TFS & Visual Studio ALM – by Neno Loje

(formerly Team System, VSTS)

Entries from February 27th, 2011

Changing the state of multiple work items (command line)

February 27th, 2011 · No Comments · TFS Work Item Tracking, Tools and Utilities

Using the Team Foundation Power Tools (TFPT) you can… 1. Query work items using the command line: tfpt query /format:id /wiql:”SELECT [System.Id] FROM WorkItems WHERE [System.TeamProject] = ‘MyProject‘  AND  [System.WorkItemType] = ‘Bug‘  AND  [System.State] = ‘Active‘  AND  [System.Reason] = ‘New‘” /collection:http://servername:8080/tfs 2. And by adding the pipe command you can change the work items returned […]

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Force TFS to sync with Active Directory

February 17th, 2011 · 5 Comments · TFS 2010, TFS Administration, Tools and Utilities, Troubleshooting TFS

Changes you make to local or Active Directory groups do not get reflected in TFS immediately. Instead, TFS will synchronize those groups regularly (by default every hour). Known workarounds: You can re-add the security group in TFS, this will trigger a identity synchronization.  In TFS 2005/2008: you could restart IIS or the TFS App Pool […]

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Solved: Team Web Access link on Project Portal does not work

February 3rd, 2011 · 1 Comment · TFS Installation and Configuration, TFS Project Portal and Team Communication

If you configured a public FQDN for your TFS and the "Team Web Access" link on the project portal still points to the non-FQDN URL… … all you need to do is: using the Team Foundation Admin Console, in the "Extensions for SharePoint Products" node, change the TFS URL (= Integration Target) to use your […]

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Documentation: Customizing Work Item Types

February 2nd, 2011 · No Comments · TFS Process Customization, Work Item Customization

Customizing Work Item Types Defining Work Item Fields Defining and Customizing Work Item Workflow Designing and Customizing a Work Item Form Work Item Type Schema Reference Index to XML Element Definitions for Types of Work Items All WITD XML Elements Reference All FIELD XML Elements Reference All WORKFLOW XML Elements Reference All FORM XML Elements […]

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Change notification delay setting in TFS 2010

February 1st, 2011 · 2 Comments · Team Foundation Server, TFS 2010, TFS Administration, Tools and Utilities

As you probably noticed or know already, TFS 2010 by default delays all notifications (aka project alerts) by 2 minutes (as explained here). You can change the default by setting the following key in the TFS registry (not the Windows Registry on the TFS server) to the desired number of seconds (0 = no delay, […]

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