Thanks to this MSDN Forums post I was able to change the link included in every TFS notification e-mail to point to TSWA instead of the project portal. Here’s the full story: When using project alerts to get notified about work item changes you get an email containing a link to the project portal: If […]
Entries from August 31st, 2007
Changing TFS email notifications to link to Team System Web Access
August 31st, 2007 · 6 Comments · Project Management with TFS, Team Foundation Version Control, Team System Web Access (TWA), TFS 2005, TFS 2008, TFS Administration, TFS Process Customization, TFS Project Portal and Team Communication, TFS Tips and Tricks, TFS Work Item Tracking
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Tool for creating links to pages on Team System Web Access
August 31st, 2007 · 3 Comments · Project Management with TFS, Team Foundation Server, Team Foundation Version Control, Team System Web Access (TWA), TFS Process Customization, TFS Tips and Tricks, TFS Work Item Tracking, Tools and Utilities
Would you like to send links to work items, team projects or source files on Team System Web Access? For work items … you can find the answer in the offical TSWA FAQ: Q: What’s the URL to use if I want to send the link of a specific work item? A: Work item links […]
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How to remove someone else’s workspace in TFS
August 30th, 2007 · 1 Comment · Team Foundation Server, Team Foundation Version Control, TFS 2005, TFS Administration, TFS Tips and Tricks
A customer asked: “During my vacation my collegue was working on my machine and mapped the solution file to D:\Projects. Now I returned and wanted to map the solution to that folder as well, which obviously doesn’t work since it is already mapped. How can I get rid of the workspace that my collegue has […]
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Hotfix for: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.VersionControl.Adapter: An error occurred while processing changeset
August 30th, 2007 · No Comments · Team Foundation Server, TFS 2005, TFS Administration, Troubleshooting TFS
If you have the following error occurring every periodically when your warehouse is updated… The description text is as follows: Event Type: ErrorEvent Source: TFS WarehouseEvent Category: NoneEvent ID: 3000Date: nn/nn/nnnnTime: 10:58:00User: N/AComputer: Computer nameDescription:TF53010: An unexpected condition has occurred in a Team Foundation component. The information contained here should be made available to your site administrative staff.Technical Information (for the administrative staff):Date […]
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Creating a separate work item form layout for Web Access
August 29th, 2007 · No Comments · Team Foundation Server, Team System Web Access (TWA), TFS 2005, TFS Administration, TFS Process Customization, TFS Tips and Tricks, TFS Work Item Tracking, Work Item Customization
Right now custom work item controls [1] are not supported by Team System Web Access [2]. Instead your custom control you will see this unpleasant message: “Unable to create workitem control ‘ControlName’”. While this is a sad thing for us users does that mean that we shouldn’t use Web Access? No, of course not… One […]
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Listing version control changes with check-in comments using TFS
August 27th, 2007 · 8 Comments · Team Explorer, Team Foundation Server, Team Foundation Version Control, Team System Web Access (TWA), TFS 2005, TFS Clients, TFS Tips and Tricks
You can easily query for changes on a team project or a specified version control folder underneath and display them in a list with the check-in comments. By using Team System Web Access (TSWA): Note: I’m showing this first because the dialog is very comfortable, e.g. you can filter by user or time range. In TSWA […]
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Enabling email functionality in Team System Web Access (TSWA)
August 27th, 2007 · No Comments · Team Foundation Server, Team System Web Access (TWA), TFS 2005, TFS Administration, TFS Clients, TFS Tips and Tricks
By default, the email functionality in Team System Web Access (TSWA) is disabled and users will receive the following message when trying to use it: “Sending email is not enabled. Please contact your administrator.” To enable you need to change TSWA’s web.config file, which can be found under %ProgramFiles%\Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Team System Web Access\Web. Change the setting “sendingEmailEnabled” […]
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Free Add-On: Team System Web Access (TSWA) Power Tool by Microsoft
August 27th, 2007 · No Comments · Downloads, Team Foundation Server, Team System Web Access (TWA), TFS 2005, TFS 2008, TFS Clients, Third-Party Solutions, Tools and Utilities
Microsoft now offers version 2.0 of the Team System Web Access (formerly known as TeamPlain Web Access from DevBiz, which was acquired by Microsoft ) free of charge as a Power Tool with official Microsoft Customer Service support! Download it from here. Get a detailed list of all improvements here. Make sure to read the […]
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Enable logging to troubleshooting Team System issues
August 24th, 2007 · No Comments · Team Foundation Build (TF Build), Team Foundation Server, TFS Administration, TFS Tips and Tricks, VS Test Tools
Here’s a list of how to enable logging for the various client and server components of VIsual Studio Team System: TFS Client (Visual Studio IDE and command line tools):devenv.exe.config (for Visual Studio IDE), tf.exe.config (for command line tools) as described in Ed Hintz on TFS Client Tracing. If you mainly want to measure performance the web […]
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