Upgrading TFS and Lab Management from Beta2 to RC requires a few steps. After working with several customers, we saw that a checklist of all the tasks can be helpful. So we created a checklist of all the general tasks required, and also created a tool that will generate all the additional tasks required...

We have found that in some cases the registration of an upgraded build agents fails, with the following error: Error occurred while configuring TFSBuildServiceHost with Lab configuration. ExceptionType: MicrosoftTeamFoundation.Build.ClientBuildServiceHostAlreadyExistsException. ExceptionMessage: A...

TFS 2010 Release Candidate (RC) will be released later this month, and Lab Management will be included with it. We want to give you some time to get prepared for it, and we are releasing the Lab Management 2010 Beta2 to Release Candidate Upgrade Guide today. It is attached to this post as a word document...

The TFS Rangers team has just published a guide to help you get ready to upgrade from TFS 2008 to 2010 . This guide covers scenarios which may be encountered during and after the upgrade process. It provides examples of most common and potential issues. It covers scenarios related to general Upgrade...

Team Foundation Server Best Practice Analyser (BPA) a diagnostic tool (released as part of TFS 2010 Power Tools ) is now available for public download; see Brian Harry’s post on the announcement. You can download it from the MSDN Visual Studio Gallery . Lab Management checks are now also integrated...

Network isolation does not work on Windows Server 2008 R2 hosts if you are using Beta2 version of Visual Studio Team Lab Management. When you create an environment with network isolation on a 2008 R2 host and start it, you will get the following error: Network isolation timed out. Last known status...

Last updated: 12th May 2010 Welcome to the troubleshooting page for lab management in Visual Studio 2010. This is a repository of errors we have seen in different scenarios and the ways to fix it. You can either search for your error or browse by category. If your error is not on this list, please take...

Important : The instructions in this post only apply to the Beta2 version of Team Foundation Server 2010. For Beta1, see this post . If you are upgrading your Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2008 to Visual Studio Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta2 and want to enable Lab Management features...