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.
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While attempting Branch operation from within VS I get the error message TFS246017: Team Foundation Server could not connect to the database. Verify that the instance is specified correctly, that the server that is hosting the database is operational, and that network problems are not blocking communication with the server. (The error message box looks like the one in this question).
I logged on to the TFS virtual machine. In event viewer I see a warnning with with the same message as above + Process Name: w3wp, User: domain\MyUser. The IIS TFS site is started.
I opened the TFS console on the TFS machine using both domain\MyUser and domain\tfssetup (this is the user running the Visual Studio Team Foundation Background Job agent service), the console opens successfully. Both users appear in the Administration Console Users list. I did reapply account for both users. I also did update password for domain\MyUser. It shows a connection string with Datasource and Initial Catalog. I logged in to the DB machine, opened SQLSERVER users: the tfssetup user is there with sysadmin and owner of relevant instances. I also added the domain\MyUser and added admin privileges (but the error persists).
I also installed SSMS on TFS machine & was able to connect to DB server using both domain\MyUser and domain\tfssetup and view tables.
This error did not happen in the past. This error didn't happen when branching a different location in the source control ($/Project1/Main vs $/Project2/Main) beforehand. The Source Control Explorer appears to show OK (so TFS is working). Using Visual Studio 2013. TFS 2017. AFAIK Virtual Machines were not moved, IP address were not changed. Using vSphere it seems there is enough disk space for both TFS and DB machines. The error appears after ~4 seconds.
What else can be tried?
Looking in the TFS SQLSERVER log there was a "SERVER ASSERTION" error and this was the cause for the TFS generic error.
In my case the error was very similiar to the one here. CHECKDB and updating to the latest service pack didn't help. What helped was changing the recovery mode to full as recommended in that thread.
after a servercrash we installed TFS on a new server. I used Application Tier only for
restoring the databases, and in the Team Foundation Express Administration Console everything shows up.
When on the server I surf to the URL I get a Windows login screen and after entering credentials it proceeds to the website.
However, if I try this from an PC, the URL is not reachable.
I've checked the firewall (even disabled it for test), put port 8080 is added.
I gues something is wrong with the authentication, hence the Windows login screen, but fail to find.
Anyone ideas?
I use TFS Express 2012.4 on Server 2019
Since you are able to access http://localhost:8080/tfs url and work properly.
This tell you TFS is up and running. So issue should not related to IIS side.
Try to disable loopback by creating registry key under the
location
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\DisableLoopbackCheck
and assigned the value “1”.
Details follow this blog.
If you do not want to disable your firewall during daily usage. Make sure Port 8080 is open in Windows firewall.
Also take a look at this similar issue: TFS url with server name is not working
I have installed and configured Team Foundation Server 2015 Update 3 in one of our server a few weeks ago.
All was going well until the pc unexpectedly was shut down due to electrical problem. After turning on again we now get:
Error 500 internal server error.
Tried to access the web server and got the HTTP Error
403.14 - Forbidden.
TFS administration console seems fine. I'm not sure where to look next. Help would be greatly appreciated.
First, please check your Event View on your TFS server machine to see if there are more detail info or error message for trouble shooting.
For Error 500 internal server error. There's no much value for now.
For 403.14-Forbidden error, this may related to IIS server. Suggest you try to restart the TFS applicaton on IIS. And also clean all cache of TFS server, located at%LOCALAPPDATA%\Microsoft\Team Foundation\7.0\Cache
To narrow down the issue, you could also use Visual Studio to connect TFS server. If this works, suggest you to clear IE cache and try again.
Besides, since the PC unexpectedly shut down, please also check if the related TFS service started properly, if not manually start them.
In case someone else runs across this issue, we had the same problem and it turned out to be the system time on our TFS SQL Server had gotten out of sync. It was off by a number of hours. When I reset the time to be correct, I was able to connect to the TFS instance again without issue.
I got this error when I was migrating from TFS 2013 to AzureDevops Server 2020 using XAML Build. The error on Event Viewer from Application Tier Server was "Exception Message: The protocol binding ':443:.domain.com.br' is not valid for 'https'. This might be because the port number is out of range. (type UriFormatException)". I adjusted on IIS the https bindings to accept requests from IP Server.
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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.
When I trying to access to list of my project from TFS, the error message as following prompting out
TF31001: Team Foundation cannot retrieve the list of team projects from Team Foundation Server 10.0.80.50. The Team Foundation Server returned the following error: Error creating the Web Proxy specified in the 'system.net/defaultProxy' configuration section..
Does anyone facing this problem before and how do you solve it?
Thanks in advance
I got the same error out of sudden. Spent some time with my colleagues playing with different ways of launching Visual Studio 2008 and its configuration settings. I have found a couple of ways to bypass this error, although still don’t know what the original cause is. 1) Start VS with command line like this: devenv.exe /resetaddin. 2) Comment out the system.net setting within the devenv.exe.config. Like this:
<system.net>
<!-- <settings>
<ipv6 enabled="true"/>
</settings>
-->
</system.net>
They both work. I found the second option is more continent. Without this ipv6 setting I am not sure what else may be affected. But, at least I can make an emergency connection to my TFS server to check-in some files.
Team Explorer connects via web service to TFS. It sounds like you have a config issue with the proxy settings in IE that is preventing you from connecting to your server.
Try navigating to one of the web services directly using IE (e.g. http://yourtfsservername:8080/Services/v1.0/ServerStatus.asmx) and see if you get an error. If so, check your proxy settings - if they look OK, see if you can exclude the TFS server from being accessed via the proxy and go direct instead.
John Cheng's answer was so helpful. I changed the devenv.exe.config file like he mentioned and was able to connect to TFS. Before that, I had even tried re-installing Team Explorer to no benefit.