For all those who are excited and interested to know how the new TFS 2010 installation would be, but did not get a chance to put your hands on it… here comes a detailed screen shot images from Romit on his first installation experience. For those who...

While installing Team Foundation Server you might see the following error: The Commandline '"C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server\Tools\TFRSConfig.exe" /setup /install /s "servername" /u "NT Authority\NetworkService...

With Team Foundation Server 2005 and 2008 installations, we come across a good number of generic errors. One such error is “Error 32000”. Here is a list of errors and the solutions that might help you. Note: before trying the solutions...

When you install Team Foundation Server 2008 to use an existing instance of SQL server Reporting services or if you have already installed and configured SQL server reporting services on the Application tier, you might encounter an error, Error 29112...

While upgrading Team Foundation Server from 2005 to 2008 with Slipstreamed SP1 you might experiance an error: Error 32000.The Commandline '"Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server\Tools\TfsDb.exe" upgrade /server:"SERVER"...

As part of upgrade, you might decide on upgrading SharePoint from 2.0 to 3.0. The SharePoint upgrade requires a prerequisite step of running a tool called “prescan.exe” which is shipped along with the WSS 3.0 redistributable or can be downloaded here...

Issue When a new TFS project is created, you might see the following error F30225: Error uploading report : Work Item with Tasks Exception Details: The Project Creation Wizard encountered a problem while creating reports on the SQL Server Reporting...

Issue When we restart the Team Foundation Server(The AT box, on a dual tier server), Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Task Scheduler service might not start automatically even if it is set to start automatically Resolution To resolve this...

As part of upgrading SQL 2005 to 2008, you are required to recreate the TFSwarehouse cube. When the Setupwarehouse.exe command is ran you might see the following error: "An unexpected error occurred: Error encountered when creating connection to Analysis...

Next couple of blogs are from Romitg, these are some of the interesting issues he had fixed: Issue When you try accessing Team Foundation Server using Team Explorer within the server, you might see a connection failure with error TF31005. Symptoms...

This is one of old issues that I came across while installing TFS 2005, but hope this might still help someone who are trying their hands with TFS the first time. While running TFS installation (AT if its a Dual Tier) you might get a error: Error:...

Vimal brings a short but valuable info: Of late I have been receiving calls from customers, who are not able to open the .Chm file whenever I ask them to look at the TFS Installation / administration guide, (Usually the TFS install and Admin guide...

This one comes from Vimal: You may notice an error message (given below) appearing in the version control, work item, work item templates. This result in Warehouse not processing, and errors occur while using source control TF30045: The instance information...

There aren't any known issues so far, but using separate reporting services instances for these applications (TFS & CRM) will avoid potential issues. Both these applications configure reporting services during installation. To know more on “how TFS...

This might sound very silly, but I had taken a good amount of time to solve with this issue. While running the installer you might hit an error: "TF220065: An error occurred while the Setup program was querying the settings from the server that is...

When you install Team Foundation Server 2008 + SP1 (Slipstreamed), the installation might fail with an error given below Error 28940.TFServerStatusValidator: Calling the Team Foundation Server ServerStatus Web service failed with 503 HTTP ServiceUnavailable...

While upgrading TFS 2005 to TFS2008 with SP1 slipstreamed (for instruction on Slipstreaming TFS SP1 to TFS 2008 installation media please download the latest TFS 2008 install guide from:http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=ff12844f...

While upgrading Team Foundation Server 2005 RTM to SP1, the pre-requisite is to install hotfix: KB 919156. If a Domain move (Environment move) is done before installing the hotfix, the installation might fail with an error Windows SharePoint Services...