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Note

TFS 2017 and later versions no longer support native integration with Microsoft Project Server. If you upgrade to TFS 2017 or want to use a third party option, see Synchronize TFS with Project Server.

To help troubleshoot the integration of Visual Studio Team Foundation Server (TFS) and Microsoft Project Server, you can display a list of recent synchronization errors. You can display the most recent errors that were logged for a project collection by using the /GetSyncMessages option of the TFSAdmin ProjectServer command-line tool.

Note

For information about the synchronization process, see Overview of integration features.

To run the TfsAdmin command-line tool, open a Command Prompt window where either Visual Studio or Team Explorer is installed and enter:

cd %programfiles(x86)%\Microsoft Visual Studio 12.0\Common7\IDE

On a 32-bit edition of Windows, replace %programfiles(x86)% with %programfiles%..

Requirements

To use this command, your Administer Project Server integration permission must be set to Allow for the project collection. Also, the service account for Team Foundation Server must be granted the necessary permissions to interact with the instance of Project Web Access or Project Web App (PWA) that will participate in data synchronization. For more information, see Assign permissions.

Syntax

TfsAdmin ProjectServer /GetSyncMessages /collection:tpcUrl

Parameters

Parameter Description
/collection: tpcUrl Specifies the uniform resource locator (URL) of a project collection. You specify the URI in the following format:

http://ServerName:Port/VirtualDirectoryName/CollectionName

If you do not specify a virtual directory, you specify the URI in the following format:

http://ServerName:Port/CollectionName
/? or help Displays information about the command.

Return value

The /GetSyncMessages option displays a tab-delimited set of messages with their column headers. The following information appears for each message:

  • Date: Date when the message was logged.

  • Team Project Collection Name\Team Project Name: Names of the project collection and the project.

  • Project Name: Name of the enterprise project plan.

  • Message: Content of the message.

    These messages are extracted from the synchronization job log. The /GetSyncMessages option truncates the messages that are much longer than average. When this truncation occurs, the following message appears:

    There are additional errors that have been truncated from the log. These errors can be viewed in the event log for the application-tier server(s).

    You can view the complete message by opening the event log for the corresponding application-tier server.

Example

The following example retrieves the error messages that have been logged for DefaultCollection, which is defined on the MyTFSServer application-tier server.

TfsAdmin ProjectServer /GetSyncMessages /collection:http://MyTFSServer:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection

Tip

You can use standard command-line syntax to send the output to a file. For example, you can specify >c:\output.txt.

Overview of integration features
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