Hi we are working in Team Foundation Server 2015, today I was trying to open a backlog item (yesterday I did it without any problem) but I got this error message "RecursionLimit exceeded ", then I noticed all backlog items have the same problem, what should I do to avoid it? Is there any limit configuration? Backlog item message error
You could use below ways to narrow down the issue:
Use another user account to see if the issue related to permission
Clear IE cache and try it again
Use another browser such as chrome instead of IE
Clear TFS cache
Try to use your account in another machine
At the end we resolved by removing some pools we have added recently.
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I am using VSTS for source control and I get this error (title) when I try to check code in.
How do I fix this issue? This impedes checking code in.
It somehow seems to be related to file size. The file that's failing is 9MBs. I find that peculiar since before I was able to check in a 3GB file (I since deleted it though). I am able to upload hundreds of megs in smaller files, too.
What could be the issue?
Error message on checkin
Thank you.
According the error message, the connection to the server was made but since the service was not available on machine, then the sever canceled the request.
You could try below ways to narrow down the issue:
First check the event view on the client machine, if there are some
related error info.
Check if you have set some checkin policies to restrict that.
Check another team project in some collection and different team
project collection, to check if they have the same issue.
Try to use another account to check in the changes.
Try to use your account to check in codes on another client machine. If the
issue only occurs on your machine, you may need to clear TFS and VS
cache which may do the trick.
Try to create a new workspace and map the source to a new location on your client machine, then try it again.
If you are using Window Server 2008R2. Just try to Apply the
HotFix and try the workaround.
I've got an issue where users that are disabled in Active Directory are still appearing in a Team Project Collection in Team Foundation Server 2013. This is a problem because any projects that are within the collection have these users inherited and are visible when assigning work items, etc.
These users in the screenshot below are all disabled and none of which are a part of any group or groups on TFS.
Specifically these users:
Kumar
Carl
Mishra
Bertram
Shah
Rajendran
Arora
It would also be nice to hide these users:
Network Service
Sharepoint account
Local Server Account (******-DEV1$)
I have tried the following:
Removing [Built-In]\Administrators group as per instructions here: https://stackoverflow.com/a/15640409/559988
Clearing the TFS data cache and restarting IIS as per instructions here: https://social.msdn.microsoft.com/Forums/vstudio/en-US/31487b77-8a1a-4b1f-8cdb-8f3528a3a389/tfs-2013-user-management
Verified the users are disabled in Active Directory
Verified the disabled users are not apart of any groups in Active Directory
Verified Active Directory sync is working (added a new user and it appeared just fine).
Has anyone else had this issue with disabled users appearing in TFS 2013 or know how to resolve it?
Thank you
This phenomenon is correct. The disabled user in Active Directory will still appear in TFS. Since these users are imported from AD, and belong windows group, so you can't delete these from security page. TFS server will automatically sync from the AD.
You may need to manually delete the users instead of disable the users in Active Directory .
Update
You can't hide the user in security. If you are get annoyed with these users when assigning work items. You can filter the user which you want to display in work item drop list. Please see my answer in this question: TFS-2015 limiting user list for detailed step.
After trying everything in Patrick's post above I am unable to resolve this issue.
This issue also remains unresolved in a similar post here: How do I remove a user from tfs?
The only way I was able to partially-resolve this was by upgrading from TFS 2013 to TFS 2015. The users still appear in the Project Collection users group, but no longer appear in the Team Project as options for work items, etc.
It's unclear why this is the way it is.
Trying to use OpsHub (free version) to migrate from on-prem TFS to VSTS. It is failing on a work item with the following error:
com.opshub.exceptions.eai.EAITFSPollerException: OpsHub-012310: Error
occurred in getting link/attachment information for WorkItem 46906
Revision 1. Caused By OH-TFS-Connector-0051: Operation failed
getLinkInformation. Server Error : TF26198: The work item does not
exist, or you do not have permission to access it.
I am able to access the work item. I did see the work item had 3 associated work items and I verified I could open all of those as well.
Any suggestions? I did get this with a few other work items and I purged them. I would like to know the cause as I anticipate running into this issue again and the process of manually removing the work items is costly as I do not have a list of all the problem work items. I have to resume the migration and wait for it to error.
Update: I have been able to identify the culprit. This work item is linked to another work item in a different project. Surprisingly I can't see that item even though I have collection admin. I'll keep working on it. I know the linked work item exists.
As Justin confirmed himself, the issue was Access Permission. The user through which the migration was running, could access the WIT in question and it's links. But could not access the linked WIT (which was from another project). Providing the permission to the migration user, by making him the 'Project Collection Administrator' solved the issue.
I have installed TFS 2012 Express on my computer but I can't get TFS web access portal to work. If I try to view a page with work items I get error:
TF400893: Team Foundation Server services are not available.
This is most likely caused by a network error.
Please check your connection and try again.
It's weird because other parts of the TFS web portal works (e.g. source) so I don't think it's network error. If I connect to the TFS server from Visual Studio everything is working, so I suppose TFS service is running.
I tried to reinstall TFS, but it didn't help :-(
Any ideas what can be wrong?
Try an other browser. I have used Opera and got the error. Using IE should work.
Try changing the account from Applicaiton Tier on TFS Administration Console to your current domain and user info. The default value is NT AUTHORITY.
You should check for any firewalls or other IPS devices between the browser and the application tier for SQL injection attack rules. WIQL being sent from the browser in the AJAX request looks far too much like regular SQL so gets canned by such rules.
As we were experiencing this issue where I work, I decided to take a network packet capture of the browser traffic on a machine experiencing the problem. This yielded a whole bunch of TCP retransmits on the packet containing the plain-text WIQL. Upon presenting this evidence to the company's network team, they located the offending IPS rule which was triggering on these packets, disabled it for packets targeting the TFS Application tier and the problem was solved.
I just got the same error while adding a comment to a work item which included a SQL Statement to drop some tables.
After changing my language to not include explicit T-SQL "DROP TABLE" syntax, I was able to add the comment. My guess is something trying to prevent SQL injection.
We're switching over to Team Foundation for our version control, and I have to learn it and set it up. Our IT guy did the installation of the both the data tier and the app tier, and he is of course convinced that it's right. However when i log in as tfssetup and try to create a new project, i get the error:
Error
Insufficient permissions to create a new SQL Server Reporting Services at tsttfsapp1.
Explanation
The permissions granted your user name and ID on the SQL Server Reporting Services at tsttfsapp1 do not allow you create a new project. You must be granted specific permission by the server administrator.
User Action
Contact the Administrator for the SQL Server Reporting Services at tsttfsapp1 and ask that the permission "Content Manager" be added to your user account
So i tried to log in to http://servername/Reports_TFS it asks for the credentials but doesn't accept them. Even stranger when i try to access it from a computer and user that aren't on the same domain as the app tier server, it doesn't ask for credentials and lets me right in. As far as i know the default name of the site should be Reports, not Reports_TFS is it possible that his renaming of that could be causing the problem?
tfssetup is definitely a "Content Manager" as far as i can tell, so i don't understand why we are getting this problem. Also any recommendation for good websites or books that can take a complete beginner and help me become an expert in 3 weeks (what's left of the 6 week time frame allowed for me to learn) would be appreciated.
Thanks
I'm not sure this will help, but we had this error at my place of work on our 2005 TFS server. We opened a ticket with Microsoft and sent them our TFS database. They were able to replicate the issue with the copy of the database. Somehow the TFS database had gotten into an invalid state, but they weren't able to determine how this happened or how to fix it. Unfortunately, this error kept us from being able to upgrade the server to TFS 2008 too. We ended up getting latest of all the code and adding it to source control on a new install of TFS. What a pain.
OK so it turns out it was only a problem because I was using a 2005 client with a 2008 server. A 2008 client has no problem creating a project on the 2008 server, but the 2005 client is not able to create a project on a 2008 server.