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...
Date: 08/11/2017
Today's post (his first!) comes from my Customer Service & Support colleague Manuel Galindo....
Date: 08/03/2017
By leveraging Conditional Access Policies of Azure Active Directory (AAD) Premium it's possible to...
Date: 07/27/2017
3/21/2017 Jeff here from the VSTS support team. Someone asked how to map 2 VSTS TFVC Projects so we...
Date: 03/21/2017
I worked with a customer who complained that after an upgrade from TFS 2013 update 2 to TFS 2017 he...
Date: 01/26/2017
Issue: In TFS 2015.3, if you have setup a CI build defection for a GIT repository and if you clone...
Date: 01/06/2017
TFS warehouse is a critical component of On-Prem TFS reporting stack as it enables reporting based...
Date: 12/28/2016
Issue: While executing unit tests as a part of CI, we see issues with the count in build results...
Date: 12/21/2016
Issue Details: Reportserver and Reportservertempdb backup with TFS backup tool fails with the...
Date: 12/12/2016
Deepak Kumar Mishra, Support Engineer, EMEA TFS Team, brings this knowledge experience while working...
Date: 12/12/2016
Deepak Kumar Mishra, Support Engineer, EMEA TFS Team, brings this knowledge experience while working...
Date: 11/13/2016
Deepak Kumar Mishra, Support Engineer, EMEA TFS Team, brings this knowledge experience while working...
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...
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)...
Date: 09/13/2016
Deepak Kumar Mishra, Support Engineer, EMEA TFS Team wants to share his experience on the usage of...
Date: 01/29/2016
Deepak Kumar Mishra, Support Engineer, EMEA TFS Team, brings this knowledge experience while working...
Date: 01/29/2016
Deepak Kumar Mishra, Support Engineer, EMEA TFS team brings this known issue in TFS 2015 Update 1...
Date: 01/29/2016
Deepak Kumar Mishra, Support Engineer, EMEA TFS Team, brings this knowledge experience while working...
Date: 01/29/2016
There was another long running interesting issue of one of my customers which I was able to fix...
Date: 01/05/2016
Nitish Nagpal, Support Escalation Engineer, brings another amazing write up while troubleshooting...
Date: 01/04/2016
Copy the following contents to a config file and name it as Excel.Exe.Config (for TFS Excel Add-In)...
Date: 01/04/2016
Nitish Nagpal, Support Escalation Engineer, brings another amazing write up on capturing traffic...
Date: 01/04/2016
From a Developer command prompt with the right credentials: tfsadminprojectServer /RegisterPwa...
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...
Date: 01/04/2016
I think this is worth sharing for those of you who are handling performance issues. Some things to...
Date: 01/04/2016
[Updated Feb 28, 2019] Scenario Your Azure DevOps org is backed by Azure Active Directory (AAD) You...
Date: 12/23/2015
While working on one of the upgrade cases, Me and Premal recently came across a very strange...
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...
Date: 12/17/2015
Premal brings us this amazing write up while working with one of his customers, read on!! One of my...
Date: 12/17/2015
Another amazing write up from Deepak Kumar Mishra, Emea Support Engineer, providing his experience...
Date: 12/04/2015
Deepak Kumar Mishra, Support Engineer, EMEA TFS team brings this known issue in TFS 2015 RTM with...
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...
Date: 12/03/2015
Deepak Kumar Mishra, Support Engineer, EMEA TFS Team, brings this knowledge experience while working...
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....
Date: 05/27/2015
Deepak Kumar Mishra, Support Engineer, EMEA TFS Team, brings this knowledge experience while working...
Date: 05/21/2015
Deepak Kumar Mishra, Support Engineer, EMEA TFS Team, brings this knowledge experience while working...
Date: 05/21/2015
Deepak Kumar Mishra, Support Engineer, brings to us the walkthrough below explaining the basic steps...
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...
Date: 07/24/2014
Problem Description: You may get error "object reference not to set to an instance of an object"...
Date: 05/18/2014
Deepak Mittal, Support Escalation Engineer, brings his experience on issues with TFS 2012 Build...
Date: 05/18/2014
Problem description: While working on an issue recently, we found that build completion alerts does...
Date: 05/18/2014
Deepak Mittal, Support Escalation Engineer, brings to us another article on what to do if you face...
Date: 05/18/2014
Deepak Mittal, Support Escalation Engineer, brings to us the unique issue that he faced after the...
Date: 05/18/2014
Following blog has been written by Deepak Mittal, Support Escalation Engineer, EMEA TFS Team Problem...
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...
Date: 05/18/2014
The CloudImport command fails because of a timeout. Users may see one of these errors: TF400711:...
Date: 05/08/2014
Had an interesting case recently. Customer was using an on-prem build controller connected to VSO....
Date: 04/25/2014
Deepak Kumar Mishra, Team Foundation Server, EMEA Engineer brings us his experience on one of the...
Date: 04/07/2014