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Recent update: 2008-3-21

How can I easily close multiple workitems at once

89 byte By RobReiss at 2008-3-7
Is there a way to select multiple work items and set there state to "closed" all at once?

Dumb Question Dept - how do I "delete" a public build from the list?

585 byte By MichaelShorten at 2008-3-6
Scenario: I perform a team build as a "smoke" test and decide to mark it's quality as rejected. The team makes changes and the second "smoke" team build is successful. Since the changes are logged into Version Control, I don't need the first build hanging around. How do I delete it? There ...

How to delete WorkItems?

75 byte By LucasC at 2008-3-5
Hi, Is there any way to delete a workItem created by mistake? Thanks

Checking in a "checkout" lock on a branch?

237 byte By KeithHill at 2008-3-3
Wow this strikes me as odd. If I want to "lock" a branch, say a checkout lock, I then have to "checkin" that checkout lock. That's a tad confusing. I would have guessed that applying a lock was an immediate action like applying a label.

File/Folder-level security

1189 byte By James1 at 2008-3-1
Hi all,I'm not sure whether this question should goes into VSS2005 or TS, but we have high requirements on security.Let's assume we created Team Project, and 5 developers are working on it. However, only 2 senior developers are authorized to access some core source codes, and the rest should ...

Confusion when the Merge target solution is not loaded

575 byte By KeithHill at 2008-2-28
Merging when the source branch solution is loaded into VS and the target branch isn't throws you off for a moment because you know there should be pending changes but there aren't any. At least not until you load the target branch solution. This is a rough-edge IMO. What if I merge branches ...

Undoing a changeset?

461 byte By KeithHill at 2008-2-27
How do you back out of a changeset? I was experimenting with branches and merging and I made on a change on a branch when I intended the change for the trunk version. BTW, I can see this being a problem because the VS editor MDI tabs only give a filename (not directory) and so does the solution ...

cannot create a new team project

7371 byte By Atsu at 2008-2-26
Hello. I installed TFS successfully into single machine and could connect to TFS using TFSSETUP account. But once I tried to create a new team project, I got an error message. "Project creation failed with error: "Initialization failed for plugin(s): 'Microsoft.Pcw.wss'"" The TFSSETUP account ...

verify WSS permissions

714 byte By chooch at 2008-2-25
after making it through a couple of 32000 errors and reinstalling everything in the correct order, I now got VSTFS to install successfully.now when I try to connect to the TFS server using TFS client I get "You are not authorized" errors. based on what I have seen in this forum I think the ...

TFS installation fails - NOT 3200

10976 byte By mhojlund at 2008-2-24
Hello all,I'm trying to install TFS (single server) and I would be grateful for any help as I'm having a problem; as soon as I start the installation, the setup program exits with an error dialog:"A problem has been encountered while loading the setup components. Canceling setup."The contents ...

Team build & Testing

695 byte By Jonesie at 2008-2-23
My Team Build is failing when it executes the tests. Looking at the TeamBuild.proj file I can see: <TestingFlag>true</TestingFlag> <!-- TEST ARGUMENTS If the TestingFlag is set to true then the following is relevant Metadatatest file path - mandatory Testlist name, a test list ...

Get error while install Team Foundation Server

484 byte By AndyKwok at 2008-2-22
I am trying to install Team Foundation Server into a Windows Server 2003 VPC.It already install the VS.NET 2005 B2, SQL CTP April 2005. The Team Foundation Server create a AD Application Domain is ok, however, once it create application database tier, it prompte me an error.Error 32000. The ...

Backup Utility not working after TFS installed on Windows Server 2003 Std Edition SP1

1029 byte By DNADashboards at 2008-2-22
I have installed Team Foundation Server (single-server deployment) and Team Foundation client, on a Windows Server 2003 Std Edition with SP1 with all windows updates. Installation was successful, I can create projects etc no problem.This was a clean install on a DELL Poweredge 800 with RAID 1 ...

How to show Work items on portal site?

334 byte By BillSabey at 2008-2-21
Can I add a display of the current work items list to the portal site? Added a new work item to the team project in VS. Saved. Opened portal, opened Project Management, opened Project checklist. Spreadsheet does not show new work item. Is there a way to force regen of posted docs? (this was ...

Download Team Foundation Server

308 byte By LuisValencia at 2008-2-20
Can I get a link to download the beta2 of Team Foundation Server?I have vs 2005 beta 2 suite but it seems it doesnt have the team foundation server.I downloaded 3.6gb for nothing?I am not MSDN subscriber? but I think that downloading betas and use them for learning must not be ...

Cannot rename folders in Source Control

662 byte By Taylor at 2008-2-20
I am using VS Team Server 2005. It installed fine on a 2003 Standard Server box.I created a workspace and mapped it to a local directory on my development machine (XP SP2) called c:\imaxwell projects.When I open Source Control Explorer and I click on the new folder button. Nothing appears to ...

Another "Currituck.WITs" failed

9394 byte By borge3000 at 2008-2-19
Initially project creation failed due to a problem with Rosetta, which I solved. But when I tried to create a project (with the same name) again it failed with the exception trace at the bottom.Creating a new project with another name works fine. Is there a way to clean up the database (or ...

Project site error - Unable to locate control: ctl00oReport

861 byte By BillSabey at 2008-2-18
on Portal site, opened Project Documents, viewed the project list, closed, click Home to return to main page.error dialog is returned with msg: Unable to locate control: ctl00oReportCellBuild and Quality indicators web parts show scroll bars. The following error is displayed under Bug rates ...

Doc open returns blank doc to non TS client

360 byte By BillSabey at 2008-2-17
Tried downloading the spreadsheets in the project management section of the portal site. On an XP PC without any VSTS bits installed, they download empty.Is this due to some Excel/TSFS integration missing on the client PC? A sharepoint user would not normally assume they need to install ...

Change the Root Directory for Source Control

765 byte By DavidMullin at 2008-2-16
Is there any way to change the root directory used by the Source Control. I was trying to fetch one of my Team Build Configurations, and I was prompted to select a directory (because it said it didn't have one mapped). I thought I was picking a directory for that specific Build, so I went and ...

Can't do Team Build with Tests

260 byte By DavidMullin at 2008-2-15
Whenever I try to run a Team Build that contains a test suite, the Build operation fails. When I look at the result, it says "An error occured during publish operation." What does that mean, and how do I rectify it? Thanks in advance. David Mullin

MS Guidance on Naming Conventions for Workspaces, Branches, Shelvesets, Labels, etc

279 byte By KeithHill at 2008-2-15
It would be nice if TF provided some suggested naming guidance for various nameable items like: Workspace Branch Shelveset Label It might also be nice to provide guidance on suggested directory structures like: $/Branches/Rel1.0 $/Trunk/Docs $/Trunk/Src

Team Build and build event script macros

644 byte By KirkRader at 2008-2-15
We make extensive use of pre- and post-build event scripts in our Visual Studio solutions. In those scripts, we make extensive use of the pre-defined macros that Visual Studio provides, e.g. $(SolutionDir), $(ProjectDir), etc. Team Build fails to build our solutions correctly because those ...

Unshelving error

115 byte By KeithHill at 2008-2-15
When I try to unshelve one of my shelvesets I get: "Error - No changes unshelved." Any ideas what might cause this?

Install Error

621 byte By GlenProfeta at 2008-2-15
I made it to almost the very end when I recieved an error in the Beta 2 Team Foundation install. I believe I followed the install notes closely but received a very long error message referring to SQL reporting App pool. However, now I can't run the install again? I get the following ...

Does TFS have it's own SCM, separate from VSS

178 byte By BenWalling at 2008-2-14
After installing TFS, I installed VSS 2005 on the server (seemed the obvious thing to do). I'm now confused as to whether TFS has SCM built in, or whether it just uses VSS 2005.

Code Freeze and locking down source

431 byte By KeithHill at 2008-2-14
So one policy we usually follow is to lock down source at code freeze so that developers can't check in code changes willy-nilly. What is the prescribed method for doing this with the TF VCS? I'm guessing I would go to the project directory in the Source Control window and go to its ...

Groking Shelvesets

715 byte By KeithHill at 2008-2-13
So I created a shelveset that I called Bug-56-Fix. It contained a couple of files that were edited. I then logged in as a different user and unshelved Bug-56-Fix and tweaked one of the files in the original shelveset and another file that wasn't in the original shelveset. Now if I want to get ...

Team Foundation Server Settings - permissions

333 byte By BrunoSanchez at 2008-2-13
I have added three users to the team foundation server (adm, but only 2 can connect to the server. The thing is, that the one that can not connect was added to Permissions and now I cannot remove it from Permissions, but I can remove the user from the adm: ...

Email and IM alerts to capture problems

355 byte By IanMurphy at 2008-2-12
When the December CTP shipped I asked about the availability of forms to allow users to send bug reports and have them inserted directly into a bug database that could be allocated to workers.I was told that they would be in Beta 2 but I can't seem to locate them at all. Could someone direct ...

How to backup VSTS project?

174 byte By LeiJiang at 2008-2-11
Which databases are VSTS used in SQL Server? Could I just need to backup those database? Or there are other files or settings should I backup at the same time? Thanks!

How to setup permissions, users, etc. for a team project?

98 byte By LeiJiang at 2008-2-10
I can't find any document on this in MSDN Library. Is there any article on this? Thanks!

Project creation problem

7946 byte By IanMurphy at 2008-2-10
OKI'm probably being dense here. Installation is a single server with reporting services, sharepoint, SQL all running. I can get to the relevant pages.The client can see the server and ping it over the network. Both are in a W2K3 domain and the DC is running SP1 as is the VSTF Server.tfssetup ...

Creating conditions for check-in

418 byte By IanMurphy at 2008-2-8
I was asked yesterday about controlling how code is checked in. With products like TeamStudio, I can validate code during the check-in process and reject it if there are obvious anomolies.This led to a discussion as to what we could achieve with VSTF. Can I, for example, create a test under the ...

Folder names greyed out in SCC explorer

1092 byte By CarlDaniel at 2008-2-8
All folder names are greyed out in the source control explorer when I view it.At first it seemed that the greyed-out status was meant to indicate which folders have mappings and which don't, but it doesn't correspond to that.In the repository I have two top-level projects, both of which are ...

Could I work off line with Team Foundation Server?

456 byte By LeiJiang at 2008-2-7
It seems I could only connect to the TFS to work with work items such as bug, task, etc. Could I work off line with the Server? Sometimes I have to work at home. Could I make a dial-up connection to the remote server in company, see is there any bugs related to me, then disconnect from the ...

TfsReportDS Error

409 byte By KeithHill at 2008-2-7
While trying to look at the "Builds" report, I got this error:An error has occurred during report processing. (rsProcessingAborted)Cannot impersonate user for data source 'TfsReportDS'. (rsErrorImpersonatingUser)Logon failed. (rsLogonFailed)Logon failure: the user has not been granted the ...

Is it still the plan to rename h.exe to tf.exe?

150 byte By KeithHill at 2008-2-7
Just wondering because it just makes more sense and is easier to explain to people. tf.exe = team foundation whereas h.exe = hatteras, huh? :-)

Changeset versions: repository vs team projects

774 byte By KeithHill at 2008-2-7
Somehow I was surpised to see that the changeset version numbers are per repository and not per team project. With this in mind, I just don't see us typically having more than one team project per repository. That is, when I'm looking at changeset history and I'm working product Foo, I ...

Team build - building native C++

462 byte By CarlDaniel at 2008-2-6
I have a team project with an associated native C++ solution. I created a team build for this project, but when I tried to build it, it failed because the PSDK files are not present on the build machine (only TFS, Team Client and Team Build are installed).That's no problem - I can install the ...

Workspaces are broken

977 byte By CarlDaniel at 2008-2-6
I created a team project, created a distributed app in that project and checked it in.I then created another team project, created a native C++ app in that project and checked it in.Doing the above broke Team Build since both projects were associated with a single source control workspace. So I ...

Could TFS be installed without AD account?

332 byte By LeiJiang at 2008-2-5
To install TFS on my machine, I have to upgrade my Windows 2003 machine to a Active Directroy Domain Controller and add DNS Server, Application Server role to it. However, after the upgrade, my machine becomes really slow(my machine only has 1GB memory).Could I install TFS without Active ...

Warehouse processing problems

871 byte By LucasC at 2008-2-5
Hi,I'm running TFS over a Virtual PC, and the OLAP Services eats my CPU most of the time. I found a post ( http://forums.microsoft.com/msdn/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=3063) and a blog about this problem ( http://blogs.msdn.com/buckh/archive/2005/04/19/409886.aspx). But after I changed this setting to ...

Setting up Alerts

661 byte By slee at 2008-2-4
My install (single-server) of Team System was very smooth, except for a small glitch that I received when I inputted my smtp server. It stated that it could not connect to the smtp server, however, I was able to ping it without any problem.I thought it might correct itself, but when I try to ...

What SC do you guys (Microsoft) use internally?

388 byte By EmilDamian at 2008-2-4
HiI have a performance problem with a 'Get latest version' command.There are 4000 files in the project and a get latest version command is about 20 minutes (with the latest version already on the local folder).What am I doing wrong?PSserver machine 2 xeon 2.4 mhz, 2gb ram (for app-tier si ...

Performance issue with Get Lastest Version

388 byte By EmilDamian at 2008-2-4
HiI have a performance problem with a 'Get latest version' command.There are 4000 files in the project and a get latest version command is about 20 minutes (with the latest version already on the local folder).What am I doing wrong?PSserver machine 2 xeon 2.4 mhz, 2gb ram (for app-tier si ...

TFS Installation is TOO Convoluted, Complicated, and Prone to Error

206 byte By AdamTatusko at 2008-2-4
The Team Foundation Server installation is way too convoluted, complicated, and prone to error. I sincerely hope that it will be streamlined when the RTM release occurs later this year. What do you think?

TFS Install failed!!!

669 byte By jvanulden at 2008-2-3
My installation failed and now I can't seem to find a way to remove TFS &/or repair the installation. I am using Server 2003 enterprise, SQL Server 2005 CTP April, latest Sharepoint Services, have the necessary accounts and all required services are running. I installed this on a clean ...

Lost version control mapping in Team Explorer tool window

898 byte By KeithHill at 2008-2-3
I created a team project called Foo. Then I created a workspace via the command line called Main that mapped $/ to C:\Projects\Foo. It turns out that mapped the root of the repository which I discovered after I added some directory not to $/Foo but to $/. So I remapped $/Foo to C:\Projects\Foo. ...

Deleting a Team Project

266 byte By LucasC at 2008-2-2
Hi, is there any way to delete a Team Project created by me? From Team Explorer exists the remove option but I couldn't find one to delete all the different parts of a Team Project (SCC, Project Portal, Work Items, etc). Is it possible? Thanks a lot LucasC

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