Recent update: 2008-3-21
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janko at 2008-3-7
Hi, I got the following warning log: Event Type: WarningEvent Source: TFS WarehouseEvent Category: NoneEvent ID: 3000Date: 4/25/2006Time: 5:49:05 PMUser: N/AComputer: TFSDescription:TF53010: An unexpected condition has occurred in a Team Foundation component. The information contained here ...
Hi, I have a question regarding Documents checkin and checkout via TFS Client. As you know, methodology docs are created on the Team Portal. Document checkin checkout mechanism works perfectly fine if you perform it through the portal. But the problem is, we can not perform the same exercise ...
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GuyF at 2008-3-5
hi upon trying to install the RTM version I've encountered a problem which I can't overcome. in the installation phase (after the service/reports/smtp definitions) i get an err message : "Error 32000. the commandline "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Microsoft Shared\web server ...
I get an error when i try to create a team project. The error occurs only when i try to create the team project from a certain client. The strange thing is that creating team projects with that client works on another tfs server.In detail: What i have:1. TFS (TFS RTM Workgroup Edition, Domain ...
Hi, I am using team foundation server for workgoups. The server is windows 2003 in a workgroup, we are not using active directories. The initial login to TFS was with the admin account to set up the users. I added all the users but cannot get a login screen. TFS always logs me in as admin. If I ...
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BettyS at 2008-2-28
How do I allocate unallocated disk space to my c drive.
I read http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2006/04/10/event_filtering.aspx with great interest. Although I dont fully understand how to enumerate the events I'm happy to know this list. I have downloaded the March version 2006.03 of the SDK. Herein I cant find a description of these events - ...
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dzimmy at 2008-2-26
A user of ours logs into his box and opens up VSTS and TFS always thinks he is a different owner. We don't see this on any of the other clients. For example, if he goes to edit a workspace, it shows that the owner is the tfs setup account rather than the logged in user. As a consequence all ...
If using Windows groups, it appears that there is a bug in VSTS.TFS seems to query the Windows Security system once for a list of users belonging to each group.When you add a new user to the Windows Group, TFS doesn’t get the update – i.e. it’s out of date. The result is that you won’t be ...
When I try to connect to the server to perform some user management (command line), I get the following error: GSSUTIL - TFS Group Security Client Tool(c)Copyright, Microsoft Corporation, 2004. All rights reserved. Connecting to the Team Foundation Server Web service...Client found response ...
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rball at 2008-2-23
I am having trouble creating a team project with the RTM of TFS from a client machine. I can create a team project from the server itself (logged in as myself), just not from my machine (also logged in as myself). My machine is XP Pro and I have Windows Firewall disabled. I have tried deleting ...
Is there a way to reverse a checkout from an admin tool. We have two situations. 1. A developer checks out some code but forgets to check it in. They then leave for the weekend, but a situation arrises where another developer needs to fix an issue. We need to reverse the checkout of the first ...
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Mimir at 2008-2-22
Who kown how to copy a team project for one TFS server to another? I want to copy all the codes, documents, configurations, source control history, work items, changeset, reports and other content of this team project. I know it is not possible to copy the user and access control list entirely. ...
In my own process template I have a group of users called Developers ([PROJECT]\Developers) with the only one permission of PROJECT.GENERIC_READ = Allow, and I have a work item type Bug with the starting state Submitted without any limitations For or Not for some users/groups (i.e. any user can ...
I dropped the BUILTIN\Administrators group from Team Foundation Administrators group and now I can't do anything in TFS. I was trying to exclude all the administrators of the box from showing up in Work Item Assigned To field. I'm a member of the Administrators group on the box. How can I add ...
This morning I'm unable to connect to TFS - starting up Visual Studio I end up with an empty Team Explorer. Clicking the Connect to Team Server button, brings up the usual dialog, and when I try to connect I get a message box: Microsoft Visual Studio Team Foundation Error Object reference ...
I'm not sure that there's anything "wrong" here, but it seems worth asking about - I noticed in the event log for my TFS host that quite a number of errors and warnings were logged within the first 15-20 seconds of operation following a reboot. Subsequent to that, everything's ...
in the team explorer, each project have a documentation file folder, it consists of serveral kinds of documentation, such as developing, testing, project management and etc , I want to set differrent permission to these documents, some people can only read the developing documents, some people ...
Hi all, I have created several libraries and set them visible in the Quick Launch bar in Sharepoint. But I find they are not sorted by character, but seem sorted by the creation time. Is there any way to sort them by character, that means, sort alphabetically? Thanks, Leon ...
I add a project alert to my present project, when the dailybuild of the project finished, I hope to receive a E-mail to me, so I add my E-mail address to the project alert box, but I received no E-mail about this operation, why? what other things I need to do? expect your help! Thanks!
I had a working version of the team foundation server running on Windows 2003 OS. Now I am getting an error "The request failed with http status 503 : service unavailable ". I searched various forums for the resolution. The solution that I got was 1.restart the TFS website in inetmgr ...
Does the Source Control system have any Admin tool or is everything meant to work through Source Control Explorer?
Can TFS build .Net 1.1? products
My group will most likely want to access the Version Control system from our current build system. Is there a command line inteface that can access the Version Control system?
How do I check search for All files that a certian user has checked out
Hi for every one, I want to delete some team projects, any idea how can I do that?, i Can't deleting for source control, so any idea? Thanks!
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Jensk at 2008-2-14
Hi.Hope someone can answer why our TFS server behaving as it does. We are using TFS RTM 1.0 Trial, while waiting for the cds to be distributed If the user is not member of any TFS group, the user has no access to the TFS server at all. - Great this works as it should. If the user is a member of ...
I added a document using Team explorer to the \documents\development folder. Someone else modified that document offline and then emailed it back to me to put back in the system. I then drug the file back to the folder in team explorer and it asked me if I wanted to replace it. Since I have the ...
We are accessing TFS through remotely. But we are not able to get all functionality as it should get no matters we logged as Administrator or redear.Bellow two are the features that are not accessible : Documents and Reports Node of Team explorer getting Cross(X) with red. Not able to see the ...
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jamil at 2008-2-12
1. If I try to add a new web part to the Home page (by clicking Modify Shared Page), I get an error ("an unexpected error has occurred) ? Is the Home page non-editable .. ? 2. Seems that the Remaining Work report in the Home page was created using a Page Viewer web part. Clicking on other ...
When some usrs try to publish the test results, they are informed that it is an unauthorized operation and the publish can not be completed. I am the administor of the TFS. And when I do the same operatio, it succeeds. How to solve this issue?
I have had TFS RTM installed for a week now and today I looked at the DB Size in SQL 2005. My Data Tier has a 130GB drive and 42GB of it is allocated for the TempDB!!! Is this normal? My next largest DB is the VersionControl DB at 1.4GB. Thanks for your help, Nate
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Klown at 2008-2-10
We are creating an artifact provider and I am having a hard time finding documentation about the artifact type registration process. I know that there is a registration service, and I know that I need to create a xml file to register the type. What I cant seem to find is a description of what ...
When a project is created, we want anyone in our company to be able to visit the Sharepoint site created for the project to see status and information on that. Is there a way that I can automatically apply read permissions to a group when a project is created instead of having to go in and ...
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dealkk at 2008-2-8
i can't add or delete webpart when i try to custimize homepage. I am an admin. how to find out why? It seem like my application server can't connect to the database server. i look at the window event. it say can't connect to STS_Content_TFS. I can view the portal ok when customize webpart ...
We have TFS (RC version) installed in a two tiered manner with the applicaiton on one server and the database on another. I was informed this morning that the server for the application components is going off lease. My question is what is the best practice for backing up and restoring this ...
We have recently done a "consolidation" of servers, and therefore had to move our TFS from one server to another. No big deal, but what we are finding to be a pain is the fact that when setting the Working directory for a project (setting the workspace) we are finding that the new ...
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Peds at 2008-2-7
Hi, Just found the following link on the MSDN relating to performing a nightly build using VSTS: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnvs05/html/NtBldTmSrv.asp Is there any point in having documentation on the web if it is quite blatently incorrect or at best ...
hi I want to get an alert mail whenever any changes occured in team foundation server. so i checked the checkbox in project alert ,but it was not working . i am not getting any mails. can anyone give me the solution for this Thanks Rithu
hi Project alert is not working. can anyone tell the procedures to configure that ... Thanks Rithu
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tolyy at 2008-2-6
Where i can see ,what version workgroup or trial installed?
Hi, I have TFS Beta 3 client installed. For the first time I tried to connect to TFS, it prompted me for user/pass. I entered and also checked "remember me" checkbox. Now everytime i connect to the TFS, it doesn't ask user/pass to me. Now I want to change the user to connect to same ...
TFS can be accessed through a symbolic name like teamsystem.company.com. This is accomplished by creating a dns entry for the name teamsystem.company.com and then running the activatedt command with this name as the argument on the application tier. We done this on our TFS-server to be able to ...
I need to move my TFS installation to another machine, typically this would be a simple "Restore based move", but there's a complication: my sharepoint content database is messed up and can't be backed up (SSMS gripes about the full text index being offline- indeed, it seems to be ...
i need to connect to active directory by specify a user name and password in asp.net
The RootNode.Icons property holds icons to display in the Team Explorer tree. In my custom Team Explorer plugin I have run in to a strange problem regarding this property. When my plugin is initialized and icons are added to the imagelist, and nodes have their IconIndex set, the icons are ...
Is there a way to define a TFS user group to belong to another user group in the template? I guess if this is doable it's got to be in GroupsandPermissions.xml?
Hi, In a team foundation server, we created a team project. Added three groups in the project say G1, G2, G3. Added myself in all three groups and made sure that I am not part of any other groups especially "Project Administrators" and "Team Foundation Administrators". For ...
If one were to [inadvertently] delete a file from the Team System Project Portal, how would one get it back?J ...
I've created my own TFS template and WSS template based on the out-of-the-box TFS Agile templates. I'm testing these two templates by creating projects based on them. So far it's working out fine for the most part. I noticed all the TFS related web parts are not showing up though. I can see ...