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).