Following comes from Senior Support Engineer Nitish Nagpal. Problem: One of my customers was facing an issue with the TFS2010 Team Web Access in a collection that was ported over from another TFS 2010 install. They were not experiencing this issue...

Following comes from Senior Support Engineer Nitish Nagpal. Problem: This is most common when you are initially learning Team Foundation Server, or if you are doing a lot of changes outside of the IDE. If you delete fi les from your local file...

Following comes from Senior Support Engineer Nitish Nagpal. I have seen scenarios where TFS Engineers suggest changing the startup account of SQL Service(s) but often do not provide full instructions for doing it. As a result, customer will often...

Following comes from Senior Support Engineer Deepak Mittal. These are some troubleshooting tips which you may find useful in some scenarios. We've found them useful during troubleshooting of several cases reported to us. When you migrate your TFS...

Following comes from Senior Support Engineer Deepak Mittal. Issue description: You may notice an error while building SharePoint workflow project with Team Build 2010. Detailed error message: Default Configuration and Platform 0 error(s),...

Following comes from Senior Support Engineer Deepak Mittal. Issue Description: You may notice junk characters in the Team Build 2010 log while copy operation on the dlls. Error messages were something like this: Overwrite D:\Builds\Microsoft...

…and it’s here . Please review the update page and the linked KBs on it for further details.

Our support team recently worked with Ben Ari from the Microsoft Forefront Unified Access Gateway (UAG) support team ( here’s his BLOG ) on a customer issue where we needed to provide client access to TFS through this gateway. Following are the steps...

Download now from http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=53c27216-c4f0-48b6-9bed-fe1718a2e3b0 Brian has some more details over on his BLOG about what’s in this release.

Make the move to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 With modern features like state-of-the-art version control, integrated bug tracking and flexible build automation, Team Foundation Server 2010 ensures the delivery of quality software faster...

The Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework team recently announced an innovative “FREE” code sample request service for customers. This service is a proactive way for our developer community to obtain code samples for certain programming tasks directly from...

The Visual Studio “Help” team received significant feedback requesting a Help experience that is more familiar to what shipped in previous versions of Visual Studio. Therefore, for Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 (SP1), they have been working hard to...

Allen Clark, the topic’s author, needs your help in evaluating how well our content improvements work for you: "I've been working on streamlining some content in an effort to make it easier for you to get the information that you need. The first...

FYI – We just released a new version of Team Explorer Everywhere! You can read about it here , and download it here . We are eager to get feedback from everyone. If you use Team Explorer Everywhere then we would love it if you could give the release a...

A few weeks ago I wrote a post about the need for a HOTFIX when upgrading to TFS 2010 from 05\08 . A few days ago we re-released TFS 2010 because of this issue. To quote Brian Harry: “The severity of the issue is bad enough that we decided to re-release...

  If you are in the process of upgrading to TFS 2010 from any earlier version, please be aware of this HOTFIX: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2135068 It is a very specific HOTFIX in that it needs to be applied *after* your upgrade to 2010 is complete...

  Yesterday we posted our first version of Microsoft Visual Studio Scrum 1.0!  You can download the template from the Visual Studio Gallery here . It was designed to be used with TFS 2010 only (uses hierarchical work items, and specific link...

  Two great posts this week from Grant Holiday on the TFS 2010 warehouse. I encourage you to check them out! Administrative Report Pack for Team Foundation Server 2010 Monitoring the TFS Data Warehouse - FAQ -Trev

  Worked a case recently where the customer was upgrading to TFS 2010 (from 08). During the upgrade – the last part specifically when the new project collection was being created – we received an error with these details (taken from the log): [Info  ...

  Today my certificate expired on one of my SSL TF servers. I decided to become my own certificate authority so I went through the process of installing the certificate authority, creating a request from IIS on the TF server, etc. I put the cert...

After upgrading to TFS 2010 (from TFS 2005 or 2008) users may experience an intermittent problem where they are not able to see any projects in source control explorer, and/or getting one of the following errors: TF14601 workspace doesn’t exist ...

From Chris Cooper…   This week we had a customer attempting to setup a Team Foundation Version Control Proxy for TFS 2010. He had followed the instructions in the install guide but was receiving the following error when trying to connect from Visual...

An interesting post from Coop (Chris Cooper) this week. -- Trev     This week I was asked if there was a way to restrict users from selecting certain iteration paths. For instance, he wanted Project Administrators to have the ability to place...

Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional will launch on April 12 but you can beat the rush and secure your copy today by pre-ordering at the affordable estimated retail price of $549, a saving of $250. If you use a previous version of Visual Studio or...

On occasion we here in TFS support are called upon to help a customer with their TFS subscriptions. The problems vary, but the one constant always seems to be that we (support) need to see their the TfsIntegration!tbl_subscription table. During a recent...