT-Administrators, Installation & Configuration

• 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... Posted Jul 09 2008, 07:48 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: TFS Server Administration, For IT-Administrators, Troubleshooting, Issues and Hotfixes, Installation & Configuration

• 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) Have a look at the available troubleshooting documentation on MSDN : For connection trouble have a look at: Troubleshooting... Posted Jul 09 2008, 07:45 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, For IT-Administrators, TFS Administration, Troubleshooting, Issues and Hotfixes, Installation & Configuration

• Screen Gallery: Creating a Team Project in TFS 2008

  Screenshots from a successful team project creation. Posted May 11 2008, 06:30 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, Screen Galleries, Version 2008, For IT-Administrators

• Screen Gallery: Upgrading WSS 2.0 to WSS 3.0

  You updated to TFS 2008, but since the upgrade process doesn't touch your already installed WSS you are responsible for upgrading it yourself. Official Guidance: Upgrading SharePoint Products and Technologies for Team Foundation Server Step 1: Run... Posted May 11 2008, 01:40 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, Screen Galleries, Version 2008, For IT-Administrators, Project Portal and Team Communication

• Screen Gallery: Installing TFS Power Tools 2008

  Screenshots from a successful Power Tools installation Step 1: Installing Windows PowerShell Step 2: Installing TFS Power Tools Posted May 11 2008, 01:29 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, Downloads, Screen Galleries, Version 2008, For IT-Administrators

• Screen Gallery: Installing Team System Web Access (TSWA) 2008

  Screenshots of a successful Team System Web Access (TSWA) installation. Requires: Team Explorer 2008 to be installed. Open TSWA to verify it's working: Posted May 11 2008, 01:27 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, Screen Galleries, Team System Web Access (TSWA)

• Screen Gallery: Installing Team Build 2008

  Screenshots from a successful Team Build installation Posted May 11 2008, 01:15 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: TFS Server Administration, Screen Galleries, For Release Managers, Team Build Server

• Screen Gallery: Installing TFS 2008 (single-tier)

  Screenshots of a successful TFS 2008 singe-tier installation. Step 1: Installing IIS Step 2: Installing SQL Server 2005 And verify it's working: Apply SQL Server 2005 SP2: Step 3: Installing TFS 2008 Posted May 11 2008, 01:13 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: TFS Server Administration, Screen Galleries

• 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... Posted May 07 2008, 12:19 AM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, For Infrastructure Architects, Version 2005, TFS Reporting, Bugs/Issues and Hotfixes

• Team Foundation Server 2008 trial expired?

  If you can't connect to your TFS anymore one reason might be that the trial expired. To find you how many days you have left of the trial and to extend the trial you need the TFS Version Detection utility . Starting 10 days before expiration you'll... Posted Mar 10 2008, 12:43 PM by neno with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration

• What's the difference between Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) 3.0 and Office SharePoint Server (MOSS) 2007?

  The answer lies in a very detailed Excel sheet: http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepointtechnology/HA101978031033.aspx?pid=CL100636421033 (Thanks to Richard for pointing me to it) Posted Feb 28 2008, 09:42 AM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, TFS Administration, Project Portal and Team Communication

• 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... Posted Feb 20 2008, 12:42 AM by neno with | with 1 comment(s) 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

• 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... Posted Feb 12 2008, 07:01 PM by neno with | with 3 comment(s) 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

• Can't find Team Foundation Server 2008 Standard Edition?

  TFS 2008 is released! Well… at least the Workgroup and Trial Editions are available. And the Standard Edition won’t be available until January (when the product keys are available as well). So the solution for now Microsoft recommends you to use the Trial... Posted Nov 22 2007, 12:21 AM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), Unreleased, TFS Server Administration, Downloads, Tips and Tricks, Version 2008, For IT-Administrators

• Whitepaper: Operations Guidance for Team Foundation Server

  Summary: You can manage your deployment of Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team Foundation Server more effectively if you create your own operations plan. As you create your plan, you should understand key elements of the architecture of Team Foundation... Posted Oct 05 2007, 02:25 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, Downloads, Training and Learning, Tips and Tricks, Version 2005, For IT-Administrators, TFS Administration

• 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... Posted Sep 07 2007, 12:46 PM by neno with | with no comments 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

• Changing TFS email notifications to link to Team System Web Access

  Thanks to this MSDN Forums post I was able to change the link included in every TFS notification e-mail to point to TSWA instead of the project portal. Here’s the full story: When using project alerts to get notified about work item changes you... Posted Aug 31 2007, 04:44 PM by neno with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: For Project Managers, TFS Server Administration, TFS Work Item Tracking, Tips and Tricks, Team Foundation Version Control, Version 2005, Project Management with TFS, TFS Administration, Project Portal and Team Communication, Team System Web Access (TSWA), TFS Customization, Notification and Alerts

• How to remove someone else's workspace in TFS

  A customer asked: “During my vacation my collegue was working on my machine and mapped the solution file to D:\Projects. Now I returned and wanted to map the solution to that folder as well, which obviously doesn’t work since it is already... Posted Aug 30 2007, 05:59 PM by neno with | with no comments Filed under: For Software Developers, For Project Managers, Team Foundation Server (TFS), TFS Server Administration, Tips and Tricks, Team Foundation Version Control, Version 2005, TFS Administration