Developer Support Team Foundation Server

Tips, tricks, thoughts and experiences from the Microsoft Team Foundation Server global support team.

Message in Test section of VSTS Team Project: "You can’t create test cases without a test plan. Click here to create a test plan."

Had an interesting case this week where a customer was seeing this window below inside Visual Studio...

Author: Trevor Hancock Date: 08/11/2017

Troubleshooting connections from Eclipse + Team Explorer Everywhere to Visual Studio Team Services

Today's post (his first!) comes from my Customer Service & Support colleague Manuel Galindo....

Author: Trevor Hancock Date: 08/03/2017

Limit access to just Visual Studio Team Services using Azure Active Directory Premium

By leveraging Conditional Access Policies of Azure Active Directory (AAD) Premium it's possible to...

Author: Trevor Hancock Date: 07/27/2017

How To Checkin Files To 2 TFVC Projects At The Same Time

3/21/2017 Jeff here from the VSTS support team. Someone asked how to map 2 VSTS TFVC Projects so we...

Author: Jeff Lambert Date: 03/21/2017

Set Service Hooks permissions on existing projects” is failing with “ExtensionNotFound”

I worked with a customer who complained that after an upgrade from TFS 2013 update 2 to TFS 2017 he...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 01/26/2017

GIT clone SSH CI build issue in TFS 2015.3

Issue: In TFS 2015.3, if you have setup a CI build defection for a GIT repository and if you clone...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 01/06/2017

Test Management Warehouse Adapter – General issues and their resolutions

TFS warehouse is a critical component of On-Prem TFS reporting stack as it enables reporting based...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 12/28/2016

VSTS Test runs reporting inconsistent count of tests run with each build

Issue: While executing unit tests as a part of CI, we see issues with the count in build results...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 12/21/2016

TFS Reporting database backup fails with TFS Backup tool

Issue Details: Reportserver and Reportservertempdb backup with TFS backup tool fails with the...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 12/12/2016

Fatal problem when pushing huge repository to TFS GIT

Deepak Kumar Mishra, Support Engineer, EMEA TFS Team, brings this knowledge experience while working...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 12/12/2016

V-next builds with a git tag can fail as it does not fetch new tags(annotated)

Deepak Kumar Mishra, Support Engineer, EMEA TFS Team, brings this knowledge experience while working...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 11/13/2016

Retrieving corrupted Git Repository in TFS 2015

Deepak Kumar Mishra, Support Engineer, EMEA TFS Team, brings this knowledge experience while working...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 11/13/2016

"Cannot create build definition as no hosted build controller could be found." message in Azure Portal

We took one more step recently as we prepare to turn off the HOSTED XAML agent* in VSTS: any VSTS...

Author: Trevor Hancock Date: 09/13/2016

Error connecting VS\Office apps to AAD-backed VSTS: "An error occurred. Contact your administrator for more information" ... "Relying party: Microsoft Office 365 Identity Platform"

If you're seeing an error like this one above when connecting to Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS)...

Author: Trevor Hancock Date: 09/13/2016

tfignore usage in Team Foundation Server

Deepak Kumar Mishra, Support Engineer, EMEA TFS Team wants to share his experience on the usage of...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 01/29/2016

Running parallel builds in msbuild using Team Foundation Server 2015 V-next Builds

Deepak Kumar Mishra, Support Engineer, EMEA TFS Team, brings this knowledge experience while working...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 01/29/2016

Team Foundation Server 2015 Update1 issue with default agent pool in V-next builds

Deepak Kumar Mishra, Support Engineer, EMEA TFS team brings this known issue in TFS 2015 Update 1...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 01/29/2016

Team Foundation Server 2015 V-next build hangs and does not start

Deepak Kumar Mishra, Support Engineer, EMEA TFS Team, brings this knowledge experience while working...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 01/29/2016

Issues in opening customized work item from team system web access in team foundation server

There was another long running interesting issue of one of my customers which I was able to fix...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 01/05/2016

How to troubleshoot slow performance issue in team foundation server using SQL Profiler

Nitish Nagpal, Support Escalation Engineer, brings another amazing write up while troubleshooting...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 01/04/2016

Client add-in Capture Trace

Copy the following contents to a config file and name it as Excel.Exe.Config (for TFS Excel Add-In)...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 01/04/2016

How to capture traffic (when applicable) from TFS Add-in, PSI extension, and TFSADMIN.EXE

Nitish Nagpal, Support Escalation Engineer, brings another amazing write up on capturing traffic...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 01/04/2016

Mapping/Unmapping Command for Team Foundation Server and Project Server Integration

From a Developer command prompt with the right credentials: tfsadminprojectServer /RegisterPwa...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 01/04/2016

Creating reports against the relational database is now officially supported in Team Foundation Server

Came to know about this while working for one of my customers. Please note that Creating reports...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 01/04/2016

General Guidelines of troubleshooting performance issues in Team Foundation Server

I think this is worth sharing for those of you who are handling performance issues. Some things to...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 01/04/2016

"No identities found" adding users from Azure Active Directory to Azure DevOps

[Updated Feb 28, 2019] Scenario Your Azure DevOps org is backed by Azure Active Directory (AAD) You...

Author: Trevor Hancock Date: 12/23/2015

Transactional Log full Error while upgrading

While working on one of the upgrade cases, Me and Premal recently came across a very strange...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 12/17/2015

Recovery Model error while upgrading TF400744: An error occurred while executing the following script: RestoreOriginalRecoveryModel.sql

Another amazing write up by Premal, support engineer in his own words, Read on!! I was working on...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 12/17/2015

Bad Request 400 error while changing group memberships

Premal brings us this amazing write up while working with one of his customers, read on!! One of my...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 12/17/2015

Another amazing write up from Deepak Kumar Mishra, Emea Support Engineer, providing his experience...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 12/04/2015

TFS 2015 Bug[Churn report data in excel is not displaying the Work Item relationship]

Deepak Kumar Mishra, Support Engineer, EMEA TFS team brings this known issue in TFS 2015 RTM with...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 12/03/2015

Access to the path is denied" when using Publish Artifact build step when Contents has additional items in new TFS 2015 vNext build

One of my customers reported the following bug in the build and has been accepted by product team...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 12/03/2015

Git Clone Fails with inflate: data stream error (incorrect header check)

Deepak Kumar Mishra, Support Engineer, EMEA TFS Team, brings this knowledge experience while working...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 05/29/2015

Can't delete Azure Active Directory (AAD) with Visual Studio Team Services (VSTS) Enterprise Applications entries

[Updated August 3, 2018] SYMPTOM: You have an Azure Active Directory (AAD) you'd like to delete....

Author: Trevor Hancock Date: 05/27/2015

quick search of work items in TFS does not render any results

Deepak Kumar Mishra, Support Engineer, EMEA TFS Team, brings this knowledge experience while working...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 05/21/2015

version control data corruption in tfs which is actually tfs server cache corruption

Deepak Kumar Mishra, Support Engineer, EMEA TFS Team, brings this knowledge experience while working...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 05/21/2015

GIT Clone operation for Visual Studio Online(VSO) and Team Foundation Server(TFS) On Premise

Deepak Kumar Mishra, Support Engineer, brings to us the walkthrough below explaining the basic steps...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 02/09/2015

Can't connect to Visual Studio Online from any version of in VS: "The underlying connection was closed: An unexpected error occurred on a send."

Interesting one today. PROBLEMCustomer reported not being able to connect to VSO from any VS...

Author: Trevor Hancock Date: 07/24/2014

Issues in saving the build definition post upgrade to Team Foundation Server(TFS) 2012

Problem Description: You may get error "object reference not to set to an instance of an object"...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 05/18/2014

Issues with build failure in Team Foundation Server 2012

Deepak Mittal, Support Escalation Engineer, brings his experience on issues with TFS 2012 Build...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 05/18/2014

Build completion alerts does not show static analysis warnings in TFS 2012

Problem description: While working on an issue recently, we found that build completion alerts does...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 05/18/2014

How to resolve file deployment issues to agents from Release Management

Deepak Mittal, Support Escalation Engineer, brings to us another article on what to do if you face...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 05/18/2014

Issues with user logging in to TFS 2013 Server after installation and restart on Windows 2012 R2

Deepak Mittal, Support Escalation Engineer, brings to us the unique issue that he faced after the...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 05/18/2014

Unable to configure/verify a Team Foundation Server Connection in Release Management Client

Following blog has been written by Deepak Mittal, Support Escalation Engineer, EMEA TFS Team Problem...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 05/18/2014

Configuration Issues with Release Management 2013(up to update 2) on Turkey regional settings based machines

Deepak Mittal, Support Escalation Engineer, brings to us following blog on configuration issues on...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 05/18/2014

tfsconfig cloudimport fails importing data exported from Visual Studio Online

The CloudImport command fails because of a timeout. Users may see one of these errors: TF400711:...

Author: Trevor Hancock Date: 05/08/2014

Timeouts uploading bits to drop folder from on-prem build controller connected to VSO

Had an interesting case recently. Customer was using an on-prem build controller connected to VSO....

Author: Trevor Hancock Date: 04/25/2014

How to find Team Foundation Server(TFS) 2012 GUID Info

Deepak Kumar Mishra, Team Foundation Server, EMEA Engineer brings us his experience on one of the...

Author: Nitish Nagpal Date: 04/07/2014

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