Brett Keown brings us this series. We hope you find it helpful and contribute some suggestions for part 5. -Trev ------------------------------------------------------ There are lots of moving parts to Team Foundation Server.  With depth knowledge necessary in Active Directory, SharePoint, Analysis...

We have documented some scalability limitations for Team System Web Access in a white paper called Team System Web Access 2008 Scalability Limits . The white paper contains some configuration recommendations and limitations for TSWA. One of the recommendations is to limit the number of concurrent...

Wendell Phillips brings us today’s post about adding external build data to TFS. -Trev   I recently found a need to add build data to Team Foundation Server 2008 from an external build process.  TFS ordinarily only maintains and processes build information from Team Build processes linked to...

  http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/KB969210   As promised some time ago , we have now put this fix up for public consumption. You no longer need to contact Microsoft support in order to acquire this fix. We have also included localized copies of the fixed reports with this release, including...

Errors on reports rendered by SQL Server Reporting Services 2005 and 2008 will not give you the full details of the issue if you are browsing on a machine other than that hosting SSRS. Instead, you just get this: With SSRS 2005 you had to manually edit a web.config or run code (SQL or other) in order...

George Archer and Jim Saunders bring us today’s update about problems with TFS 2008 reports when using SSRS 2008… - Trevor We are aware of issues affecting several built-in reports for TFS 2008 if the TFS Data Tier is using SQL Server 2008. Due to changes in SQL Reporting and Analysis Services 2008 the...

Brett Keown is at it again… In TFS Developer Support, we lovingly call this process “The Big One”.  It is how we rebuild the TFSWarehouse database in the database engine and analysis services from a command line.  In Team Foundation Server 2008 there are a few changes as to how we rebuild the...

Set up *another* VPC today. This is my first personal install of TFS 2008 ATDT on Windows Server 2008 with WSS 3.0 and Katmai (SQL Server 2008). I say personal because I’ve set one up for someone else before. Anyway, I did as I always recommend to my customers… Start with CLEAN hardware (clean disk with...

The other day I was changing the service account passwords on my VPCs that I use for troubleshooting customer issues and decided just to run down the Team Explorer nodes and make sure everything was still running fine. In addition to the password changes that may have caused issues, our corporate policies...