TFS 2015 build drop folder explorer link not opening

Another amazing write up from Deepak Kumar Mishra, Emea Support Engineer, providing his experience while working on one of the issues with his customer, he has found that in Team Foundation Server(TFS) 2015 where we do not have the download link available in new build management system for the drops folder and while clicking on Explore; he got the following message as shown below.

  TFS 2015 Explore Link to open drop folder (explore button does not work as expected and shows the following message)

 

Cause and Solution

This has been confirmed as a bug in TFS 2015 and will be fixed in TFS 2015 Update 2.

Written by: Deepak Kumar Mishra, Emea Support Engineer

Reviewed by: Build product team and Nitish Nagpal, Support Escalation Engineer