Update TFS 2013 to TFS2015 Test Managet Could not connect - tfs

Web update our TFS2013 to TFS2015, most features worked well, but Test Manager could not connect to TFS2015,when create connection, no project collection could be found on server, as shown below:
But On web we can open test plans and
We can open Test Manager from this link:
I searched from MSDN about this problem, and did what they say in that article, but did not resolve my problem.

In order to narrow down the issue, please check items below:
Check whether the account to connect to TFS in MTM is the same as the account used on web access. Make sure you are using the same account.
Try to install MTM on TFS Application Tier machine, and connect TFS, to see whether you can connect it. In this way, you can find out the issue is from TFS side or MTM side.

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Test Manager (Azure Test Plans) not accessible from Visual Studio Market Place

I'm trying to install Test manager extension for my TFS 2015. I'm admin and was able to get/download Delta copy extension from marketplace without any issue but not able install Test manager. It says -
We did not find an organization for which you are an owner or a member.
I've tried using multiple browsers also.
Test manager provision can be used directly in TFS 2015. Please set/change access levels for your account to Advanced. I suppose currently your account might be listed as basic, check your access level as follows:
http://yourserver:8080/tfs/_admin/_licenses
Change the access to advanced, you are automatically provided/entitled with Test manager provision. I found this article over here

Upgrade to TFS 2015.3 successful, but portal unavailable

Today we have installed update 3 to our existing TFS 2015.2 server. The offline installation ran for about an hour and completed succesfully. However when trying to reach the portal site, nothing shows up (well a 404 page shows up actually).
When opening the Team Foundation Server Administration Console, it correctly displays the expected product version: 14.102.25423.0 (Tfs2015.Update3). However when I click on 'Application Tier', it displays the text:
This feature has been installed but needs to be configured. Click on
Configure Installed Features to begin initial configuration.
This same text is shown on many other administrative pages. Is this the cause of the portal missing? When I configure these features again, will it not erase our current team projects, history, build definitions and work items?
Are there any better ways to troubleshoot why the portal is missing?
Thanks in advance for any guidance.
Yes, you are right. After the upgrade, the configuration is needed to make sure the normal operation of TFS server. It will not erase your current team projects, history, build definitions and work items. There are just some settings will not effect your Database. Certainly, it's also important to keep good backup habits. After all, we didn't have a foolproof thing in the world.
After you upgrade TFS to 2015, each team project may need to be
configured to use some of the new features in TFS 2015. You don't have
to do this immediately, but those features aren't available in that
team project until they're configured. Depending on the team project,
you'll use some combination of the Configure Features wizard that
appears on the Work page and some manual configuration.
Source Link: Upgrade your deployment to the latest version of TFS
For your situation, there maybe some other error cause it. However, still suggest you to finish the configuration first. If it's still not work, then you can try below ways to narrow down the issue:
Check the Event View in the server to see whether there are some
related info
Check the configuration logs (Team Foundation Server Administration
Console-Logs or browser the folder in the server
C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Team Foundation\Server Configuration\Logs)

Connect TeamCity to Visual Studio Online

I'm trying to migrate from on-premises TFS to Visual Studio Online. We have quite elaborate TeamCity build process that we don't want to migrate away from, so having TeamCity working with VSO would be ideal.
I've created alternative user credentials (as per this article) and using these credentials in TeamCity. But when I create new VCS in TeamCity, I get connection error:
TF30063: You are not authorized to access https://myproject.visualstudio.com/DefaultCollection/MyProject
I've tried my actual credentials (not alternative ones) but nothing changed - same error.
Also I've tried using alternative credentials with tf command line tool and could not enter alternative credentials - a window popped up, asking me for my LiveId.
Any idea how to fix this?
p.s. this is how TeamCity configuration look like:
To connect to Visual Studio Online you indeed need to enable alternate credentials on the account you'll use for Team City. Ensure that at least Team Explorer 2012 and update 4 is installed on the Team City server, install the whole Visual Studio 2012 incl Update 4. Team City requires at least update 2, but Microsoft only supports Visual Studio 2012 RTM and the latest update (which is update 4).
Then in the connection screen use the following information:
Repository URL: https://myaccount.visualstudio.com/DefaultCollection
Username: ##LIVEID##\your.email#live.com // Your visual Studio Online User Name, must match your LiveId.
Password: ********* // The password you setup for the alternate credentials.
You can also use the VSO Service Account credentials instead of using Alternate Credentials.
Then in your VCS Root configuration map your TFVC root in the following way:
Root: $/MyProject/Path/To/Branch/Root
Check out this post on the Jetbrains Confluence site for more details.
This has changed lately and the password needs to be generated.
Navigate to your site at https://[your project].visualstudio.com/_details/security/tokens
And generate a personal access token. And use it for password in your teamcity vcs root configuration. Username is your email.
https://streamlined.no/2016/09/19/connecting-teamcity-10-vcs-root-visual-studio-team-services/
Note: TeamCity 10 does not need the ##LIVE## workaround anymore.
I had the same problem today. The TC instance which was working fine last week mysteriously could not connect to any VCS Roots after the weekend. All VCS roots are git repos in visual studio online.
The Test Connection was failing and changing to known working user accounts still failed.
Restarting the TC service also had no impact on the problem. In the end, rebooting the whole TC Server fixed the issue. Hopefully this will help someone else out.
Well, I could not use Alternate credentials as I use it in many build configurations and it was set up to poll every 60 seconds. So I had to do much manual work to fix it up. Instead, I generated a Personal Access Token and in the Team City VCS setup for Git I entered "username" as the username and pasted the PAT into the password. That worked much better and more stable than Alternate credentials, which kept getting disabled because of background polling on behalf of Team City.

Can I use MTM from VS2012 with visualstudio.com's TFS?

I'm trying to create some MTM coded ui tests and hook it up to my visualstudio.com tfs instance. I haven't had any luck getting it to connect. Is it possible to use microsoft's cloud tfs or azure of some sort rather than installing TFS on my intranet?
MTM connects to Team Foundation Service just fine. From your comment it looks like you're trying to connect via http:// not https://
Use https://imaginarydevelopment.visualstudio.com and you should connect up just fine (note that you don't need to specify the project collection either)

team foundation server (TFS) in the cloud not able to delete / adjust mapping

I tried out the TFS Service with a project of mine. After I experienced some problems (probably misuse) I used VSUnbindSourceControl.exe (see: http://vsunbindsourcecc.codeplex.com/) to detach the project (locally) from the TFS, but it looks as if on the server side, the project that was uploaded, is still bound to my computer.
See image:
and the error message in the output window:
Failed To Create Mapping
The working folder G:\Quant tool DotNet4 is already in use by the workspace USER-PC;myemail# somedomain dot com on computer USER-PC.
(I now use a different email address than the one above)
I've tried to delete the project from the server via the Source Control Explorer in VS, but the delete option is disabled. (also when I login with mldz at hotmail dot com.
I was also not able to delete the project or change it's settings via the TFS web interface.
Anyone experience with this problem and how to solve it with the new TFS in the cloud? i saw some similar problems with a normal TFS and some solutions could be done via the the team foundation administration tool, but that cannot be applied to the TFS in the cloud (AFAIK)
Some info about trying to install TFS integration tool
Hi,
I use VS2012 express and although I installed vs_teamexplorer.exe,
I'm not able to install Microsoft Team Foundation Server Integration Tool.
Already restarted the computer after installation and tried again. Doesn't work. Missing something?
regards,
Matthijs
You can use the same admin tools for tfs.visualstudio. See examples. At end of http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/jj130558.aspx article which show deletion of workspaces, for example.

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