Content developed by: Chandra Sekhar Viswanadha Contetent reviewed by: Lakhminder Singh

Recently one of my customers ran into a TFS workspace issue. They were getting below error when they open TFS project in Visual Studio 2010: “TF14091: you cannot perform this operation on workspace. domain/eid are not the owner of the workspace” Issue...

Today, we published a KB article for a potential issue in Microsoft SQL Server 2008 & Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2 which is impacting the TFS. Please go through the below KB article for more details: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2668489

I was working with a customer on a critical situation case and customer was going through a strange errors: He actually wanted to move TFS 2010 from one server to another, in the process he renamed the server which was having SQL instance and we ended...

1. Install SQL 2008 R2, (SSAS,SSRS (install and configure reporting services in native mode) 2. Run the pre scan tool in the WSS 2.0 environment and once it succeeds back up the following content database and restore it in the new SQL 2008 R2 environment...

The Latest Power tools for Team Foundation Server 2010 are now available. Please go through the below link to download http://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/c255a1e4-04ba-4f68-8f4e-cd473d6b971f

Many times we run into a requirement when we have to export few tables from a database. Now it could be for sharing that information with someone else or sending it to the support guys. One of the easiest way to achieve same is by using SQL Import and...

To integrate a remote instance of SharePoint with TFS 2010, one of the requirements is to install and run the configuration wizard for the "Extension for SharePoint products" on the SharePoint instance that hosts the web application for the TFS project...

Recently, in one of my customer’s case I have seen an issue in which the TFS2010 application tier only wizard fails while creating the server databases with below error message: An exception was occurred while creating the server databases. The exception...

  Problem Description :- I came across a customer who is not able to configure TFS correctly because TFS Configuration database would fail to create. We looked in the profiler trace and we are seeing the SQL server throwing the following error while...

In CSS we regularly use a variety of command line tools for troubleshooting and maintenance of Team Foundation Server (TFS) and related technologies. This post provides a grouping of the most frequently used command which TFS administrators should keep...

This had been lying in my kitty for a long time now. Since the time I blogged about the various TFS upgrade paths ( Migration , In-Place and Import ), I have been asked about the SharePoint and SQL Reporting Services upgrade paths that should be considered...

In the recent days I came across a customer who had some old .VSD files (made of version 5 or older) when we try to upload this to document library in SharePoint using visual studio team explorer we have received the following error, and the documents...

Team Explorer Everywhere SP1 - the plugin that allows connectivity to Team Foundation Server from third party development environmen (Eclipse , IBM Rational Application Developer, etc,..) is not available. For more details on the release please check...

Many people have asked on How-To enable TFS 2010 style feature on the upgraded projects. Please visit following articles from Lakhminder which explains the process TFS 2010: Enable Test Case Management for upgraded Team Projects http://blogs...

I found this issue to be common while troubleshooting on my cases and found that w hen you go to team explorer and right click on folder in solution explorer, TFS 2008 version control security dialog shows blank UI after you install Service Pack 1 for...

This article is in continuation of my earlier post of how to rename a TFS collection http://blogs.msdn.com/b/tfssetup/archive/2010/09/15/how-to-rename-a-tfs-collection.aspx The earlier post only renames the TFS Collection but SharePoint...

I found this issue in TFS 2010 on live production server. Consider the following scenario. You are using Microsoft Team Foundation Server 2010 and you attempt to subscribe to an event (BuildStatusChangeEvent or BuildCompletionEvent, for example) using...

This walkthrough details the steps in configuring a Network Load balancing solution for Team Foundation Server 2010 Application tiers. With this release of TFS 2010, you could create an application tier farm and also configure network load balancing ...

I have been seeing see latency and performance problems in couple of scenarios, specifically while performing branching and merging When you run the TFS BPA tool, you may see an error message similar to the one provided below: The SQL database ...

I came across this issue in one of my cases and found that w hen I right click any of the project node in the Team Explorer 2008 and choose "Show Project Portal", I see the reporting page not being shown(the remaining work item part) and see error message...

I found this interesting stuff in one of my cases where customer was trying to to search for Work Items from within Team System Web Access and was getting the following error: "There is a problem on the server. Contact your Team Foundation Server administrator...

This is one of the interesting issues that I came across while trying a migration upgrade of TFS 2005 to TFS 2010, we have to reattach the old SharePoint content database to the new Windows SharePoint Services 3.0 instance on the TFS 2010 machine by running...

If you have a High availability solution enabled for Team Foundation Server 2010 using application tier NLB or if you are using Fully Qualified Domain name for your TFS 2010 instance and if you enable SharePoint after the initial configuration (ie, during...

When you install TFS 2010 and integrate with SharePoint 2010, when you try to browse the “Team Project Process Guidance” page within Visual studio, you might receive a “File Download” wizard with an option to “Save”...