TFS2008: Tips and tricks to fix potential errors after installation
Hi all,
After having some problems recently to install a TFS platform, I decided to post some tips and tricks about it.
Even if your favorite search engine (just in case I precise Bing www.bing.com ) is your best friend to troubleshoot errors with a copy/paste of the error number or/and error descriptions, you can have multiple causes for the same error. You will find mine below and even if it does not fix your problem, it’s a kind of checklist.
- TFS31001: Team Foundation cannot retrieve the list of team projects
- This error is most of time linked to security permissions
- If you try to access to https://<yourreportserver/reports/pages/folder.aspx and you do not see folder content with your admin account
- If you try to access to the TFS webservice /services/v1.0/ServerStatus.asmx">https://<yourapptiersserv>/services/v1.0/ServerStatus.asmx and you get a 403 error. With Fiddler, you determine the authentication process is ok and you just do not have permissions
- Potential solution: Run your Visual Studio/Team Explorer as an administrator
- TFS31002: Unable to Connect to this Team Foundation Server
- This error is also linked to security permissions
- Check your server name syntax, check in IIS your application pools are started as well as your TFS windows services
- On my side the problem was linked to the Workgroup edition, you have to declare your users/groups as licensed users.
- TFS30224: Failed to retrieve projects from the report server
- Check if your reportserver is up
- Check if the Reporting Services service is started
- One solution is to reinstall the SP1 of TFS2008 after the installation of Team Explorer.
Vincent
Comments
Anonymous
January 11, 2010
>TFS30224: Failed to retrieve projects from the >report server >One solution is to reinstall the SP1 of TFS2008 >after the installation of Team Explorer. Second solution is to reinstall SP1 of Visual Studio 2008, which has helped me much.Anonymous
August 03, 2010
One thing to recognize is the fact that you cannot connect to TFS 2010 via VSTS 2008 unless you have first created a Team Project with VSTS 2010 (not 2008, even with the TFS 2010 forward compatibility update).