TFS & Visual Studio ALM – by Neno Loje

(formerly Team System, VSTS)

Entries Tagged as 'Troubleshooting TFS'

Team Project creation fails with System.MissingFieldException

May 20th, 2015 · No Comments · TFS 2013, Troubleshooting TFS

The Problem You are trying to create a new Team Project in TFS and receive the following error: Module: EngineEvent Description: TF30162: Task “TestVariable” from Group “TestManagement” failedException Type: Microsoft.TeamFoundation.Client.PcwExceptionException Message: System.MissingFieldException: Field not found: ‘Microsoft.TeamFoundation.TestManagement.Common.WitCategoryRefName.SharedDataSet’.   at Microsoft.TeamFoundation.TestManagement.Client.TestManagementTeamProject.get_SharedParameterDataSetWorkItemTypeName()   The Solution Run the following on the TFS 2013 application tier (in command prompt as admin): […]

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SOLVED: TF221122: Error While Processing TFS OLAP Cube

March 6th, 2014 · No Comments · TFS Reporting, Troubleshooting TFS

The Problem After upgrading to TFS 2013, the TFS OLAP Cube fails processing with one of the following messages: Invalid column name ‘System_AssignedTo__Name’.; 42S22; Invalid column name ‘System_AssignedTo__SID’.; 42S22 Query execution failed for dataset ‘ds[Whatever]’ The Solution Found in Jeff Hunsaker’s blog post: In TFS Admin Console, look up the account under “Account for accessing […]

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SharePoint-based Dashboards on TFS Project Portal showing 404 File not found error after upgrading to new instance

October 24th, 2012 · No Comments · 15787, Troubleshooting TFS

The issue On the TFS Project Portal, you get a 404 error from SharePoint instead of the dashboard. Background Then that project were probably created with the Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 template, and that template is not available on the new SharePoint server. How to fix Download and install Visual Studio Scrum 1.0 In the […]

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Solved: Visual Studio Team Explorer 2010 crashes with MissingMethodException

April 3rd, 2012 · No Comments · 16237, Troubleshooting TFS

Re-applying Visual Studio 2010 Service Pack 1 solved the issue.

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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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Your Visual Studio 2010 is running slow?

March 8th, 2011 · No Comments · Issues and Hotfixes, Troubleshooting TFS

There’s a new "Visual Studio Troubleshooting" page available on MSDN: Information on how to troubleshoot your hardware/software configuration to gain optimum efficiency while using Visual Studio 2010. Link: Suggestions for Improving the Performance of Visual Studio

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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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How to manually install TFS Extensions for SharePoint

January 13th, 2011 · 1 Comment · TFS Administration, Troubleshooting TFS

Warning: In regular cases you should install the TFS Extensions for SharePoint as described here and do not follow the steps in this blog post. Error Message: The Microsoft.TeamFoundation.SharePoint.wsp did not get deployed to the SharePoint Products server.  This web service is deployed to SharePoint as part of this package. Solution: Solution 1 (preferred): Install […]

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How to add a source control folder to an existing team project

November 3rd, 2010 · 3 Comments · Team Foundation Server, Team Foundation Version Control, TFS 2010, TFS Administration, Tools and Utilities, Troubleshooting TFS

When double-clicking the Source Control node of a Team Project that has no source control folder you receive the following message: No Source Control Folder Cannot open $/Projectname. Source control has not been configured for this team project, you do not have permission to acces it, or the team project has been moved or deleted. […]

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