Issue: While configuring Build controller you might see Http code 500 System.ServiceModel.ServiceActivationException" error in TFS Admin Console. Cause: This is due to the fact that Team Foundation Server Application Tier machine had has less than 5%...

  Even though it’s advisable to use a domain account as the service account for TFS and Sharepoint, in some rare cases there may be a need to use the system account – Network Service as the service account for running Sharepoint/TFS. The following...

Scenario: ============== There are multiple application tiers for TFS (either 2010 or 2012). The “changeserverid” commands when run on one of the app tiers will bring the complete TFS down. The reason is that the application tiers will have a different...

  Right from the launch of TFS 2012 a lot of users have been upgrading their previous version of TFS to the latest one. There have been a lot of queries around the possible and supported upgrade paths from their current version to TFS 2012. So we...

Scenario: The build controller and the build agents stop within few seconds, after started. Reason: The “Visual Studio Team Foundation Build Service Host 2012” service depends upon the “Remote Access Connection Manager” service and the “Telephony” service...

Scenario: The TFS 2010 is moved to a new hardware by following the steps from the documentation: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms404869(v=vs.100).aspx The project portals on the SharePoint have customized web parts. After the hardware move is...

Server Role – Public Database Role · System databases                   o Master database – Public, TFSExecRole · TSF Configuration database – Public,TFSExecRole · All...

Read through the current installation guide from MSDN – Download the latest installation guide from the MSDN and go through the same. Schedule Migration – Plan well in advance and also update all the people who will be affected by the upgrade about the...

  Recently, I have seen the below issue more frequently in which the TFS 2010 to TFS 2012 upgrade failed due to error in analysis services metadata. Below is the error message which I got: Error: ------- TF255356: The following error occurred when...

  Scenario : The “.rdl” files have to be moved from one Reporting services instance to another. This scenario arises when the report server database cannot be moved from source to destination SSRS instance, since already a report server database...

  Recently, we came across an issue in TEE 2012. Reports node is not displaying after connecting to the TFS 2012 from eclipse. And the reports are showing in Team explorer 2012 for the same user. The root problem is the loss of a permission in new...

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In Team Foundation Server 2010, for each collection there is a “ Current Default Folder Location ”. This is where there reports are shown on the Reports Manager page, when a project is created. The location can be either root i.e. “/” or “/FolderA” or...

On a Team Foundation Server instance hosting its Databases on a SQL 2008 R2 instance, If a copy of SQL 2008 Express edition is installed, the Team Foundation Server 2010 might lose connectivity to its SQL database, taking down the whole Team Foundation...

Recently, I have worked on a case in which the TFS Config import command fails with below error: Error description ------------------- [Error @15:50:30.677] [2012-03-12 21:13:13Z][Error] The event subscriber with SID 'domain\tfsservice' is not in Team...

Recently, I worked on TFS 2008 to TFS 2010 upgrade case and it failed during the project collection servicing with below error: Error message from Collection upgrade log: [Error @20:15:39.558] [2012-04-23 19:58:24Z][Error] schema.tsq Line 38989 Error...

  Sometimes when a project portal is opened, it shows the following error in the web parts: “Web Part Error : A web Part or Web Form Control on the Page cannot be displayed or imported. The type could not be found or it is not registered as safe...

Scenario: In an environment where the users/clients have to connect to Team Foundation Server located on a untrusted domain or on a different domain, the users/clients' are prompted to provide the TFS credentials to connect successfully. In such scenarios...

The Excel dashboards in SharePoint 2010 portal are not loading (spinning wheel displays) after installing the SP1 for SharePoint 2010. This is a known issue in SP1. This was fixed in the October 2011 cumulative update. You can download the hotfix from...

One of  the scenarios that I faced in couple of my cases when someone has a set of files checked out and locked, and the person goes on vacation or is otherwise unavailable. Until these locks are removed, no one else can check in these files. Someone...

Creating SharePoint Site for a Team Project For creating a SharePoint site for an existing Team Project, follow the steps: First of all, a test Team Project named “ SharePointSiteCreation ” is created as shown in the screenshot below...

  This article deals with integration of Team Foundation Server 2010 with Share Point 2010. The same holds good for other versions of Share Point (WSS 3.0, MOSS 2007 ). If you are installing the WSS3.0 with Team Foundation Server 2010 configuration...

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