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Upgrading Release Management 2013 to 2015 in-place.
Upgrading Release Management is a fairly simple process, and the upgrade from 2013 to 2015 follows...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 10/01/2015
Access Denied while trying to Start/Stop a service using Release Management Deployment Agents.
We have seen a few cases where the Releases involving starting/stopping services were failing with...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 09/30/2015
Migration Update from Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2013 to TFS 2015 (With Reporting and SharePoint)
This is a walkthrough of TFS 2013 upgrade to TFS 2015 on a new hardware. During this upgrade our TFS...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 09/30/2015
Enabling Code coverage from build definition in TFS
This is a quick walkthrough of how to enable Code coverage from a build definition in TFS....
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 09/30/2015
Gated build using release template gives access denied exception while processing tokens
We recently had a case where the customer was using a gated build which was triggering a release....
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 09/25/2015
In-Place upgrade to Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2015 from TFS 2013
This upgrade document gives detailed step by step procedure for the In-Place upgrade from TFS 2013...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 09/17/2015
TFS build fails to trigger coded UI tests.
We have come across an issue where TFS build fails to trigger coded UI tests, based on how the Test...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 09/17/2015
Configuring the “Epics” for upgraded team projects in Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2015
Epics were introduced in TFS 2015 to support Scaled Agile Framework(SAFe). In TFS 2015, if you...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 09/16/2015
Build and Publish a ClickOnce App using Team Build/VSO.
<Update: We have added another blog Building ClickOnce apps using build vNext>I needed to use...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 09/15/2015
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)–Pre-upgrade tool of TFS 2015
With Release of Team Foundation Server 2015, we have released the pre-upgrade tool to cut down on...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 09/11/2015
Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2015 – SP integration.
This blog talks about TFS integration with both local [Scenario 1] and remote SharePoint [Scenario...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 09/10/2015
Prepare for Team Foundation Server (TFS) 2015 Upgrade
This article brings together a checklist to be considered, if you are planning to upgrade your...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 09/10/2015
Salvaging virtual machines created in SCVMM, when deleting the SCVMM template based lab environment in TFS.
We had a customer who had used imported SCVMM template within Lab Management to create new...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 09/01/2015
Installing Visual Studio 2013 Update 5 on a TFS Application Tier can break the web access if TFS 2013 update 5 is not installed.
Having client software on a dedicated application tier is not advisable, and its proven to cause...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 09/01/2015
Comments and Ratings are back!
Hi! We realized that the comments and ratings had been disabled on our blog. We have enabled it...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 08/17/2015
Steps to check the code coverage of a web application via command line
We were working with a customer who wanted to do a code coverage analysis of his web application...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 08/13/2015
Test agent configuration tool is crashing during the configuration
Background: We were configuring test controller and test agent on same machine for the automated...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 08/12/2015
Team Foundation Server 2015 RTM–Installation Steps
Earlier this month, we released the RTM version of the latest member of our TFS family: TFS 2015. To...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 08/12/2015
404 Error on TFS web access pages when OPTIONS verb is set to deny in IIS.
We had an interesting case in TFS2013: The 404 errors when accessing TFS web access. Most of the...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 08/07/2015
Readiness checkup fails with VS402623: The Database TfsWarehouse is not configured properly and cannot be automatically repaired on TFS 2015 RTM
<Added edits> We’ve identified an issue while upgrading from previous versions of TFS to...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 08/07/2015
MTM Client crashes when opening TFS 2010/2012 Test Plan properties.
We have identified an issue with the WPF date picker control, which causes the MTM client to crash,...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 07/24/2015
TFS Build fails with the Team Foundation Background Job Agent service stop error immediately after you queue a build upon using Revert Snapshot in Lab template.
Recently, we came across a very interesting customer scenario where the build was failing...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 07/13/2015
Visual Studio Update 5RC– Various errors on the TF Web Access.
Recently we have released Update 5RC for Visual Studio. And installing this update on TFS server...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 06/16/2015
Create/Attach a collection on the TFS 2012 failing with the error “Object reference not set to an instance of an object"
There have been a few instances when a TFS process fails with the generic error “Object reference...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 05/26/2015
Team Collection attach/detach would not finish.
Issue: You may encounter an issue while performing detach or attach operation of Team Project...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 05/25/2015
Configure SharePoint with Kerberos and SSL for use with Team Foundation Server (TFS)
This article gives the step by step instructions to configure SharePoint with Kerberos and SSL for...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 05/21/2015
“The new field name, Work Item Type, is already in use” Error while trying to publish from MS Project client.
You may see the below error while trying to publish from MS Project Client, in an environment where...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 05/21/2015
TFS Optimize database Jobs and their nuances.
Applies to TFS 2017 RTM and Older versions of TFS. Any job in TFS is a good to run one, which is...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 05/21/2015
VMWare – TFS – Performance Tuning
Suppose your application Tiers and or Data tiers are in VMWare Virtual machines, please try the...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 05/21/2015
Application Tier only wizard errors out when HTTPS & SSL is not chosen again.
When you Un-configure and reconfigure TFS and choose to use the new configuration without SSL or...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 05/21/2015
Write-up on 4 GB String store limit in SSAS TFS Cubes
What is a string store? In an Analysis Services multidimensional database, strings are stored...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 05/21/2015
TFS Pre Upgrade preparation best practices.
Most of the time when we want to upgrade TFS from one version to another, we only worry about the...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 05/21/2015
After you restore backups to a TFS Instance, what else needs to be done?
It’s quite possible many may have not had a situation to restore backups of TFS databases taken few...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 05/21/2015
Migrating a TFVC team project to a Git team project along with changeset history in TFS.
Want to migrate a TFVC Team Project to GIT, along with history? It's simple! Follow the blog to get...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 05/19/2015
How to create a new Tool in Release management?
We have seen customers asking us on how to customize the tools or create new tools in Release...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 05/15/2015
Error while configuring the test controller - "Failed to remove this test controller from TFS Team Project Collection"
Recently one of our customer was getting an error "Failed to remove this test controller from...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 05/15/2015
Reference missing errors when building coded UI projects with automation on VS 2013 for TFS 2012.
We had an interesting scenario where a customer was using automation with the coded UI projects they...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 05/14/2015
TFS 2010 RTM: Test case order doesn’t update in MTM 2012 and 2013 clients
Issue Test case order doesn’t update in MTM 2012 and 2013 clients, while connected to TFS 2010 RTM....
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 05/13/2015
Open Webinar!!
What - Open Webinar is a series of online sessions on various developer technologies. These...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 04/29/2015
Limiting the number of work items being displayed on the Task board
For performance reasons, the task board is by default limited to 500 work items. This helps in...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 04/29/2015
Add a custom work item field and fetch it in an excel report
This blog post will help you to add a custom field to a work item, and fetch it in an excel...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 04/02/2015
Migrating Test cases in TFS 2013
When you open your test cases in Excel the Actions column appear in a format other than rich text...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 03/27/2015
Release Management – Exception with DACPAC deploy tool
Issue Exception stack when trying to deploy a dacpac package using an agent based release template,...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 03/26/2015
Release Management – Exception when releasing large file with agent based template
Release Management, TFS Issue System.OutOfMemoryException when a release has a file of large size,...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 03/26/2015
Release Management - vNext behavior on deployment machines with unrestricted execution policy
Issue Exception stack when trying to release a vNext template onto a machine in a domain with...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 03/10/2015
System.IO.FileNotFoundException: Could not load file or assembly 'System.Management.Automation’ Error during vNext deployment
Issue Unable to deploy to a machine using vNext Release management template to a standard machine....
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 03/09/2015
Permission issues on collections exported from VSO to On-Prem during the May 2014 export window.
We have seen some permission issues on collections exported from Visual Studio Online during our...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 03/03/2015
Non site collection admins unable to publish from MS project
We had a strange issue recently with TFS integrated with project server. Users who were not site...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 01/06/2015
Team Foundation Proxy: Use the same proxy server for multiple collections.
This blogs throws light on how to use the same Team Foundation Server Proxy for multiple...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 12/29/2014
TFS 2013: Upgrade Fails with “TF400704: ImportPlan is an invalid servicing step type for step performer TestManagement during ToDev12M65FinalConfiguration”
We have been getting some collection upgrade failures lately with the error “TF400704:...
Author: TfsSetup - Moderator Date: 12/26/2014