You may encounter TF53010 if your TFS 2008 is running on Windows 2008

Issue: ===== Your TFS 2008 is running on Windows 2008 and you noticed this error from w3wp.exe in EventLog:   TF53010: The following error has occurred in a Team Foundation component or extension: Date (UTC): 10/28/2008 12:19:30 AM Machine: %MachineName% Application Domain: /LM/W3SVC/99096959/ROOT/Services-1-128487152825933232 Assembly: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Common, Version=9.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a; v2.0.50727 Process Details: Process Name: w3wp Process Id: 3528 Thread Id: 2896 Account name: %AccountName% Exception: COMException Message: Retrieving the COM class factory for component with CLSID {080D0D78-F421-11D0-A36E-00C04FB950DC} failed due to the following error: 800703fa. Stack Trace: at System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.DirectoryEntryManager..ctor(DirectoryContext context) at System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.DomainController.FindOneInternal(DirectoryContext context, String domainName, String siteName, LocatorOptions flag) at System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.DomainController.FindOneWithCredentialValidation(DirectoryContext context, String siteName, LocatorOptions flag) at System.DirectoryServices.ActiveDirectory.DomainController.FindOne(DirectoryContext context, LocatorOptions flag) at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Server.DomainProperties..ctor(String domain) at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Server.DomainProperties.GetDomainProperties(String domain) at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Server.ADAccessor.ExtractIdentity(Boolean includeMembers, IdentitySeen identitySeen, ProcessIdentity processIdentity) at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Server.ADAccessor.ExtractIdentity(Boolean includeMembers) at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Server.IdentityStoreAccessor.ReadIdentityFromSource(String sid, Boolean includeMembers) at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Server.GroupSecurityService.ReadIdentityFromSource(SearchFactor factor, String factorValue) Root Cause: ========== This is due to a design change in Windows 2008. This wasn’t an issue in Win2k3, because the OS would let us hold onto HKCU after the user logged out.   Resolution: ========= Set “Load User Profile” to True for the IIS Application Pool “Microsoft Team Foundation Server Application Pool” .