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We are using TFVC version control in two projects, hosted in Azure Devops cloud.
Today, we have started getting an error message "It's not possible to operate with deprecated policies, please see Azure DevOps blog for more information. https://aka.ms/tfvc-policy-blogpost", however when I, or our other two admins, try to change the policies in visual studio, the obsolete policies do not show up, and adding new policies don't save changes. None of our developers are able to check in code.
We do not have any custom checkin policies, the only two we use are to ensure a workitem is linked and changesets have a message. We have looked through the settings in the devops portal, but haven't found anything related to checkin policies. How can we disable the deprecated policies?
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Having exact same issue starting today
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We have developers who are dead in the water at the moment because of this and the solution given at the URL in the error message is useless because it too uses deprecated SOAP calls instead of REST calls to the TFVC API. Could someone at Microsoft please let us know how to fix this?
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Ditto! We have developers who are dead in the water at the moment because of this and the solution given at the URL in the error message is useless because it too uses deprecated SOAP calls instead of REST calls to the TFVC API. Could someone at Microsoft please let us know how to fix this?
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Hi, I am getting the same message to check-in files on DevOps Azure - TFVC one of the Project through Visual Studio 2015 BUT able to check in files in other projects with same DevOps and Visual Studio 2015
The projects that continue to work probably aren't using the same policies as the one you're having problems with. Try executing that tool I posted the URL to on github on the project that isn't working.
I have been able to get the code to work with a few modifications, but I'm unable to upload the solution here. Here's the github link: https://github.com/wpfeffer/Obsolete-Policy-Remover
Hi Wayne, you just made my week. We downloaded your github project and edited our organization and project name, compiled the project and ran it and it fixed our issue. Noticed your company name in the AssemblyInfo.cs file and knew we were in good hands. We purchased CCH SureTax and CCH SureAddress for our D365FO implementation and are very pleased with the product. Thank you for your quick response.
Thank you.
This fixed it for us! Really appreciate it.
Thank you, all fixed for me
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Hi All can anyone explain me the steps to solve it please if possible, any screen shot
Download the code from github, there are two variables near the top of the Program.cs file that you will need to change their values, compile it, and run it and it will remove the policies.
Thankyou Wayne we are finding issue for installing the nuget packages, as the solution does not contain packages folder. Can you please help.
the packages manifest should be enough for Visual Studio to know what to pull in. I cannot upload the packages folder to github.
Thankyou very much for your support we are able to solve the issue