I recently setup VSTS in my organization, would like to know the process of recovering the team project if it deleted.
Whom should we need to contact immediately if it has happened?
I went through this docs which was not clear whom to contact, what to do. But we can get data 30 days old only.
Thanks
The deleted VSTS project can not be recovered. More details, you can refer the document:
Caution
Deleting a project permanently removes data associated with that
project from the database. You cannot recover it later. Therefore, you
should save project data that you might want to access later.
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How can I see who has accessed files in a team project in TFS? Normal View History only shows you check ins. And exporting the Audit Log from TFS doesn't show you this info. I am interested in knowing who has made a read/get latest access on a specific team project.
This needs to be documented for my QA department. Are there any TFS SQL scripts that can show this info?
Sorry, we do not have this kind record of User's each operation such as read/get latest on a specific team project.
As you have mentioned history command will only displays the revision history of one or more files or folders. It only related to each changeset(checked in files).
Audit logs basically display some modify operation in TFS will also not include any access info at present.
Dig into sql database to query such information maybe a solution. However, highly not recommend to do this, since it may cause some potential risks of your database. And it will also lose support from Microsoft.
This should be a feature quest, you could submit it here. Our PM will kindly review any suggestion.
When trying to create a project in TFS, the CreateProject activity fails. However, the job exists and any attempts to create a project with the same name will fail due to duplicates. Even though the system is treating these failed creations of projects as legitimite and existing items, they are not available for use. If you view the web portal or source control explorer in TFS, the projects are not in the list.
Now that the root issue (the one that caused the activities to fail) is fixed, I want to delete these so I can recreate them. Since the projects don't show up in the web client, I can't delete them, and the delete option in the management console isn't available for projects with a blank State. Furthermore, every time I attempt to "Rerun Job", it just tells me that I can't. There's no descriptor as to why I can't.
Is there a way I can manually remove these project entries from the source of data without damaging the rest of the system? Or are there supported means for overcoming such an obstacle?
You can use the TFSDeleteProject utility to destroy the project i.e. get rid of all the data remnants of deleted project.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/vsts/tfs-server/command-line/tfsdeleteproject-cmd
PS: Please use it with caution as you can do quite a bit of damage if you are not careful.
We have a project which cannot be removed completely. We use TFS API output all the projects and their size and we find a project which we cannot see it on the web or VS. The project is very big(more than 200G). We try to delete it, but met some problems. I tried to remove it with the command "TFSDeleteproject ..." and got the error message as bellow.
"The team project could not be deleted. Either the delete operation failed, or project creation failed but partially-created project could not be deleted. Review the previous entries in this log for details. The team project has been taken offline and remains in a non-operational state. It is not accessible to Team Explorer. To complete the deletion, address the errors noted in this log, and then attempt deleting the project again."
Is there any other way to remove the project? Any advice is welcomed.
Thanks,
I think You read Delete a team project with TFSDeleteProjec guide.
There is even a description on how to Verify Project Deletion.
In addition I think main space occupation can be related on version control files, if this is Your case you can use TFS Destroy command to destroy, or permanently delete, version-controlled files from Team Foundation version control and related changeset history.
If you not like command line, I suggest to use TFS Source Control Explorer Extensionthat integrate destroy in source control advanced right click menu.
I am currently trying to solve an issue with our current on-premise TFS 2010 Server where I have 2 collections and both of my project collections were set to offline due to some tinkering with trying to upgrade to on-premise TFS 2015.
Whenever I try to activate the desired collection, I am getting the following error:
TF253021:The following team project is duplicated in at least two team
project collections: ProjectName. The collection cannot start while
the duplication exists. You must delete this project from all but one
of the collections before the collection can be started. The project
exists in the following collections: CollectionA, CollectionB.
I also had a look at each of their settings, and apparently the database connection string for both collections are pointing towards the same SQL Server instance and the same database. Both collections also have the same number and names of all team projects too.
I'm thinking of deleting one of the collection and its projects, but I fear that if I do it, it may delete the same collection and settings for the second project collection that I'm trying to set online.
I'm wondering if anybody has encountered this issue and what steps have he/she has done to fix it.
Many thanks!
You've gotten yourself in a remarkable situation, which may need Microsoft support to chime in. Even with creative backups I'd be unsure whether you'd get yourself in an unsupported end-situation.
If you have a backup of the whole situation before you started this experiment, I'd recommend going back to that.
You may find yourself in a catch-22 situation, since TFS 2010 has passed it's support lifecycle. Mentioning it happened while preparing for a TFS 2015 upgrade may convince them.
You can find the contact details here:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/contactus/
I have a TFS 2015 installation where we have a rather big number of projects. Currently there are old projects, that aren't used anymore but need to stay available as an archive (read only).
I'd like to make a workspace or something in TFS so that these projects normally don't come up in the normal view.
One way I found out is to set the TFS offline, make a copy of the database, bring the copy of the database online and then delete all projects that are still active and rename it. After that bring back online the original database and delete all archived projects.
This can be done once. Maybe once a year, but it will result in a large number of databases. This will make it worse than leaving the inactive projects in the workspace.
Does anyone have better idea? Or: What do you do with old projects?
First, there currently is no archiving function on TFS. However you can use something else as a workaround. To do this, you can either create a project designated as archived that you then have to assign permissions to and so on or move the project into another collection using the TFS Integration Toolkit.
Set the Read permission to Deny of contributor group will hidden the collection to come up in the normal view.
Below are some related blogs for your reference:
How to: Archive Team Foundation Server Team Projects
completely archive a TFS2012 project
Moreover, there has been a feature request in UserVoice, you can also vote up it to get more attention.
The process you are using (cloning a collection) would be the only method to achieve an archive as you describe it.
I would start by understanding why you have so many projects! Prefer larger Team Projects that contain many Products, Projects, Teams that are easier to manage.