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work item
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...
Be careful not to have any work items open in Visual Studio when updating their definitions with witimport because they will not be modified Suppose you have been checking your tasks and one is open in Visual Studio (I'm not referring to status here, I just mean open in a window). Then, you proceed to run witimport with the task definition. All tasks except the one open will be updated. You will have to close the task and run witimport again. Technorati tags: Team System, witimport, work item...