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TFS & FQDN problems

I've seen a rash of reports lately with people having problems with TFS when configured to use a Fully Qualified Domain Name (FQDN).  There are certain extranet scenarios when you need to configure TFS this way.  The problem has been isolated to a change in Windows 2003 SP1.

The symptom is error messages that look like the following in your event log:

Exception Message: TF30063: You are not authorized to access https://teamsystem.contoso.co.uk:8081/. (type TeamFoundationServerUnauthorizedException)

Read the following KB article to understand the issue and learn how to correct it: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/926642

Brian

Published Tuesday, August 19, 2008 6:57 AM by bharry
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# re: TFS & FQDN problems

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 9:44 AM by Kriss

Brian,

I was having this issue on my TFS 2008 and TFS 2008 SP1 installs... however it did/does not happen in TFS 2005 (I just checked my TFS 2005 server that doesn't have the registry entries and it is working fine).  Is there something about the way TFS 2008 uses the FQDN vs TFS 2005 that causes the issue as well?

# re: TFS & FQDN problems

Tuesday, August 19, 2008 2:31 PM by bharry

Some refinement.  Sorry, this is what happens with breaking news...

It turns out that it is a change in .NET 3.5 SP1 that causes the issue.  I don't have 100% iron clad confirmation of this but a pretty high level of confidence.

Brian

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