I was trying to uninstall TFS 217 update 3.1 going through the control panel ->uninstall a program . When I click on TFS 2017 update 3.1 I am getting only change option not getting uninstall option. How to uninstall ?
We do not uninstall TFS server from control panel--Programs and Features. Use the unconfigure instead, it's similar to the way we usually uninstall other software.
To "Unconfigure TFS", please go to the Team Foundation Administration Console on the Application Tier machine. Click on the server name and click on "Remove Feature"
By Removing the feature, we will be removing
The Application Tier configuration from the server (but we don't
remove the binaries)
Connection with Data tier (but the databases won’t be deleted)
TFS Website.
TFS Application Pools
TFS Services (The Visual Studio Team Foundation Server Job Agent)
You can do the same from command prompt, execute TfsConfig setup /uninstall:ApplicationTier command to unconfigure TFS Application Tier. (You can also use various switches to remove other features SharePointExtensions, TeamBuild and VersionControlP
roxy) from server machine.
Usually we'd like to refresh the TFS Application Tier setup to defaults in case there's an unintended change in services/IIS settings and we want to set it back to defaults. We give an option to Remove Application Tier/Features without having to uninstall the complete application.
Another usage is when you are using pre-upgrade for test, you could quickly remove Application Tier. Since everything have been migrated, if you don't need the TFS server any more, just simply uninstall the complete application and database.You could back up your database, once you want to use again. Just install a new application and restore your database.
Hope this helps.
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Requires admin privileges for setup
I found a question about the same problem as installshield 2012 , but my problem with installshield 2015 and Solutions in the answer are not compatible with installshield 2015
I hope you understand the repetition
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I'm trying to package application. I used install shield 2015 and I have created the setup file. When I try running the setup file it keeps throwing this error code
1925: it needs admin privileges to run the setup.
How do I configure the setup file to be run by any user? Should I make any changes in the registry during the creation of setup file in install shield? Is there anyway to work around this problem?
As suggested, first determine whether your setup or msi should be installed with admin rights. If it doesn't need admin rights:
Set "Require Administrative Privileges" to No for the Summary Information Stream setting under General Information.
Go to your release configuration under Releases. Select the setup.exe tab and select the Required Execution Level to Invoker.
I am trying setup Release Management with TFS 2013 using build template "ReleaseTfvcTemplate.12.xaml" but when I set up to carry out the release occurs the following error:
"ERROR: The account running the TFS build service (Domain\User) needs to be added to the system user in the Release Management Server."
The RM is installed on isolated server from the server that is configured Build Controller, however, the machines are within the same domain, and each server has its own user with administator permission to perform the services.
The build server user was added among users of services in RM, and the error continues to occur.
Anyone have any idea how to solve this problem?
Thanks.
One possible cause is that the Release Management client needs to be installed on the machine(s) running the build agent. This gem is hidden away on p26 of the current RM user guide. This won't be a problem for anyone with everything on one server but will need addressing where components are distributed.
Quick background. My client uses Visual Studio 2010 for their website. It was ported onto a new machine, and I had to do some extensive work to get all of the 3rd party controls and add-ons to work. They then requested source control, so using their MSDN license I pulled down and installed TFS 2012 on their machine. Everything installed correctly, and seemed to work until I went to add the existing VS2010 project to TFS2012, and I got an error that when traced back, basically told me that I would not be able to use TFS 2012 and VS2010 together. I weighed the choices, updating the project to VS2012, or uninstalling TFS 2012 and installing TFS2010, and decided the TFS route was the way to go, as I did not want to screw around with all the add-ons again. TFS2012 uninstalled fine, and TFS2010 installed fine.
When I went to start configuring TFS2010, I got an error ([ Application Tier ] TF255297: The Web site found has bindings that conflict with the bindings chosen for the Web site for Team Foundation Server. You must manually resolve the conflict between the bindings.) basically telling me the binding were not removed for the TFS2012 install. I looked in IIS and there is nothing in there using port 8080.
So my question is, how do I find out where the bindings are in use. I tried the netstat commands, and did not find anything using port 8080. I am kind of dead in the water here, so any help that is offered would be greatly appreciated.
I've an Installer with some custom actions & the designer fancy to install a windows service.
From times to times, when I made a mistake in my custom actions (or in the MSI configuration) the upgrade process may fail. Solution is to uninstall the Application and do a fresh installation.
But sometimes I'm ending in the situation, where I can't uninstall the Application because the "custom actions" for the service claims, that the service is not registered in the system. OK, maybe, no problem. I'm uninstalling the App. The problem: my app don't get uninstalled. It remains. I have to manually add the service to the registry again and restart the uninstall process.
Question: What do I have to configure/develop/program/etc. to tell the service (un)installer not to fail during uninstall when the service is already removed.
BTW: My custom actions do NOTHING during uninstallation. Only during installation/upgrade, I'm asking the user for some configuration and do some custom config stuff - only related to my app. Not related to the service.
EDIT: forgot to mention: VS 2008, default installer project, no fancy stuff, target machine is Windows XP
Yeah, that's one of the many reasons I say not to use VDPROJ and InstallUtil custom actions. You need to put a try catch block in your uninstall custom action and handle that scenario.
Hopefully you are testing on a VM and can just revert but in case this is your dev box use the Windows SC command to recreate the service so you can get the uninstall to work for now.
If you really want to do this right, you want to do something like this:
Augmenting InstallShield using Windows Installer XML - Windows Services
The same concept applies you'll just be adding the WiX merge module to your VDPROJ installer.
In my visual studio asp.net mvc applications I have 4 build configurations; one is to use IIS as the web server, which requires "run as administrator" when running visual studio.
So I ran as admin and created some new files. I have a multi-project template that I use for all my web applications. So I copied the new files from the project I was using back to my template project because they would be useful for all my projects, but didn't think about the "run as administrator" thing.
So now when I create a new project from my template and try to run the asp.net development web server nothing happens, but when a run as administrator the web server loads everything with no problems.
So my question is how can I remove the "run as administrator" requirements from all the files and folders, and I really don't know which files were added, there were many? I have to remove the administrator requirement because many people maintain the code besides me after its in production. Do I need to just recreate the entire project template?
I am using VS 2008 sp1, Windows 7 RC
The Run As Administrator requirement for VS is based on it requiring access to IIS, if I remember correctly, not the files themselves.
People on other machines that don't have this level of UAC protection, say Windows XP, should not have this problem.
The problem is very likely that some of the files are owned by an administrative user and cannot be overwritten by non-administrative users. The ACLs on the files likely need to be updated. One way to do this is to right-click Properties on every file, go to the security tab, and add the appropriate users/groups with the appropriate permissions to each file (probably try to match the files that already exist and have correct permissions).
There is a command line tool called CACLS (more info here and here) that can do this much more quickly, but it's non-trivial and you don't want to screw it up. You would run CACLS as the owner of the directory or the administrator to grant permissions to non-administrators.
Here's an example that gives user "Michael" full control to the SQL Server data directory and all subdirectories and files:
CACLS C:\SQLData\MSSQL$INSTANCE1 /T /E /G Michael:F
Please note that I have no experience with Windows 7. ACLs have been around since the first version of Windows NT and I'm assuming nothing changed radically in Windows 7.