We're trying to work on an upgrade from TFS 2010 to 2012. We have all new hardware for the new servers and so we went with a migration and upgrade. Our SharePoint server is configured with TFS extensions. The TFS 2012 installation went well and TFSRestore worked without error and TFSConfig import worked without error. All of the project portal sites (ex. https://projects.example.com/sites/MyProject) are available and navigable by URL.
We can browse to projects in Team Explorer and go to to http://tfs.example.com:8080/tfs/DefaultCollection/MyProject. But there's no "Go to project portal" link in the project site, and the project's portal settings don't have a url listed there.
Question 1: Are my project portal settings really gone?
Question 2: Is there a way to restore these programmatically?
We found out some interesting things over the past day. The Upgrade Guidance from the ALM Rangers seemed to indicate that SQL Server 2005 couldn't be used in an in-place upgrade, so we went with the manual backup/restore/tfsconfig import I mentioned in the question.
One of our DBAs looked at the 2005 databases and asked, "why not just migrate these to 2008 R2 and run the Upgrade option from the TFS installer?" We went through this and the wizard converted all our projects and maintained their portal URL without issue.
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After my recent upgrade to Visual Studio 2019 (?) on Mac, I am unable to connect to my TFS server using the TFS Source Control extension.
My current setup:
Visual Studio for Mac, version 8.0.3.14
Source Control Extension:
Team Foundation Version Control for TFS and Azure DevOps Version
0.4.4.5
Steps: In Team Explorer, now I see two options:
1) Add Account
2) Add Server
When I try Add Account, a dialog pops up asking for my MS credentials - I enter them as usual, and then nothing further happens, no feedback whatsoever. Is this because it thinks this account is already "added"?
When I try Add Server, I enter my azure dev ops server name, then for user name/password I enter my MS account email and password. I leave domain empty. I get a message:
"Server already exists."
Here is what I expect to see (screenshot from VS 2017 on Windows):
Instead, nothing gets populated the way it normally does in Team Explorer: Pending changes, work items, settings - the entire panel is empty:
I do switch between Windows and Mac a lot, but if I remember correctly, everything worked fine from both workspaces before, so it probably happened when I upgraded to Visual Studio 8.0.3.14 on my Mac. Any ideas on how to fix this?
I wondered the same thing but without the update process in my back pocket... meaning I haven't written any C# in a while but I'm coming back to it. I set up a project with TFS in Azure Dev Ops on my pc, then went to check it out on my Mac and couldn't find any reference anywhere to TFS. Subversion and Git are in there, but no TFS. It took a little while to find it, but here's what I found. The short answer is they want you to use Git, not TFS as TFS is not supported in VS 2019 for Mac. The article does list work-arounds.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/mac/tf-version-control?view=vsmac-2019
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)
We have upgraded TFS2008 to 2013 on a new server and source control/workitem tracking is okay - we can use all that from within VS2013 Pro.
We have also upgraded Sharepoint (containing all the project documentation) to a new database server and using the TFS 2013 Adminisration Console we can see the Team Projects listed there.
However although from the VS2013 Team Exlorer we can add the team projects and open the 'web portal' for each team project, we cannot see any of the documents nor can we (seemingly) view in a browser the portal that in VS2008 shows the document libraries.
Are we missing something in the unfamiliar interface, or can anyone advise what the cause might be and how to fix it?
You need to "wire up" the Team Projects to the Sharepoint sites. It sounds like they have been detached through the order of the upgrade.
Sharepoint needs to be upgraded and available during the upgrade process or this happens
You can however easily wire them back up. In the Team Project in Visual Studio go to the Team Explorer and do "Settings|Portal".
You should have a dialog for wiring up The existing Sharepoint to the Team Project.
If you don't you may have Tbeen disconnected at the collection level. In which case you can open the TFS Administration Console and follow: http://nakedalm.com/integrate-sharepoint-2013-with-team-foundation-server-2013/
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.
I recently installed Visual Studio 2012 (RTM) and a project collection is missing from the Team Project Collections list in the "Connect to Team Foundation Server" modal window. The project collection is listed in VS 2008 and VS 2010. The collection state in TFS Administration Console shows as online. This is not a recently created collection it is over 2 years old with many projects. Share Point, Web Access, and Reporting Services sites all work fine. I have run Best Practices Analyzer and did not see anything that stood out although it contained a lot of information and I could have overlooked something. We are running TFS 2010 which was upgraded from TFS 2008.
Any help would be much appreciated.
I had a similar problem, where the project collection was listed, but as soon as I attempted to connect to it, the Team Explorer panel showed a 404 error message.
I resolved it by clearing the TFS cache folders under my user profile local app data folder.
In Windows Explorer, go to %LocalAppData%\Microsoft\Team Foundation. For my profile, there were 3 folders: 2.0, 3.0 and 4.0 (presumably corresponding to TFS 2008, 2010 and 2012) with a Cache folder under each. I cleared all 3 Cache folders and was then able to connect successfully.