Here’s how we migrated our TFS 2008 to TFS 2010. This is not an in-place migration. What is generally recommended as upgrade path is to backup the TFS 2008 DBs, restore them in the new TFS data tier and then install TFS 2010. This will migrate all the projects at once. However, we wanted to keep the TFS 2008 environment running for a while, so this path did not do. We first set up a new machine (and a new domain, but that is a whole other story) with TFS 2010 and WSS 3.0. The database tier was on ......
Lately I’ve been doing some tests on migrating our TFS 2008 installation to TFS 2010, coupled with a machine and domain change. One particular topic that was tricky is user accounts. We installed first a new machine with TFS 2010 and then migrated the projects in the old server. The work items were migrated with the projects. Great, but if I try to edit one of the old work items I cannot save it anymore because some fields contain old user names (ex. OLDDOMAIN\user) which are not known in the new ......
I am just reposting this thread from a MSDN forum since it seems to be unavailable. It was very useful when I was having trouble with my folder mappings after migrating to TFS 2010. Question: I opened VS2008 and connected it to the upgraded 2010 TFS server. Upon clicking any of our Team Projects in source control explorer I get "Team Foundation Error - The workspace MYWORKSPACE;DOMAIN\MYUsername already exists on computer MYPCNAME." Answer: The same local paths on your machine are mapped to 2 different ......
Once you have imported a list of work items in excel from a team project in TFS, the excel file always proposes work items from the same team project. It does not seem possible to obtain the "connect to TFS" popup window again, where you choose the team project. This is because the connection is stored as a custom property in the excel file. The answer is to delete all custom properties from the file. Go to the main menu and then: Prepare / Properties / Document Properties / Advanced Properties / ......
Just to clarify the different tools that you can use to update/recreate the Team Foundation Server warehouse (relational database and OLAP cube). Warehouse Web Service You can browse and invoke it here (always locally from TFS): http://localhost:8080/Wareh... The Run operation will launch processing of the warehouse (you can check the status of the warehouse with the GetWarehouseStatus operation: it goes from ProcessingAdapters, ProcessingOlap and finally Idle). Processing ......
One of my main tasks now that I'm back at work is to migrate our TFS from 2005 to 2008. Our main concern is with process templates. We went to quite a lot of trouble to create our own process template and we do not want to lose that work. I posted a question on MSDN forums about customized process templates migration without much success. So, I decided to dive in on our test environment and see what happens. Test procedure: Prepare a test machine with Windows Server 2003, TFS2005, VisualStudio 2008 ......
I've been in IT now for about 5 years (2 years studying, 3 working). This is a very masculine field and, though I have often talked about it with colleagues (both male and female), the truth is that I have never been the object of any ironic remarks or felt I was being discriminated in any way, except for this week! In the space of 3 days, two fun/ironic remarks on women and IT. No malice intended, I think, but still ... I didn't find them that funny (especially the first one). Remark #1 (From a ......
It turns out that the TFS Warehouse cube does not store code coverage data down to the class or method level. You can retrieve the data at the assembly level only (from the Assembly dimension).
I searched for information on this everywhere without much success. In the end I found someone mentioning this here.
As I was trying to import a work item definition into a team project (using the Process Template Editor from gotdotnet) I received the following error message: TF26204: The account you entered is not recognized. Contact your Team Foundation Server administrator to add your account.. But I had not done any security changes (adding account or groups or permissions). What was it taking about? Then I understood: I had added a field that contained backslashes as values and TFS interpreted it as user account! ......
For the last few months I have been helping a client adopt Team System - Team Foundation Server. Since these tools are quite new, I will try to keep a log of what I have done. Builds: From MSBuild to TFSBuild The starting situation is an MSBuild script customized for a given team's needs. The default target can execute the following procedure: Delete network share Backup latest build Clean Get latest from source control Increase version and add label in source control if building in Release mode ......