TFS & Visual Studio ALM – by Neno Loje

(formerly Team System, VSTS)

Entries Tagged as 'TFS Project Portal and Team Communication'

How can I temporarily suspend TFS event notification mails?

March 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · TFS Administration, TFS Project Portal and Team Communication, Work Item Customization

There is no built-in command to achieve this. Workaround You can turn off all e-mail alerts in the TFS Admin Console by unchecking the "Enable Email Alerts" checkbox. Alternatively you could also remove disable SMTP settings via command line: %ProgramFiles%\TFSConfig ConfigureMail  /Enabled:False|True (Special thanks to Jim Lamb, Microsoft, for making me aware of the command […]

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Who created that TFS event subscription?

March 23rd, 2011 · No Comments · TFS Project Portal and Team Communication, Troubleshooting TFS

In TFS you can use Project Alerts or Alerts Explorer to edit your subscriptions. You will not see subscriptions created by others. To see all subscriptions you could have a look at the tbl_EventSubscription table in the collection database (Caution: Do not make any changes to the TFS DBs!). To find out which user identity […]

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Trouble installing SharePoint 2010 Prerequisites because it cannot configure IIS on Windows Server 2008 R2?

March 22nd, 2011 · No Comments · TFS Project Portal and Team Communication, Troubleshooting TFS

Problem The prerequisites installation fails with errors configuring IIS. Resolution Make sure to install all available Windows Updates. Try to manually install the required IIS features by executing the following command: start /w pkgmgr /iu:IIS-WebServerRole;IIS-WebServer;IIS-CommonHttpFeatures; IIS-StaticContent;IIS-DefaultDocument;IIS-DirectoryBrowsing;IIS-HttpErrors; IIS-ApplicationDevelopment;IIS-ASPNET;IIS-NetFxExtensibility; IIS-ISAPIExtensions;IIS-ISAPIFilter;IIS-HealthAndDiagnostics; IIS-HttpLogging;IIS-LoggingLibraries;IIS-RequestMonitor;IIS-HttpTracing;IIS-CustomLogging;IIS-ManagementScriptingTools; IIS-Security;IIS-BasicAuthentication;IIS-WindowsAuthentication;IIS-DigestAuthentication; IIS-RequestFiltering;IIS-Performance;IIS-HttpCompressionStatic;IIS-HttpCompressionDynamic; IIS-WebServerManagementTools;IIS-ManagementConsole;IIS-IIS6ManagementCompatibility; IIS-Metabase;IIS-WMICompatibility;WAS-WindowsActivationService;WAS-ProcessModel; WAS-NetFxEnvironment;WAS-ConfigurationAPI;WCF-HTTP-Activation; WCF-NonHTTP-Activation For more details visit this page: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ee554869.aspx

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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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How to add a project portal and reports to a Team Project?

August 16th, 2010 · 1 Comment · TFS Administration, TFS Project Portal and Team Communication, TFS Reporting

You created the team project without a project portal and/or without reports? Or maybe you upgraded your TFS to 2010 and did not migrate the reports/portals as well and want to create new, fresh ones? The TFS 2010 Power Tools are your friend: tfpt addprojectportal – Create a project portal for an existing Team Project […]

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How to set the Default Team Project for a SharePoint site

April 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · TFS 2010, TFS Project Portal and Team Communication

You have probably created a SharePoint site after creating the Team Project and a receiving the error message: "This site doesn’t have a default Team Project." Solution You have to configure the project portal using Visual Studio Team Explorer 2010 using Team Project Settings » Portal Settings… More Information MSDN Library: Add a Team Project […]

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TF255357: The following query was not found: Product Planning

April 8th, 2010 · No Comments · Team Foundation Server, TFS Project Portal and Team Communication

If you add a project portal to your team project (i.e. by running tfpt addprojectportal) you might receive the error message TF255357: The following query was not found: Product Planning. Download the process template, open it, and verify that the query exists. Reason: The site template expects certain work item queries to exist (e.g. product […]

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Using TFS to develop custom SharePoint applications (revised)

March 11th, 2009 · No Comments · Team Foundation Server, TFS 2008, TFS Project Portal and Team Communication, Training and Learning

The first article is created during a real world customer engagement and answers dozens of frequently asked questions and how-tos in a real world context vs. theoretical discussions. The 2nd package addresses very common questions around setting up and using TFS features for a MOSS development project. VSTS Rangers – SharePoint Server Custom Application Development: […]

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Setup up an e-mail notification on other user’s check-ins

March 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Team Foundation Server, TFS Clients, TFS Project Portal and Team Communication, TFS Tips and Tricks, VSTS

Open Alerts Editor (required TFS Power Tools to be installed locally). Create new alert. Choose “Check-In of a specific file happens”:    Enter a name for the alert subscription, the destination e-mail address, desired team project name ($/Teamproject), if applicable, as well as your account name (to be excluded). The “Filter Expression” (2nd tab) looks […]

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Using TFS to develop custom SharePoint applications

October 1st, 2008 · No Comments · Project Management with TFS, Team Foundation Server, TFS 2008, TFS Project Portal and Team Communication, Training and Learning, VSTS

Using Team Foundation Server to Develop Custom SharePoint Products and Technologies Applications Summary: Use Microsoft Visual Studio 2008 Team Foundation Server to support SharePoint application development, and provide an integrated development environment and single source code repository for process activities, integrated progress reporting, and team roles. (12 printed pages) Author: Microsoft Corporation, September 2008 Link: […]

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